Jackson County GaArchives Photo place.....Williamson Cemetery-Jackson Co. Georgia c.1999 ************************************************ 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: Larry Knowles http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00012.html#0002854 August 23, 2004, 9:11 pm Source: Williamson Cemetery Photo can be seen at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/jackson/photos/tombstones/williamson/gph882williams.jpg Image file size: 84.2 Kb The Williamson Cemetery-Jackson County GA This photo, I believe, shows the graves of John Jr. and Winney(Camp)Williamson of Jackson Co. The large oval-topped stones are completely obscure, and are identical; both being headstones! The lower one has been misplaced and should be located to the left of the upper one(near the "white spot" at middle-left). In this position it would probably indicate the grave of John Williamson Jr., with wife Winney on the right. These markers were likely placed shortly after Winney's death in 1873. Just off-picture to the left is the wrought-iron fence enclosure, and tombstone, of their bachelor son, Micajah Williamson. "Mike" ran the Williamson plantation for his father, who was more concerned with the mill. John Jr. had been deeded 350 acres by his father, Rev. Soldier John Williamson Sr., in August 1804, and had just completed a new mill in February, before his death on October 25, 1849. The older man had purchased 1150 acres in 1792(land then in Franklin Co.)and had probably come to Jackson Co. after it was formed in February 1796. John Sr. was a weaver and dyer, and perhaps started the mill on Curry(Little?)Creek. With a trade, good land, and many slaves, he became quite prosperous. A dispute over some weaving, however, led to an estrangement from wife Margaret(Lesley)"Peggy" Williamson. He admitted to being a "fractious man". She moved into the household of bachelor son, William Williamson. By 1821 to 1825, John Sr. had distributed land and slaves to his children; and about 1826 had moved to Butts Co., where he had won land in the 1821 Lottery(#250/8D.- then in Henry Co.). He is listed on the 1830 census there; age 80-90, with eight or nine slaves. He died there on October 9, 1831. Wife, Peggy died May 19, 1828, and is the earliest known adult buried in the Jackson Co. cemetery. The stones above John Jr. and Winney's graves are others of the "connection"; likely including Peggy Williamson's son, James Mitchell(from her first marriage) his wife Dorcus, and others. James Mitchell was listed in widow Winney Williamson's household in 1850. To the upper right of the photo is one of three vegetation-encrusted "burial mounds". A small aluminium plaque erroneously indentifies one or two of these brick enclosures as the graves of John and Winney. However, a wonderfully descriptive account of a visit to the cemetery with John Jr. in 1838 seems to dispute the plaque's location. It appears more likely that these are the graves of family matriarch, Peggy Williamson(1828); her bachelor son, William Williamson(1834); and daughter Sarah Moon(wife of Bolar Moon). The latter likely died shortly before the 1838 visit. Her son, John W. Moon told of the cemetery visit(quoting his uncle for many facts)in a deposition given in Olgethorpe Co. He was deposed regarding John Jr.'s estate in Jackson Co. The only other marked graves in the cemetery are those of John Jr.'s son, Andrew Jackson Williamson(and his daughter Mary E., wife of J. A Jarrett)on a promenient obelisk. See separate photos. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/jackson/photos/tombstones/williamson/gph882williams.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 3.8 Kb