COLLINS CEMETERY - Madison Co, GA Submitted by Charlotte Bond 4 Jul 2004 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ******************************************************************* Located on the edge of Madison & Banks County on the Old Fort Lamar Road near the Jot-Em-Down store. 1- Elba Collins Malinda Collins 3-25-1815 02-09-1810 10-19-1882 10-26-1895 2- Robert T. Lankford 12-24-1848 08-25-1877 3- Harret Hester 11-24-1883 10-06-1885 08-14-1884 09-17-1886 Children of J.T. & R.A. Collins [Joab Taylor & Rhoda Ann] 4- Oscar Lankford 11-22-1872 05-04-1873 5- Margarete Collins Hawks 04-28-1845 10-18-1913 The next two graves are in the same cemetery but located several yards from the rest. 6- In Memory of Polly Bray 03-21-1890 11-27-1897 7- Sacrad Bee [sic] The Memory of Murlee Bray 07-06-1888 11-21-1893 I counted 45 unmarked graves of the slaves. The cemetery is on the land of C. L. Bond. He lives in the house that Joab Collins built in 1886. Joab was the son of Elba [Elbe?] Collins. According to Mr. Bond, he knew Joab, Collins, Jr. He said he was a deaf mute and very big and strong. Joab, Jr. was always looking for his fathers money that he believed to be hidden somewhere on the vast property. It was said that Joab, Sr. had withdrawn all of his money from the bank and no one knew what he did with it. He died without revealing the whereabouts of his money. Joab, Sr. rented out his land to share cropers. He had a store on the road in front of his house from which he sold goods on credit to the share cropers and settled up with them when the crops came in.