ELBERT COUNTY, GA - CEMETERY Herndon, Edward Family ***************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm *********************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: "Janice B. turner" All the following was surveyed by John M. Dillard who sent it to me with permission and a request that it be added to the Elbert Cemeteries. The Edward Herndon family cemetery was found, catalogued and photographed on November 1, 2006. It is located miles southwest of Van’s Creek Baptist Church at Ruckersville, Georgia.[1][1] This cemetery is on the southern side of Hulmes Chapel Road that leads off Ruckersville Road northwest of Elberton, Georgia. It is located to the rear of the Hart County Electric Membership Corporation electric substation facility on a knoll rising south from a stream. This cemetery contains five gravestones of identical size and materials which are now legible and in fair condition and which read as follows: Edward Herndon born May 6, 1768 died September 22, 1827 Ann Herndon born May 8, 1768, died April 11, 1845 Nancy Herndon born June 8, 1802, died October 27, 1820 Lucinda Herndon, born April 22, 1802, died October 27, 1820 Thomas R. Herndon born March 29, 1807, died October 16, 1821 The iron fence and gate mentioned by a visitor in 1977 are now missing. The cemetery is located in planted pine woods and is no longer maintained. Small trees are growing up in the gravesites. John William Baker’s History of Hart County, id. at page 264 states that this cemetery is located on the Edward Herndon home place. The Will of Dillard Herndon verifies this conclusion in referring to this cemetery as “on my plantation on Beaverdam Creek in said county where my father as well as myself lived the greater part of our lives, there are five graves, my fathers, my mothers, and the graves of two sisters and a brother who died in early youth.”[2][2] Dillard Herndon’s 1871 will required that his executors place suitable gravestones and an enclosure around this cemetery to be reserved in future deeds to the property if Dillard Herndon had not already provided for the same during his lifetime. Id. Dillard Herndon had purchased the Edward Herndon home place from his sisters on May 16, 1829.[3][3] ------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------- [4][1] This writer used the materials in the Elbert County Library in the Herndon File provided by Mrs. H. H. Wilcox dated May 23, 1977 to help locate this cemetery. [5][2] Will of Dillard Herndon, deceased Elbert County Will Book B 1861-1895 at page 173 in Item 3. [6][3] Elbert County Deed Book Y at Page 135 recorded on January 9, 1840.