RICHMOND COUNTY, GA - CEMETERY Cottage - Carmichael Cemetery ***************** 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: Darlene Brooks "Cottage Cemetery" - Also known as "Carmichael Cemetery" Augusta, Georgia take Marvin Griffin Rd. take left to Wine Sap Way Rd. until you see concrete column that reads "Cottage Cemetery" then turn left. There are many graves in this cemetery, a lot has been vandalized. These are just a few that I could still read. From the looks of these graves these people may have been wealthy. A brick wall surrounds it for comfort. Sacred to the memory of John Carmichael, Early in life he left his native county, Ireland, and for 39 years was a resident of Augusta, Ga. He departed this life on the 6th February 1847, aged 73 years. Leaving a large family circle to mourn his loss. "Be ye also ready for in such an hour as ye know not the son & man cometh" [tombstone photo on-line] Katherine E. Fitzsimons wife of Col. John P. C. Whitehead June 23, 1840 Sept. 1, 1930 "Triumphant in his grace" Mrs. Emma O. Smith, daughter of Oswell Eve, wife of William Smith, died Oct. 29, 1882 aged 84 years "Looking for that blessed hope" Sacred to the memory of Robert E. Cunningham, son of *Cant make out the rest* Florence Carmichael Leitner November 21, 1884 February 1, 1936 Sacred to the memory of Robert E. Carmichael, third son of John & Mary E. Carmichael, born 17 March 1815 died 21 Nov. 1857 He was a faithful man and feared God above many. Without faith is impossible to please God. Sacred to the memory of Aphra Ann Eve Who departed this life the 7th Sept. 1891 aged 56 years [wife of Capt Oswell Eve] John S. Adams died in Randal Stowe Ireland and was buried in his father's grave June 5th 1812 Emma Eve Longstreet wife of Josiah Sibley born at the cottage August 18, 1826 died February 4, 1888 "Sleep on beloved, Sleep and take thy rest" The beloved wife of John Bones and daughter of Rev. James Brown died Feb. 6th, 1865 aged 55 years [tombstone photo on-line] Henry Campbell Eve born Aug. 10th, 1855 died March 15th, 1863 also listed Frank Eve born Dec. 1st, 1857 died Feb. 18th, 1863 "Lovely and pleasant in their lives an in the end death they ever molding" Sarah A. Carmichael wife of J. M. Williams Jan. 2, 1852 July 29, 1907 Maria Louisa Eve born Feb. 11, 1842 died April 5, 1900 "Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God" Mary Augusta Eve born July 6, 1844 died Aug. 22, 1905 "And will dwell in the house of the Lord" Ellen White daughter of Owen Paul & Mary Baynard Fitzsimons April 1, 1860 Sept. 2, 1940 Sacred to the memory of William Ross, third son of John R. & Catherine Dow born Oct. 24, 1850 died Nov. 10, 1852 "It is well" Elizabeth Carmichael Sibley Oct. 24, 1860 Aug. 9, 1943 Sacred to the memory of Mary B. wife of O. P. Fitzsimons born Dec. 1, 1828 died July 12, 1889 "She is not dead, but sleepeth" In memory of Hannah S. Longstreet, who died Feb. 4th, 1887 aged 66 years "With Christ which is far better" Wife of Anderson Longstreet and mother of C. K. Ayer Died April 25, 1861 aged 26 years J. Randolph Carmichael Jan. 16, 1897 Feb. 22, 1920 Henri Augusta son of John C. & Henrietta Carmichael born May 22nd, 1850 died October 13th, 1851 aged 17 months John Edgar Infant son of John C. & Henrietta Carmichael born January 18th, 1843 and died 3rd February following "Gone to God" Charles Cunningham died on the 18th April 1851 aged 44 years "And this is the promise that he hath promised us even eternal life" Mrs. Anna W. Cunningham died 5th Nov. 1850 aged 31 years "God is Pure" Elizabeth Eve Carmichael April 7, 1881 February 27, 1961 O. P. Fitzsimons born Oct. 27, 1826 died Oct. 17, 1909 Eve, Oswell Capt 23rd of June 1754 - 14th of August 1829 (based on historical newspaper article) (husband of Aphra Ann Pritchard Eve) Catherine Eve Watkins Born 12th March 1787 Died 25th Oct 1869 Sacred to the memory of the beloved and loving wife of Robert Campbell Jan 15, 1911 Cemetery Holds interest and History of Augusta "Cottage Cemetery" Six Miles from Augusta founded 1800 Eves, Campbells, Longstreets, Cunninghams, Carmichaels, Fitzsimmons, Hamptons and Smiths Buried There The Cottage Cemetery is not the oldest cemetery in Richmond County, but it is the oldest in this section of the state, but there is not another cemetery about Augusta that holds so much history, o much of interest to the life of Augusta, as does the little cemetery tucked away on the side of a hill in the midst of a grove or fra? pines six miles from the city. Cemeteries of the old Southern families contain a certain odor of primitviness as well as a certain quality of resfulness and contant. "The Cottage Cemetery" resting as it does on the side of the hill, seems to breath and peace, a perfect atmosphere for the city of the dead. In that cemetery sleep the forefatehrs of one of the most illustrious and prominent families of Richmond county. "The Cottage Cemetery" sometime -- a half mile off the Savannah road was built or rather laid off by Capt Oswell Eve, a resident of Richmond County whi is buried there. He secured the spot for this plot in 1800, 20 years before the city cemetery was laid off. The cemetery adjoined "The Cottage" Capt Eve's summer home, which was only a few miles from "Frog Hall " his winter home. Capt Oswell Eve was born in Philadelphia on the 23rd of June 1754 and died at his residence in Richmond, the 14th of August 1829. He married Miss Aphra Ann Pritchard of Charleston, S.C. and 14 children came to the union. His children who are grandparents of many of August and Richmond County's most prominent families, are all buried in Cottage cemetery, with the exception of his son, Oswell, who was sent to England to receive his education and died in Liverpool. The children Anna Pritchard, Sarah, Catherine, Mary, Eliza, Elizabeth, Martha Henrietta, Oswell, Maria Fitzsimmons, Emmaline, John Pritchard, Augusta Belinda, Joseph William, Paul Fitzsimmons and Aphra Watkins. The first one to be buried in the cottage Cemetery was the daughter of Capt and Mrs. Eve, Augusta Belinda, a little girl was only a year old and was born in 1802 and was buried 1803. The marble slab which has marked her grave these many years has been stolen. There are numerous other interesting tombstones and slabs in the cemetery, and a number of them bear interesting inscriptions. The tombstones of Capt Oswell, the found of the cemetery it said that he was "faithful in all relative duties of lie as a citizen he was esteemed for his courteousness of manner,his pur example, incorruptible integrityand his zeal in the public good." "His house was the seat of Christian hospitality and patriarchal simplicity which reigned through all its departments made it a delighted resort of friends and guests of every age." Capt Eve was an elder in the First Presbyterian Church of this city. Another sentence on the tombstone which speaks rather forcefully of his life as a Christian reads: "Having lived many years ... been signally blessed in them all, was gathers to his Father's in a good old age, full of years and full of honors." His children, married men of distinction and note, and while many of them were wedded to men --- states, they were brought ---- Cottage cemetery for their final resting place. Eves, Fitzsimmons, Hamptons, Cunninghams, Carmichaels, Campbells, Smiths, and Longstreets are within the small enclosure of this cemetery. The families have married and intermarried until the --- have become as one famous... Fitzsimmons, a descendant of -- Eve, married General Wade ? of South Carolina; Catherine Fitzsimmons married Gover ? of South Carolina; Maria Eliza Eve, married John Bones, and so the unions go from one family to another. There are many curious and interesting inscriptions on the slabs of the cemetery. The slave over the grave of Capt. Oswell Even containing an account of his virtues from manhood until death. Immediately next to the grave is that of his wife, who bore him 14 children, suffered and rejoiced with him, and died several years before him. Her grave is marked with similar slab, and but a very elaborate inscription set forth her life and virtues. On the stone, marking the grave of Robert Joseph Campbell, aged ? is the following verse: Sleep well in dust, await the Master's will Then rise unchanged and be beloved still. There are stones with the notations in Latin, and others containing the old words and phrases of the last part of the 19th century. Maria Fitzimmons Eve was married to John Bones. In the notice of the marriage printed in The Augusts Chronicle at the time, it was said that "Eve was made of bone." But Mr. Joice performed a great miracle by reconverting Eve into Bones". On the tombstone it is stated that she was "the consort of John Bones ?, the daughter of Capt Oswell Eve, died the 34d of July 1833. The grandparents of Hon. William F. Eve, Hannah and Joseph Eve are buried side by side in the Cottage Cemetery. The cemetery is a beautiful little spot, such as Tennyson would describe but until a few months since it was overgrown wiht vines and the stones stained with weather and undergrowth. Recently the place has been cleaned, the stones polished and the Cottage cemetery can be seen today between the trees from the road, glistening white, a symbolic picture of the city in which "there are many mansions" "not made with hands".