Spalding County GaArchives Cemeteries.....Woodard Cemetery
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File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Sadie Rogers sl872@bellsouth.net August 09, 2013

This is info I noted that has been transcribed from a small African-American Cemetery in Spalding Co. Ga.
It has been basically lost for years as Spalding Co. and Spalding County had no records of it. 
I hope you will get it on GenWeb. as previously noted.
That was my main goal, so it would not be lost.
There are many unmarked graves here, with only 6 stones. One stone is not readable.
Not sure what other info you want, but you may take whatever I have included and use as you deem to be appropriate.
The Heron Bay subdivision sets on the county lines of Henry and Spalding counties. 
This cemetery is in Spalding County. The family information is documented in census records, death certificates, 
ancestry, obituaries,other records, and a  living relative of the Woodards.
Guesses by some that the cemetery dates back to 1860's but not confirmed. 
The land the cemetery is on, was owned at one time by Marcellus Woodard.
He descended from a slave family. Marcellus was married to Susie ? and  had a large family of 6 girls and 3 boys.
He later married Eula? and had one child. The burial place for  Marcellus and  Eula is unknown.  
One of their children is Lavonia, who married Lawyer Taylor.  
Mr. Taylor was the first African-American  to graduate from Northwestern University.  
He was later a professor of mathematics and physics and registrar, at Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta. 
They lived on the Clark campus for 30 years. This family was well educated, well accomplished, and traveled the world.
Info on stones is transcribed exactly)
 
 
The Woodard Cemetery - transcribed 2012.
Location: Luella Community, on Ga. Hwy 155, between McDonough and Griffin. 
The cemetery is in the Heron Bay Golf & Country Club subdivision. 
Enter off Hwy 155, onto Heron Bay Blvd.-continues 1 mile, turn left on Blue Sky Drive, 
go to end of street and bear left onto Southgate Drive. Gables Section( formerly Trestle Rd). 
The cemetery is about half mile down on the left side, nestled amongst large trees, and surrounded  by a split rail fence.
 
Susie A. Woodard
b. Oct. 18, 1886  ( this date on stone, but conflicts with other records which say 1865)
d. Jan. 21, 1919    
Footstone  S.A.W.
"Mother thou has from us flown to the region far above.  We to thee erect this stone consecrated by our love."
 
Waneta     ( small stone by mother)
Inft. Dau.of
Mrs. S.A. Woodard
Jan.17, 1901
Feb. 23, 1901
"At Rest"
 
William Pugh   ( these on same stone)
d.1885
Father
 
Mary Pugh                         ( There is no stone, but records note Abraham Pugh b.1904 -d. May 25, 1925 is 
d.1892                              buried in the Woodard Cemetery. His parents were John Pugh and Cora Strickland)
Mother                              It is unknown if this the family of William and Mary Pugh)
Mary Pugh
d.
 
"Hines"                           ( this a homemade stone, grave in sunken poor condition.)
Eva Mae Hughley
Apr.1902
 
 Annie Ruth Taylor
Nov.27, 1925
Feb. 8,  1926
 
Lawyer Taylor
Oct. 16, 1865
June 11, 1941
"At Rest" D
 
Mother                             ( Mrs. Taylor died in Walter Reed Hospital -Washington DC)                             
(Sweet)
Lavonia Nancy Taylor
Nov. 9, 1886
Sept. 28, 1949
Lavonia Nancy Taylor