Johnson County GaArchives History .....Samuel Williams Cemetery 1879
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Samuel Wiliams Family Cemetery 
Meeks, Johnson County, Georgia.

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 in gppd shape for 
many years.  Henry Samuel 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. 
I also think it will be easier to access since all of the 
trees and underbrush are gone.

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.

I have pictures of the graves.  There are the following 
graves and markers there:

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, 1890, 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, ingraved into 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..


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