Big Buckhead Baptist Church Cemetery Inscriptions Jenkins County, GA

BIG BUCKHEAD BAPTIST CHURCH CEMETERY
Jenkins County, Georgia

Location: On Big Buckhead Church Rd., directly across from church, 
approximately 25 yards into woods.  The cemetery is not well maintained.

Census taken February 1, 1998 by L.L. Ketchum

Historical: Big Buckhead Church, near Buckhead Creek, from which it 
derives its name, was probably organized before the Revolution by 
Matthew Moore, Baptist minister, whose loyalist sympathies led him 
to leave with the British.  The church was reconsituted Sept. 11, 1787 
with James Matthews, pastor, and Sanders Walker and Josiah Taylor acting 
with him as presbytery.  Four church buildings have stood on or near 
the present site. The first was log, followed, in 1807, by a white 
frame one.  A brick church was built in 1830. It was condemned and 
the present one was erected.  Here the Hephzibah Assn. was organized 
and plans to create Mercer Univ. proposed.   The area 
was the scene of fierce cavalry action during the Civil War.

Format is: No.    Name
           Dates
           Inscriptions/Notes

1 	Dr. Henry C. Hines
	Oct. 15, 1828-Jan. 15,1856	
	Asleep in Jesus; obelisk

2	Mary T. Sapp	
	June 4, 1797-May 17, 1856	
	She sleeps beside her only son

3	Caroline E. Jones		
	Died June 28, 1869 in the 42nd year of her age
	Daughter of William & Sarah Sapp

4	Batt Jones			
	11th September 1825-18th December 1862

5	Ann Everline Jackson
	Died Aug. 22, 1889 Aged 87 years & 7 months
	Joined the Baptist Church at this place Sept. 6th, 1834 and 
	lived a consistent member of the Church until death. 
	Asleep in Jesus blessed sleep From which none ever wakes to weep.

6	Middleton Thorn
	March 14, 1798-Dec. 15, 1858

7	Christian Schultz
	August [blank], 1847		
	Sacred to the memory of; A native of Prussia who departed this 
	life in Burke County In August, 1847, Having been for the last 
	thirty-three years A Citizen of Georgia. Honesty, Veracity and 
	Industry, were the leading traits of his Character. He died a 
	Stranger, in a strange land, but amidst kind Friends.
  	From a Georgia Historical Commission plaque erected in front of 
	the church.
  
Numbers 1-4 are enclosed by a wrought iron fence.


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