JONES COUNTY  GA  James Family Cemetery

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Ann Odom

Resource:  The History of Jones County by Carolyn Williams

http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/jones/cemeteries/holland.txt

JAMES FAMILY CEMETERY

Location: From Gray take Hwy 18 East about five miles.  Turn left on
James Cemetery Road.  The cemetery is about 1/4 mile on the right.

   
1.   J.C. James  May 7,1874-Apr. 9, 1927
2.   Mattie B. Jarrell, wife of William James  Aug.19,1875-Feb. 18, 1925
3.   William James  Aug. 4, 1865-Apr. 13. 1923
4.   George W. James  June 21, 1844-Feb. 23, 1905
5.   J.A. Jarrell  Dec. 27, 1844-Apr. 6, 1924
6.   B.C. Jarrell  Aug. 22, 1877-Apr. 30, 1913
7.   Charles V. Evridge   Apr. 15,1871-Apr. 13, 1935




The oldest marked grave I find is for Bishop Moore who died
1844. There are quite a number of unmarked graves and there are many sunken
spaces which appear to be a grave.  Settlement in this area began in
1807/1808.
mbgatliff@mindspring.com.

There are somewhere around 200 to 250 graves. Families had always been
responsible for the care of their lots.  In 1993 it was overgrown and unkept
so a friend and I contacted as many of the families we could locate and
asked for contributions to keep the grass cut.  We send out a letter each
year with the request.  Response has been good and someone suggested we
place a marker at the entrance.  We asked for help on that in the last two
letters and hope to be able to place it this year.
I am still searching for a date that this cemetery may have been started.




That property belonged to Thomas Woolfolk in 1800 to 1863.  The James men came there when the railroads were being built.  They were tressle builders.  This was in the 1860's.  In 1863, or there abouts, Thomas Woolfolk deeded it to his son Thomas Jefferson Woolfolk, and it was sometime after the war that he sold the property to the James'.

Millie Stewart


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