Upson COUNTY GA Cemetery PERSONS Family File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Sherri cerulia@alltel.net http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/upson/cemeteries/persons.txt ======================== 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. ============== PERSONS CEMETERY Location: One Mile East of Yatesville on right side of Macon Highway to Culloden The cemetery is on a curve, and there is a "pull-over" area suitable for parking, but due to the curve care must be taken when pulling back out into the road. It is just before the Monroe County line in Upson County. On the left side, just past the cemetery, is the old Stallings home, a while clapboard farmhouse. It straddles the county line. Facing the cemetery from Highway 74, on the right side: Grave 1: PERSONS, Mrs. Malinda Ann Lyon b. March 13, 1825 d. March 15, 1908 (wife of Lovatt Persons) She is a descendant of the Lyon family of Yatesville, probably the daughter of Rev. James Lyon. Malinda Ann Lyon Persons' grave marker is of a large chaise-lounge design tall enough to sit upon. It is the only grave in the cemetery which has not been vandalized. Destroyed/missing headstones: Grave 2: PERSONS, Lovett b. May 22, 1814 d. Nov. 13, 1862 (married Malinda Lyon Aug. 10, 1841 in Monroe County,Ga) Since this grave was read in 1968, the pillar-type headstone has been broken off and the part with the name and date has been stolen, so there is now no way to confirm this particular grave is Lovett's. The flat slab that once lay atop the grave has migrated underneath Mrs. Persons' "chaise lounge" and is nearly completely buried, with only a few inches still showing. Grave 3: unknown adult grave with the remains of a broken pink granite or marble headstone still remaining. Again, the part with names and dates has been stolen. Graves 4(-5) seem to be infant grave(s) (possibly those Morris is seeking) with Grave 6 being an adult grave. Again the shattered headstones have had the pertinent parts stolen. It is assumed these burials are of the descendants of Lovett and Malinda Lyon who died after 1850. They had seven children: Mary Ann E. Persons m.Allen J. Williams (issue) Sarah E. Persons m. John Walker Miller (issue); Susan Diana Persons m. Peyton Ward (issue); Emma Persons, second wife of John Trice Abercrombie (no issue); Erastus Persons m. Eula Zellner (issue); Charles Persons m. Susan Wilcoxson (moved to Texas, nfi); Lula Persons m. Lee McLester (issue). The left side of the cemetery has no markers whatsover, but have rectangular depressions that seem to indicate burials. Possible burials: 1. Jones Persons, Revolutionary War soldier. According to information received from a DAR researcher who did a listing of RWS graves in this area he was buried in "a family cemetery between Yatesville and Culloden." Also, in "Persons Lineage," George Fuller Walker writes that Jones was "buried near Yatesville." Jones was b. about 1760 in Bute (later Granville) County, N.C., to John and Prudence Jones Persons and died bef. Dec. 30, 1850 in Monroe County, Ga., near Culloden (probably Strouds, where many of his children settled). Estate papers available at the Thomaston-Upson Archives show his son Lovett Persons arranged to have a mason build a wall around his burial place; the estate paid the bill. 2. Diana Neal Persons was born in Georgia around 1775 to Thomas and Sarah Neal; married Jones Persons about 1790, probably in Warren County, Ga.; and died July 16, 1859 in Strouds, Monroe County, Ga., or Yatesville, Upson County, Ga. It stands to reason they would have been buried together, so both are included in my "possible" burials. There is room on this side of the cemetery for four to six more graves, depending on size (adult or child). Additional Researcher: RWS Jones Persons Possible burials CHARLIE ROBERT and MAGGIE WILDER PARHAM