WILKINSON COUNTY, GA - CEMETERY  Joel Butler

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DIRECTIONS:
From the courthouse in Irwinton, GA, take US 441
south for 5.2 miles to the junction with Georgia
Highway 96.  Turn right on 96.  From this junction,
proceed 4.8 miles (milepost 4.7).  Look for a white
house with a sign in the front yard stating "Jackson
Place".  Directly across the roa,d  the cemetery is
300 feet to the right (north) of the highway.  There
is a small sign at the edge of the right-of-way. A
little sign up on the small embankment states Butler
Family Cemetery. 


JOEL BUTLER CEMETERY
HWY 96 WILKERSON COUNTY, GA.

Adeline Butler
Wife of G.W. Butler
Sept. 22, 1833
July 20, 1912

Infant of G.E. & Fletan Butler
Born & Died
Jan. 16, 1910

Belinda Butler 
Wife of Joel Butler
Died Feb. 27,1861
Aged about 50 Years

Geo. W. Butler
Born- Nov. 27, 1835
Died- Oct. ??, 1870
(this is on the bottom half of the stone)
 Dearest Father, thou hath left us, 
Here thy looss we deeply feel;
But t'is God who hath bereft us,
He can all our sorrow's heal.
Yet again we hope to meet thee,
When the day of life is fled;
Then in Heaven with joy to greet thee,
Where no farewell tear is shed.


Joel Butler
Born in the year 1787
Died Augt. 27,1862
Aged about 75 years

Joel Jackson Butler
Was born Jan. 17, 1848
Died Dec. 3, 1932

Julia A. Butler
Daughter of 
G.W. & E.A. Butler
Born- Mar. 14, 1870
Died- Mar. 16, 1907

Little Mary W. 
Daughter  of G.W. & E.A. Butler
Born Aug. 22, 1879
Died Nov. 17, 1884
Farewell my little
Darling, we are part??
Here a little while, but 
I hope we'll meet in 
	HEAVEN

Notes:
I copied these exactly the way they appear on the
stones. I did not correct any spelling or grammar.
This graveyard is very bad shape. A lot of the head
stones and markers are toppled over. The first time
I visited the graveyard Belinda's head stone was
laying face down, flat on the ground. I managed to
stand it up so that I could read it. It is a
beautiful hand carved stone. It has a 3-D appearance
to it.  I left it propped up so that the rain would
wash the dirt off.  When I returned a few months
later, ( I waited until deer season was over.) I
could see that it was a white marble stone. I have
some digital pictures that I made of the individual
stones. I also took some of the entire gravesite so
you could see the fallen trees and other damage that
has occurred.