Hancock County GaArchives Cemeteries.....Lockhart Hill Cemetery
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This from the “History of Ellaville’s William David and Emma
Delulah Battle Sears and Their Descendants.”   It was
written by Lynward Sears Lightner and is dated 1982-1985. 

Account of visit of Adelle Lockhart.

In June 1964, the "one half acre around the graveyard which
is hereby excepted and reserved" as mentioned in an existing
deed, was located and photographed.  We were directed in
Sparta to drive to Culverton and turn toward Mayfield and
Powelton and there make inquires.  This led us to country
roads without signs and were were obliged to make several
stops to ask directions.  Each time we were directed toward
"Lockhart Hill".  Each time we asked the origin of the name
of Lockhart Hill, we were told "it has always just been
called Lockhart Hill".  Finally we were there. We drove down
the long hill, the road narrow and tree shaded. At the foot
of the hill ran a creek which empties into the Ogeechee
River somewhere to the east. We could see a negro family
hoeing cotton in a nearby field and stopped again to inquire
about the graveyard.  The man, Homer Butts, told us that he
had lived his life in that part of the county and that he
knew of the graveyard but was afraid that we would be unable
to find it from directions and volunteered to take us there.
We drove a few hundred yards further down the road, through
the yard of a delapidated house where a negro family lived,
stopped our car and walked about a quarter of a mile into
the woods. There, hidden from the word, was an enclosure,
perhaps forty feet square, built of massive cut granit about
two fee thick and four-an-a-half feet high. Inside the
enclosure could be seen the remnants of tombstones. Trees
and underbrush had grown so thickly inside the heavey walls
that it was impossible for anyone to get close enough to
examine the markers for any engraving that may have
remained. It is a lovely spot, quiet and secluded. We came
away satisfied that we had found the last resting place of
the Lockhart family of Hancock County, Georgia -- its
existence known to but a few, their descendants having moved
away more than a hundred years ago. Only the name, "Lockhart
Hill" remains as a monument to these Georgia pioneers, and
this, only "because it has always been called "Lockhart
Hill".

[Probably these are the Richard and Mary Pope Lockhart
(1750-1841) descendants. Some of these Lockhart children
settled in Jones County]