Putnam County GaArchives Odom Cemetery
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Transcribed by Suzanne Forte 
(suzanneforte@bellsouth.net), 
February 19, 2005

Odom Cemetery
Putnam County, Georgia


Surnames in this cemetery:  Odom, Driscol, Mosley,Farrah, 
Farrar, Mathis,Hunter, Whaley,Bradley, Driskell

Location:  From Monticello, Georgia, State Hwy 212 East 
for between 11 ½ and 12 miles, turn right on Bradley Road. 
Cemetery is located about ½ mile on the right.  Located on 
US Forest Service Land. 

This cemetery is located about 25 yards to the left of 
the Layson Cemetery.

Anna Odom Bradley
August 3 1865      	 August 4 1929
(d/o Boykin & Sarah Odom)
 married William M Bradley- he died young
he is buried in Jones Co Bradley Cemetery

Julius Bennett Odom
Jan 1 1864       	Dec 31 1939
(son of Boykin & Sarah Odom)
(never married)

Boykin G. Odom
December 17 1818	December 17 1886
CSA soldier
(husband of Sarah Driskell Odom)

Odom, Sarah Elizabeth ( Sallie)Driskell 
(b 1836-d 1897)
(husband of Boykin G. Odom) 
(Sarah was the daughter of Joshua Driskell and Julia Elizabeth Mathis)


Lila Odom
July 28 1884
Jan 2 1959
daughter of Edgar Odom and Olivia Farrar
never married
writer for Eatonton Messenger

Olivia Odom
Oct 31, ??		Oct 6, ?? (This large stone is 
broken and laying on it’s side, this is all that I could read of the dates)
Married Edgar Odom 30 Nov. 1882  (Olivia Farrar)

Edgar Odom 
born 1856   died 21 Oct. 1914
husband of Olivia Farrar Odom
(possibly no tombstone showing now)

Odom, Frances Louise Odom
d/o of J.L. And Ione Odom Whaley

Shirling, Mary
04/15/1792-12/01/1874
1)wife of Winborne Odom
mother of Boykin Odom
2)wife of Isom Shirling

(These Odom   graves are located within an old wrought iron fence enclosure)

Mary A. Driscol  
December 8 1877		April 15 1903
d/o Robert Lidy Hitchcock and Mary Ella Marks

Robert H. Mosley
Dec 11 1915			Feb 5 1917

In Memory of Mary Farrah
Born in Chatham Co, N.C.   May 30 1707 ??  died April 20 1777 ?? 
(Flat stone marker broken)

Fannie Farrar Mathis
Sept 6 1821		Sept 24 1889

Major John Thomas Mathis
Jan 29 1814		Nov 1 1885
Albert N.  s/o A. J. and Amanda Rosey
July 14 1891		July 29 1892

Sacred to the Memory of
Elizabeth Hunter
November 11 1794		Sept 19 1845
Age 51 years

Sacred to the Memory of
Henry Hunter
March 1789		Sept 12 1847
Age 58 years

Ione Odom Whaley
June 3 1858		July 8 1947

Frances Louise d/o J. L. and Ione Whaley
Sept 6 1881		April 14 1909

Infant son of J. L. and Ione Whaley 
   August 9 1879   (only date)

The preceding five graves were located within a wrought iron fence.

Miss (or Mrs.) Julia E. Driskell
Born in the Year of Our Lord 1812   December 12 
Departed this life ???? (unreadable)

Sacred to the Memory of 
Elisha Mathis 
Died June 27 1838,  age 67 years

Transcriber’s note:  There are many graves unmarked and some 
marked only with field stones.

ADDITIONAL NAMES:

Robert Lidy Hitchcock and his wife Mary Ella
Marks Hitchcook
Researcher: dandjthornley@aol.com