THOMAS County Georgia "The Old Cemetery" Thomasville *********************************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or other presentation. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for FREE access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/thomas.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm *********************************************************************************** submitted by Jack Wynn April 19, 2002 columns with unmarked information are marked with --- NAME LAST, FIRST, NEE BORN DIED MARRIED SPOUSE Lot Name Alderman David --- --- --- --- --- --- Alderman dau --- --- --- --- --- --- Bude Vetitia B. --- --- 11/18/1873 --- --- --- Beall C. C. --- 12/24/1797 3/27/1874 --- --- --- Bower Peter Shively 12/4/1833 12/19/1897 --- --- --- Bower Martha Adams Remington 7/29/1831 5/5/1898 --- --- --- Bowen Perry --- --- 4/23/1862 --- --- Bowen Branner G. C. --- --- --- --- --- Branner Bryan Hardy --- --- --- --- Maria Wyche Bryan Bryan Maria Wyche 11/7/1805 8/5/1824 --- Hardy Bryan Bryan Clifford John Woody 9/17/1844 12/25/1916 4/3/1879 Alice Moore Clifford Chastain Joseph W. --- 12/16/1849 11/19/1881 --- Fannie Flanigan Chastain Campbell Fanny S. --- --- 10/16/1871 --- --- --- Davies, Theodosius B. --- 6/15/1825 1/28/1859 --- Martha Adams Remington Davies Deva Andreal --- --- --- --- --- Deva Donaldson, Robert Nathanial--- 10/31/1833 9/7/1900 --- Louisa Elizabeth ?? --- Murray, Raphila Jane Ponce 3/18/1800 --- --- Dr. Richard Murray Dufour Ponce Cecilia --- 8/8/1805 --- --- --- Dufour Dyson Thomas E. --- --- --- --- --- Dyson Dyson, Elizabeth B. Thomas 1/5/1807 8/18/1857 --- --- Dyson Dyson James --- --- --- --- --- Dyson Dyson Jr., Thomas E. --- --- --- --- --- Dyson Dyson James E. --- --- --- --- --- Dyson Dyson Willie --- --- --- --- --- Dyson Ebenger Lewis --- --- --- --- --- --- Evans Robert R. --- 4/23/1817 6/1/1865 --- Caroline Mayo Evans Evans Caroline Mayo 8/2/1829 6/9/1912 --- Robert R. Evans Evans Evans Willie --- --- --- 7/24/1876 Evans Evans child --- --- --- --- --- Evans Evans child --- --- --- --- --- Evans Evans child --- --- --- --- --- Evans Fisher Hugh T. --- 2/7/1861 9/6/1908 --- --- Fisher Fisher Florence --- 12/22/1842 1/20/1892 --- --- Fisher Fisher R. W. --- --- 2/8/1879 --- --- Fisher Flanigan, William P. --- --- --- --- --- Flannigan Chastain, Fannie Flanigan --- --- --- Joseph Chastain Flannigan Adult --- --- --- --- --- Fondren/Thompson Fondren?, Erasmus --- --- --- --- --- Fondren/Thompson Fondren David E. --- --- --- --- --- Fondren/Thompson Fondren Jr., John Guyton --- --- --- --- Fondren/Thompson Fondren, Cornelia Josephine --- --- --- --- Fondren/Thompson Thompson Daniel --- 8/3/1812 2/25/1858 --- --- Fondren/Thompson Fondren, Ann Thompson 5/8/1816 5/27/1887 --- John Guyton Fondren Fondren/Thompson Fondren Sr., John Guyton 5/3/1811 2/24/1853 --- --- Fondren/Thompson child --- --- --- --- --- Fondren/Thompson Fondren Infant --- --- --- --- --- Fondren/Thompson Ross, Amanetta Fondren --- --- --- --- James Llewellyn Ross Fondren/Thompson Hayes Augustus H. --- --- --- --- --- Hayes Harris, Robert Hamilton --- 4/19/1842 4/29/1928 --- Mary Martha Love Love Harris, Mary Martha Love 3/5/1845 12/28/1900 --- Robert Hamilton Harris Love Harris, Bennett Love --- --- 3/3/1877 --- --- Love Harris, Bernetta Early 6/11/1844 10/16/1861 --- --- Love Hall, Oscar C. --- 2/5/1844 11/5/1889 --- Margaret Jane Love Love Hall, Jonathan --- --- --- --- --- Hall Hall, Susan --- --- --- --- --- Hall Hall, Lawrence --- --- --- --- --- Hall Hall, John --- --- --- --- --- Hall Hall, Samuel --- --- --- --- --- Hall Hall, younger son --- --- --- --- --- Hall Hawkins Charlie --- --- --- --- --- Hawkins Harrison, Hansel W. --- --- 11/8/1875 --- --- Harrison Hansell, Georgia --- --- --- --- --- Hansell Hardwick, T. W. --- 9/16/1849 9/8/1883 --- Mary E. Hardwick Hardwick, Thomas W. --- 12/9/1872 --- --- Hardwick Hardwick, Mary G. --- 8/25/1853 1/25/1867 --- --- Hardwick Hardwick, Robert --- --- --- --- --- Hardwick Hardwick, Carl --- 1/13/1867 9/27/1867 --- --- Hardwick Hardwick, Edwin --- 5/27/1863 10/7/1879 --- --- Hardwick Henderson, John D. --- --- --- --- --- --- Kitchen William H. --- --- --- --- --- Kitchen Love, Peter Early --- 7/7/1818 11/8/1866 --- Mary Martha Bracewell Love Love, Mary Martha Bracewell 10/10/1826 9/29/1895 --- --- Love Love, Amos J. --- 11/20/1842 9/5/1878 --- --- Love Hall, Margaret Jane Love --- --- --- Oscar C. Hall Love Love Jr., Peter Early --- --- --- --- --- Love Rebekah Ann Fleming 1/25/1810 5/21/1871 --- --- Love Bracewell, Thomas Clinch--- --- --- --- --- Love Harris, Peter Baldy--- 3/22/1871 --- --- Love Harris, Robert Early--- 10/23/1865 11/24/1866 --- --- Love Harris, Robert Bracewell--- 12/4/1876 1/28/1887 --- --- Love Lasseter, Samuel --- --- --- --- --- Lasseter Caroline --- --- --- --- --- Lasseter Lasseter, Sarah Frances--- 10/26/1852 5/7/1862 --- --- Lasseter Lasseter, Jimmie --- --- --- --- --- Lasseter infant --- --- --- --- --- Lasseter Lightfoot Sr., John --- --- --- --- --- Lightfoot Lightfoot wife --- --- --- --- --- Lightfoot Lightfoot infant --- --- --- --- --- Lightfoot Lightfoot infant --- --- --- --- --- Lightfoot McComb, Samuel --- 10/19/1789 3/16/1848 --- --- --- McBain, Thomas Jefferson--- --- 5/5/1879 --- --- McBain McBain, Mary A. --- 11/8/1857 8/22/1859 --- --- McBain McBain, Ludie --- --- --- --- --- McBain McBain, Dinkie --- --- --- --- --- McBain McBride, Julia F.--- --- 1/11/1857 --- --- McBride McKinnon, child --- --- --- --- --- McKinnon McKinnon, child --- --- --- --- --- McKinnon McKinnon, child --- --- --- --- --- McKinnon McLendon, Eliza Jane--- 11/9/1838 3/23/1860 --- C. G. McLendon McLendon McLendon, Clyde --- --- 6/30/1879 --- --- McLendon McLendon Jr., William --- --- --- --- --- McLendon McGuire, Daniel J. --- --- --- --- --- McGuire McGuire, Millie --- --- --- --- --- McGuire McGloshan, Peter Alexander Selkirk--- --- --- --- Smith McGloshan, Ann Willis Seixas --- --- --- --- Smith McGloshan, Richard McLean--- --- --- --- --- Smith McGloshan, Lena Spalding --- --- --- --- Smith McGloshan, Mattie --- --- --- --- --- Smith Mitchell, Isaac William --- --- 5/24/1862 --- Prusia Ann Cotton Mitchell Mitchell, William C.--- --- 1/31/1868 --- --- Mitchell Mitchell, Lewis --- --- --- --- --- Mitchell Miller, John --- 4/15/1830 3/6/1858 --- Frances Paine Miller Miller, James --- --- --- --- --- Miller Miller Joseph --- --- --- --- --- Miller Marlin Lessie --- --- --- --- --- Marlin Mertz --- --- --- --- --- --- Mertz Mertz --- --- --- --- --- --- Mertz Metzler E. H. --- --- 5/12/1848 --- --- Metzler Bors (Bird?), Elizabeth Way Moody --- --- --- --- Moody Bird --- --- --- --- --- --- Moody Bird May --- --- --- --- --- Moody Bird Nellie --- --- --- --- --- Moody Bird --- --- --- --- --- --- Moody Warren, --- --- --- --- --- --- Moody Overby, John Baylis Earle 1/8/1821 5/28/1854 --- --- --- Peters, Joseph C.--- 9/25/1832 1/15/1895 --- --- Peters Peters, S. A. Davis --- --- --- --- Peters Peters, Josie --- --- --- --- --- Peters Peters, Eddie --- --- --- --- --- Peters Peters, Charlie J. --- 1/31/1868 2/12/1891 --- --- Peters Parnell Willis Jonas --- 1/14/1810 4/16/1890 12/4/1835 Mary Bryan Clark Parnell Page, Noah --- --- --- --- --- Page Remington, Edward --- 6/7/1804 4/18/1878 Mary Arnold Smith Remington Remington, Mary Arnold Smith 9/25/1803 10/16/1850 --- Edward Remington Remington Remington, Patience --- 11/8/1830 5/6/1886 --- --- Remington Remington, Willie H. --- --- 7/13/1873 --- --- Remington Remington, Edward S. --- --- --- --- --- Remington Remington, Simeon Smith--- 4/20/1846 4/20/1846 --- --- Remington Remington, Anne Francis --- 2/21/1831 9/17/1852 --- --- Remington Remington, Mary Elizabeth--- 10/2/1849 9/19/1852 --- --- Remington Remington, Francis Henry --- 7/30/1827 3/14/1888 Anne Elizabeth Dasher Remington Remington, Anne Elizabeth Dasher--- 8/30/1829 3/28/1888 Francis Henry Remington Remington Reaves, Sarah Jane --- --- 3/12/1844 Reaves Reaves, child --- --- --- --- --- Reaves Royal, Crosskeys --- --- --- --- India Hardaway Royal Royal, --- --- --- --- --- Royal Royal, --- --- --- --- --- Royal Royal, Child --- --- --- --- --- Royal Rockenbough, Jacob --- --- --- --- --- Rockenbough Rockenbough, --- --- --- --- --- Rockenbough Sanford, Wade F. --- --- --- --- Miss Anna Beall Sanford Sandwich, Amelia Diana --- --- --- --- --- Sandwich/McIntosh Sandwich, Lucy Jane --- --- --- --- --- Sandwich/McIntosh McIntosh, Amelia Jane --- --- --- --- --- Sandwich/McIntosh McIntosh, Daniel --- --- --- --- --- Sandwich/McIntosh Sandwich, Matilda Soponia --- --- --- --- --- Sandwich/McIntosh Scott, Jane G. --- --- --- 2/27/1879 --- --- --- Smith, Simeon Alexander --- 6/11/1779 2/10/1846 12/26/1802 Mary Sheldon Smith Smith, Jr., Simeon Alexander --- 9/27/1805 5/15/1888 --- Susan Parramore Smith Smith, Simeon Alexander --- --- --- --- --- Smith Smith, Redding --- --- --- --- Harriett Blackshear Mash Smith Smith, Cora --- 12/26/1847 6/4/1914 --- --- Smith Smith, Achilles --- --- --- --- --- Smith Smith, Junius --- --- --- --- --- Smith Harvey, Martha Peck Smith 4/30/1812 5/24/1890 --- --- Smith Smith, Lucy Ann --- --- 11/4/1856 --- Peyton P. Smith Smith Seward, Hansell Harvey --- --- --- --- --- Seward Seward, Hansell Roberts --- 3/30/1812 1/13/1860 --- --- Seward Seward, James L. --- --- --- --- Frances Amanda Tooke Seward McClendon, James A. --- --- --- --- --- Seward or McClendon McLin, Kent --- --- 1/27/1878 --- --- Seward Seward, Josephine --- --- --- --- --- Seward Seward, Sarah Roberts --- --- --- William Seward Seward Tooke, H. H. --- --- --- --- --- Seward Seixas, Edward --- 6/2/1779 5/7/1871 --- Huldah Sheldon Smith Seixas Seixas, Huldah Sheldon Smith 5/28/1807 5/6/1865 --- Edward Seixas Seixas Seixas, Edward Remington --- 6/11/1839 9/30/1860 --- --- Seixas Seixas, Angelina Cecelis --- --- 11/13/1880 --- --- Seixas Stegall, J. L. --- --- --- --- Mayne A. Stegall? Stegall, Mayne A. --- --- --- --- J. L. Stegall Stegall? Stegall, Willie L. --- --- 8/12/1867 --- --- Stegall? Stevens, ? --- --- --- --- --- Stevens Shytle, Thomas A. --- --- --- --- --- Shytle Smith, Charles D. --- 8/30/1901 8/8/1902 --- --- Smith ,Lucy Ann Goneka --- 11/4/1856 --- Peyton P. Smith Smith, Milton C. --- 5/6/1825 5/2/1883 --- Martha Jane Thomas Smith (Smith), Martha Jane Thomas 2/10/1822 12/24/1891 --- Milton C. Smith Smith Vickers, Texas Selma --- --- 5/1/1842 --- --- Vickers Vickers, Jr., James M. --- 5/16/1848 5/1/1858 --- --- Vickers Vickers, Pleasant Nixon --- 11/3/1838 3/31/1873 --- --- Vickers Foster, Ann E. --- --- 5/22/1905 --- --- Vickers Vickers, James M. --- --- --- --- Anna Euphrasia Miller Vickers Vickers, S. W. --- --- --- --- --- Vickers Vickers, E. A. --- --- --- --- --- Vickers Vickers, Mack --- --- 10/8/1905 --- --- Vickers Vickers, A. E. --- --- --- --- --- Vickers Warren, Josiah --- --- --- --- --- Warren Winn, Frank Jones --- --- 6/12/1907 --- Sarah Remington Davies Winn Winn, Sarah R. Davies --- 1/23/1928 11/29/1850 --- --- Winn Canfield, Harriett Elizabeth Winn --- 6/14/1871 --- --- Winn Wolcott, James L. --- --- --- --- --- Wolcott Walcott, Sara Rembert 6/28/1838 1/14/1914 --- --- Walcott ,adult --- --- --- --- --- Walcott ,infant --- --- --- --- --- Walcott ,infant --- --- --- --- --- Walcott ,infant --- --- --- --- --- Walcott ,adult --- --- --- --- --- Walcott ,adult --- --- --- --- --- Walcott ,??? --- --- --- --- --- Walcott ,??? --- --- --- --- --- Walcott Witherington, Robert R. --- --- 7/22/1956 --- --- Witherington Witherington, Benjamin H.--- --- 6/14/1879 --- Amanda --- Witherington, Amanda --- --- --- --- Benjamin Witherington Witherington Wombwell, T. J. --- --- --- --- --- Wombwell Wombell, Emma --- --- --- --- --- Wombwell Wind, John --- --- --- --- --- Wind Wind, Sylvania Bethany Donaldson --- --- --- John Wind Wind Wind, dau --- --- --- --- --- Wind Wind, dau --- --- --- --- --- Wind Wyche, Henry --- --- 10/13/1880 --- --- --- Gran, Charles A. --- --- --- --- --- --- Homan, Smith G. --- --- --- --- --- --- Kimbrough, George --- --- --- --- --- --- Lacey, George --- --- --- --- --- --- Lightfoot,John M. --- --- --- --- --- --- Lowry, Frederick D. --- --- --- --- --- --- Mitchell, William --- --- --- --- --- --- Spears, H. W. --- --- --- --- --- --- Spears, W. G. --- --- --- --- --- --- Fox, William --- --- --- --- --- --- Smith, Mary Sheldon 5/3/1782 3/2/1862 --- --- --- submitted by Jack Wynn April 19, 2002 NOTE************************************************************************************** On the Allen Spears cemetery plot, I note that Allen and his wife Sarah (Ridley?) Spears, also rest there in unmarked graves. Allen also served under the Confederacy, as a private in Company K, 12th Georgia Militia. Their sons buried there, Winifred G. and W.(illiam?) H.(arrison) aka Harrison W., both served in the 29th Georgia Infantry Regiment and died early in the war... apparently either in Thomasville or at a location where their bodies could be brought back (possibly by rail). Another son, David Spears, also served in the 29th Georgia Infantry Regiment, was captured at Chickamauga, died in the Camp Douglas P.O.W. Camp, and is interred in the Confederate Mound mass grave in the Old Chicago City Cemetery, in Illinois. The two grave markers in the Old Thomasville Cemetery indicate that Winifred and Harrison served in Company B, however it appears from Lillian Henderson's _Soldiers of Georgia_ and the Compiled Confederate Service Records, that all three brothers actually initially served in Company K which was later redesignated Company C of the 29th Georgia Infantry Regiment. One son survived the war... John/James A. Spears served in Company E of the 50th Georgia Infantry Regiment and surrendered with it at Appomattox. He lived at least into the 1880s when he served as a court-appointed guardian for an inheritance by my half great uncle James H. Carter, but I do not know where he died or was interred. Allen Spears was born in Florida about 1821 (possibly near Alligator now called lake City... in the vicinity of a place now called Wellborn which was then in Columbia but is now in Suwannee County), and he apparently married Sarah Ridley in Wilkinson County, Georgia, in 1836. Allen and Sarah appear to have lived in Thomas County from before 1840 till their deaths... his having occurred on 14 March 1879 and hers probably sometime after 1870. Allen Spier is a name common in families tracing back to the vicinity of Ayr, Scotland. The name appears variously, as Spear and Spears but leads I am currently pursuing lead me to believe that the "correct" spelling was Spier... and that it was also spelt Spiers, Speir and Speirs.More detailed information can be found at: http://www.pone.com/ts/rw000.htm and http://www.pone.com/of/ photos of the headstone can be seen at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/thomas/photos/spearswh.jpg http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/thomas/photos/spearswg.jpg http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/thomas/photos/spearssa.jpg Some of the information in the information above, including remarks about Native American ancestry in the web pages, is state-of-the-art interpretation at this point and is subject to revision as research proceeds. Above are addresses to photos of the two grave stones... as well as a photo of what is thought to be the unmarked graves of Sarah Ridley Spears & Allen Spears. The four markers visible behind them are part of a row of 5 markers of graves of members of the 29th Georgia Infantry Regiment. Approximately between the two graves is the stump of a cedar tree. The white wooden cross was placed, I am told, by Joe Craigmiles; one of a number he put on unmarked graves of Confederate soldiers in the Old Thomasville cemetery. There is a shell-covered grave between these two and the two marked as those of WG & WH "Spear" and there is also one other just past them topped by a rounded cement cover which may or may not be a part of the Allen Spears family grouping. I have no idea where my great grandparents are buried (where ever that is they are not marked), and these graves could be theirs or those of any number of other family members. The only other member of the family that I presently know the final resting place of is Nancy Spears (1837-1915), wife of Amon H. Thompson. She lies at the Old Boston cemetery behind the Presbyterian Church in Boston, Thomas County. Besides my great grandmother Sarah (c. 1847 - c. 1885) I also do not know the whereabouts of John A. (c. 1846), Martha (c. 1848), Mary A. (c. 1849) or Jane (c. 1850). Note submitted by : Richard White April 20, 2002 ********************************************************************************************** Photos of Old Cemetery Sign, Historical Marker and Love Headstones can be seen at http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/thomas/photos/oldcem/oldcem.html