MONROE COUNTY, GA - Cemetery Fletcher Family ***************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm *********************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Larry Childs http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00014.html#0003325 Fletcher Cemetery This cemetery is on Georgia power property. It escaped removal when Georgia Power Built Lake Juliet. It is located on Colvin road in Monroe County GA. Directions to this cemetery from Forsyth Ga. Take State route 18 towards Gray Ga. About five miles out from Forsyth Ga. Take Ebenezer Rd on the left to Ebenezer Cemetery. Take a right turn on Colvin road which is a small dirt road. Follow this road until it runs to a chain across the road attached to two metal post. If the chain is up you may try to get a Park Ranger at the office to un lock it for you. If not the cemetery is located about ¼ mile down the road on the right at the edge of a small field about two acres in size. It has a six foot Rio Grande fence around it. The cemetery is in very bad shape with only one marked burial. There are about five to eight burials in the cemetery. Most of the burials are in rock walled enclosures only one is outside a enclosure. Buried outside enclosures James Fletcher Born September 15, 1813 Died November 29, 1862 NOTE: James parents (Richard) attended Holly Grove Church which is in this vicinity. Small enclosure one unmarked enclosure maybe child Large enclosure unknown burials possibly Taylor Family. James's wife was a Taylor however she is buried in Bolingbrook with her family. Second small enclosure one unmarked burial maybe child NOTES: Name: Effy Fletcher Age: 69 Estimated birth year: abt 1781 Birth place: North Carolina Gender: Female Home in 1850(City,County,State): Division 60, Monroe, Georgia The 1840 census shows that there are four children. The 1830 census shows Name: Fletcher, Richard Township: Not Stated County: Monroe State: Georgia The 1830 census show that Richard had three sons in 1830 one being between 10 and 20 I believe this will be James Flether born 1813. By 1840 0ne of the younger boys is not with the family. The census also shows him with three girls by 1840 there are only two girls. By 1840 he is dead or missing as well as two children. I believe that Richard Fletcher born about 1780, and Julia are in the large rock wall enclosure and the two children are in the two small ones. There are clearly five burials and maybe three others. 1850 United States Federal Census > Georgia > Monroe > Division 60 image 81 Fletcher, James 36 m farmer $2,000 Julia A 27 f Eugene 6 m FLETCHER,James & TAYLOR,Julia Ann 12/15/1842 1860 United States Federal Census > Georgia > Monroe > Dardens image 7 Flecher, James 42 farmer 2500 16,000 Julia A. 37 Eugenius 16 Electu 7 1870 United States Federal Census > Georgia > Monroe image 120 Fletcher, Julia 46 [1824]keeping house $3,00 $1200 Stromer? 24 m Mattie C 16 Doughterty Wm 28 m w farm laborer born in ?Ill? 1880 United States Federal Census > Georgia > Monroe > District 466 > District 90 image 11 Fletcher, Julia w f 57 widow keeping house 1830 Census FLETCHER RICHARD 221 Marriages: FLETCHER Davis & JONES Nancy 01/04/1826 FLETCHER Henry B. & MERRITT Mary E. 08/31/1843 FLETCHER James & TAYLOR Julia Ann 12/15/1842 FLETCHER Mark H. & RAVINS Martha J. 11/16/1842 1862 Salt List Mrs. Thomas Fletcher (wifes now in service) Monroe County Georgia Co K 53rd Regiment Fletcher, Thomas Jefferson - Private May 6, 1862. Appointed 1st Sergeant February 1863. Elected 2d Lieutenant July 1863. Wounded at Knoxville, Tenn. November 29, 1863. Elected 1st Lieutenant May 6, 1864. Surrendered at Appomattox, Va. April 9, 1865.