Jones County GaArchives Cemeteries.....Mountain Springs Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery
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Barbara Shore DavidS3919@aol.com January 2000

Copied with permission from 
"History of Jones Co., Ga, 1807-1907" by Carolyn White Williams

MOUNTAIN SPRINGS CEMETERY
JONES CO., GA.
Mountain Springs is a Primitive Baptist Church founded about 100 years ago (1857).  The 
following inscriptions are from the Mountain Springs Cemetery.  Church and Cemetery are 
located in southern part of Jones Co. about 4 miles east of Griswold, GA.

Benjamin Franklin Balkcom
b. 2 Jul 1863
d. 23 Mar 1910
Not my will be done, but Thine.

Shade Croom
Confederate Veteran
d. 23 Aug 1913, aged 83

Lucinda A. Gibson, wife of
Dr. Thomas Gibson
b. 3 Jun 1837
d. 26 Apr 1889

James C. James
An honest man
1856-1884

George W. Johnson, husband of
Clara J. Johnson
b. 11 Nov 1838
d. 24 May 1889



Corpl. Charles Happoldt
Co. B. 178 N.Y. Inf.
No Dates

R.H. Stevens, Sr.
b. 19 Nov 1802
d. 21 Feb 1860

Sara Meeks
b. 25 Sep 1841
d. 24 Feb 1911

Mary A. Myers
b. 8 Apr 1841
d. 18 Sep 1904

Amanda Etherage, wife of
W.W. Ward
b. 8 May 1867
d. 29 Jul 1892

Ella Davis, wife of
W.W. Ward
Died 9 Aug 1865

Samuel D. Ward
b. 13 Jan 1886
d. 3 Jun 1926

Samuel W. Ward
b. 3 Jun 1824
d.26 Sep 1853

Sarah Staples Ward
b. 26 Feb 1841
d. 22 May 1892

William Ward
b. 13 Jan 1857
d. 27 Jan 1915

Ira Wheeler
b. 17 Dec 1830
d. 23 Dec 1893

Jane Wheeler, wife of
S.W. Ward
b. 28 Sep 1835
d. 19 Jun 1909

The following portion of this cemetery file contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Larry Childs http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00014.html#0003325 September 14, 2009

Shadrach Croom 
Co. B. 14TH. Ga. Inf 
C. S. A 

Forest Edward Happoldt 
Sept. 22, 1871 - Aug. 1, 1956 

Ora Lee Happoldt 
Sept. 15, 1900 - Sept. 23, 1929 

A. H. Meeks 
April 9, 1837 - Jan. 7. 1918 

Infant Son of B. A. and S. L. Meeks 
Oct. 9, 1895 

Benjamin B. Meeks 
July 25, 1866 - Sept. 16, 1901 

Jos. W. Wheeler 
May 52, 1866 - Nov. 29, 1930 

Henry Balkcom 
May 21, 1809 - April 17, 1882 

M. D. Balkcom 
1855 - 1930 

Delana Balkcom 
May 22, 1809 - April 17, 1882 

B. F. Denning Dr. 
Aug. 9, 1857 - Jan. 17, 1885 

Kathy Mixon Crooms 
Widow of C. F. Lyles 
Aug. 9, 1867 - Sept. 9, 1946 

David L. Crooms 
April 12, 1853 - July 28, 1918 

W. F. Chain 
Jan. 20, 1844 - Oct. 8, 1917 

Baby Chain 
Aged 3 months 

Caleb Chain 
1897 - 1904 

Laura W.Chain 
1893 - 1896 

Elizabeth Wheeler 
Wife of Layfette Cobb 
1856 1938 

Layfette Cobb 
1856 - 1930 

Martha Jane Stevens 
1860 - 1958 

Rufus H. Stevens 
1860 - 1902