JOHNSON COUNTY, GA - CEMETERIES   Samuel Williams Family

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Samuel Williams Family Cemetery 
Meeks, Johnson County, Georgia.



FIRST GRAVE
IN MEMORY OF MATILDA, WIFE OF SAMUEL WILLIAMS.  
BORN MCH. 8TH, 1818.  
DIED SEP.14,1900.
BORN BY ANGELS HANDS  AWAY TO A HOME OF PEACE AND ________.



SECOND GRAVE
Next to her grave is her husband Samuel Williams.
SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF S.  WILLIAMS--Masonic Synbol, 
BORN OCT 16TH., 1817 
DIED MAY 8, 1878.
 
THIRD GRAVE
HENRY RICHARD SON OF THOMAS AND LIEUIZA WILLIAMS.  
BORN SEPT 11, 1880, 
DIED NOV 3, 1880.

On the bottom half of this same tall headstone is
THOMAS JEFFERSON SON OF T AND L WILLIAMS, 
BORN JAN 17, 1883, 
DIED SEP 11, 1885.

On the other side of this same tall headstone is a beautiful pair of hands, 
inset in the stone about 6 inches and this under the hands---

NOW TAKE MY PARTING HAND, GOOD-BYE, MY FRIENDS GOOD BYE.  
DO MEET ME IN THAT BLESSED LAND WHERE WE SHALL NEVER DIE.

The other four are on cement slabs.  This one is not on a slab.



FOURTH GRAVE
IN MEMORY OF HENRY R WILLIAMS 
BORN SEP 11, 1880 & DIDE NOV-3, 1880.  



FIFTH GRAVE
IN MEMORY OF THOMAS J WILLIAMS   
BORN JAN 17
The bottom half of this headstone is gone.  We can't
see the year of birth or any of the date of death.  It
is almost like a slab of cement veneer about one inch
thick was used to write on.  The headstone is still on
the cememt slab, just bottom half of the top where the
writing is, is gone..



This is a beautiful little cemetery.  On a high rise in
the land with the graves under so many big pine trees,
and  the ground perfectly clean of everything except
pine needles.  Someone has kept it up for many many
years.  Sam Hall owned the land at one time because I
have a land deed where Sam sold the preperty to Melvin
Tanner Hall, his son, reserving one acre for the
Williams Cemetery. 


The last time I was there, January 2003, I was going to
go in from Jumpin Run Creek Road at the creek.   From
there it was only  3 or 4 minutes by car when my
brother and I went there in 1995.  Now all of the
timber has been cut and I understand a hunt club owns
the property.  There was a gate with a lock, so we will
need to get permission from someone in the hunt club.
Looks like we will need a sturdy truck or ATV. 


The land was owned by Samuel Williams when the graves
were put there.  On a deed I have a drawing of some
land owned by him, and it shows the land being next to
lands of  Mrs. Caswell Hall, who was his daughter
Martha.