McDuffie Co, GA Cemeteries - Bowdre Family Cemetery (Nicknamed "Gentlemen's Hill Cemetery")

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This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: 
Michele Lewis (cranberryfrog@bellsouth.net
) and William Maddox (BMADDOX12@aol.com)

This cemetery is located off the south side of Stagecoach Road,
east of Wrightsboro Road. It is visible from the road.  It is
on a small hill in a cow pasture in a clump of trees.  It is
surrounded by a rail fence.

There are three exposed vaults in the plot.

Thomas Bowdre
20 Mar 1777 - 10 Aug 1816

Unknown female (partial inscription states "sweetest disposition and her 
qualities were...)  

____lly J. Hamilton (First part of first name unreadable)
Consort of James F. Hamilton
Died 10 Oct 1827 
Aged 20 years, 10 months, 10 days

NOTES (additiona):
Thomas Bowdre's birthdate is 3-29-1777 and deathdate is 8-10-1846.  
 
The Hamilton woman buried by him is his daughter, Emily J. Bowdre Hamilton.  
 
The other is Thomas Bowdre's daughter,  Caroline Epatha 1-16-1823/9-10-1829.
 
Pauleta Hicks
pauleta@cctc.net

This cemetery was surveyed by Michele Lewis (cranberryfrog@bellsouth.net
) 
and William Maddox (BMADDOX12@aol.com) on 14 Apr 2003.