Hancock County GaArchives Cemeteries.....Hitchcock Family Cemetery ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Archives by: "willray" The Hitchcock Family cemetery, Hancock County, Georgia Just inside the gate, hard to the left. Three concrete unmarked stones. Later, Franklin Hitchcock told us that these three unmarked graves are the three first children of Aunt Emma. Her fourth and only living child is Arthur, AKA Junior, who said that he was the smallest of the four children, and he weighed over eleven pounds at birth. Then there are two granite slabs: Martha Ann Hitchcock Dec. 20, 1845 Jan. 3, 1925 To her left: Mansy Hitchcock Nov 8 1860 Feb 16, 1922 Behind them are three raised crypts, brick with markers: A crypt with an obelisk with an urn on top marks both of the following graves: James Levi Aug 22, 1853 May 24, 1854 [illegible inscriptions on two sides] Sidney (?) Rochelle 1856 [His inscription, also virtually illegible, is on the fourth side of this marker] Franklin thinks these two children (James Levi and Sidney (?) Rochelle) are the children of William and Mary Ann Speights. . Levi is a Speights family name. Two large graves, both raised crypts with tall obelisks at the top: Mary Ann Jan 1, 1820 Nov. 24, 1874 “wife of William H. [M.?] Speights Beneath this stone Sorrow from - A saint doth rest [illegible] The sleeping dust awake and rise To meet the Savior in the skies And ever with him dwell above In mansions of eternal love” To the left: W. H. Speights Nov 16 1801 June 28, 1872 Masonic emblem engraved at top undecipherable funerary poetry In front of the Speights: Leon Speight Hitchcock Mar 1, 1901 Dec 4, 1918 [also funerary poem] Carrie B. Hitchcock Aug. 23, 1863 Jan 6, 1926 “Rest, Mother, rest In quiet sleep While loved ones In sorrow for you weep” Winfield J. Hitchcock Dec. 7, 1847 Aug. 12, 1910 “Will join thee in that heavenly land No more to take the parting hand” Last row; Winfield P. Hitchcock Oct. 15, 1916 Nov. 10, 1916 Irene P. Hitchcock Aug. 24, 1893 Mar. 17, 1935 [Willard J. Hitchcock’s first wife.] Willard J. Hitchcock Oct. 4, 1891 Mar. 16, 1958 [My grandmother’s brother or my great uncle.] Annie K. Hitchcock May 2, 1907 Oct. 27, 1999 [“Annie Kate” was Willard J. Hitchcock’s second wife and Mother to Franklin and Rigdon Hitchcock.] At back of Annie Kate: We are here on April 23, 2001, shortly after the funeral of Rebecca Hitchcock, Franklin’s granddaughter. One of a set of twins. Nothing from the funeral home to indicate birth and death dates, but we were told she was born In October of either 1999 or 2000. Born with heart and other birth defects. A surgery had already been done to correct a deviated septum. Hidden behind some shrubbery: Alva D. Hitchcock Sept. 1, 1881 April 9, 1934 Jessie A. Boyer July 4, 1887 Dec. 13, 1919 “wife of Alva D. Hitchcock”