FLOYD COUNTY, GA - Cemetery Wax Community ***************** 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: Robin Smith" Wax Community Cemetery Located behind New Vision Extended Hand Church 554 Harmony Rd Wax, Silver Creek, Rome, Floyd CO. Georgia. This roughly translates to the Wax neighborhood of the Silver Creek Community, part of the city of Rome in Floyd County Georgia These tombstones were surveyed the morning of January 30, 2007 by Robin Smith, an avidly searching descendent - rsmith0112@hotmail.com Digital pictures are also available. The following three stones were found in the Barrett Family Plot All notes in parentheses are my own contribution and not part of the tombstone Arthur Alfred Barrett Father Sep 17, 1874 Feb 26, 1961 (Son of Matthew Kellogg and Sarah Caroline Barrett and husband of Lucy Vaughan Barrett - first census record shows birth as 1876) Edith Webb Barrett 1929 - 1935 (Daughter of John C and Thelma Barrett Webb - grandaughter of Arthur Alfred and Lucy Vaughan Barrett) Lucy Vaughan Barrett Mother July 6, 1882 Oct 29, 1959 (Daughter of James Isaac and Frances Rebecca Whitaker Vaughan and wife of Arthur Alfred Barrett) The following eleven stones were found in the Vaughan family plot. All notes in parentheses are my own contribution and not part of the tombstone Katie Vaughan Infant Daughter of J.I. and F.R. Vaughan Born Jan 21, 1887 Died Aug 4, 1887 God takes the life He gave W.M. Whittaker 1859 - 1940 Judson C. Vaughan Son of James I and Fannie R. Vaughan Feb 11, 1885 Mar 1, 1910 Asleep An honest man is the noblest work of God Alton Vaughan Infant Son of J.I. and F.R. Vaughan Born Jan 10, 1905 Died Feb 7, 1906 Weep not he is at rest Carrie Ruth Vaughan Dau of James I and Fannie R Vaughan Dec 23, 1889 Aug 18, 1910 Jesus has come and borne her home James P Vaughan May 26, 1888 Feb 27, 1914 Come Ye Blessed Although he sleeps his memory doth live (Son of James Isaac and France Rebecca Whitaker Vaughan - listed as Porter in 1900 census) J. David Vaughan B.S.M.D. Feb 14, 1892 Jun 23, 1917 Was educated from The National University of Art & Science of St. Louis, MO 1916 (Son of James Isaac and Frabces Rebecca Whitaker Vaughan - Listed as David or David J in census records) James I. Vaughan Feb 1, 1860 Jun 16, 1931 (Son of David and Lucy Ann Edwards Vaughan - husband of Frances Rebecca Whitaker Vaughan) Frances R. Vaughan Dec 5, 1861 May 8, 1940 (Daugther of Fountain and Julina Drummond Whitaker - wife of James Isaac Vaughan) Fountain Whitaker Jan 4, 1831 Feb 23, 1914 A benefactor to many (Father of Frances Rebecca Whitaker Vaughan and husband to Julina Drummond Whitaker, Mary Dempsey Whitaker, and Caroline Bobo Whitaker) Carrie Bobo Wife of Fountain Whitaker In God we trust (no dates - may not be buried here)