WILKINSON COUNTY GA New Providence Baptist Church Cemetery (Burke family) File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Toni Burke Callaway WilmaF1int@aol.com NEW PROVIDENCE BAPTIST CHURCH CEMETERY Location:Go out Main Street in Jeffersonville, Ga about 7 to eight miles. (Highway 96). Other names: Allgood, Burke, Carswell, Collins, Hawkins, Mercer, Mickler, Reese, White. I estimate 150 graves more or less This is a partial listing....if you have family information to contribute, I will be glad to add it: Virginia Crilley varcsix@hot.rr.com BURKE FAMILY buried in New Providence Baptist Church Cemetery in Wilkinson County, GA Nimrod Burke (tall monument inside iron fence) b 11/25/1810 d 8/22/1892 Elizabeth Butler Burke b 11/9/1816 d 11/22/1890 2 of their children: Joel Burke b 8/3/1840 d 2/18/1872 Sarah Fredonia Burke Holliman b 5/1/1850 d 10/27/1868 Nimrod's brother: John Burke b 1/19/1817 d 4/14/1887 (behind monument) and his wife Sara Jane Carswell Burke b 9/21/1831 d 6/21/1888 Sarah Jane's father: Samuel M. Carswell b 3/23/1798 d 11/9/1857 John Franklin Burke b 5/18/1846 d 12/8/1919 Lenora Elizabeth Carswell Burke b 12/14/1849 d 12/27/1915 their children: Rosa E. Burke b 2/11/1880 d 3/14/1881 George Franklin Burke b 3/2/1872 d 11/28/1885 (shot self in hunting accident) Elizabeth Lenora Burke Wimberly b 1025/1873 d 8/28/1910 Clara Pauline Burke White b 1/18/1878 d 6/14/1963 Albert Norman Burke, Sr. b 2/27/1876 d 5/20/1956 wife of A N, Sr. Lonnie Annie Denson Burke b 11/7/1888 d 12/11/1968 Albert and Lonnie's children: 2 are still living Ellen Burke Botdorf b 4/3/1906 d 8/29/1969 Daniel Lee Burke b 12/3/1925 d 12/7/1991 Augustus Nimrod Burke b 11/18/1920 d 1/30/1983 Roy Denson Burke b 10/18/1916 d 7/17/1999 John Franklin Burke, II b 1/5/1919 d 9/24/1998 Sarah Burke Mercer b 5/16/1909 d 7/7/1951 and spouse John Pinckney Mercer b 5/10/1911 d 7/7/1951 Albert Norman Burke, Jr. b 11/7/1911 d 8/12/1986 Albert JR's children: Alfred Henry Burke b 8/4/1935 (a twin) Clay Everett Burke, Sr. b 11/26/1938 d 12/7/1981 (victim of armed robbery) John Wayne Burke b 7/17/1945 d 9/1/1994 June Burke Panter b 6/7/1941 d 3/29/1997 Sara Paul Denson Solomon b 9/15/1863 d 12/18/1942 (Lonnie Annie's mother) The property, the New Providence Baptist Church in Wilkinson County, was given by William Edward Carswell born April 30, 1807 died February 11, 1830. He and his wife Elizabeth Jane Gilbert are buried there. (The granduncle of Lenora Elizabeth Carswell who married Albert Norman Burke, Sr.) Reference: Alexander Carswell and Isabella Brown, Their Ancestors and Descendants by Mildred and George Bond (page 62). ========== Sarah F. (Burke) Holliman 1 May 1850 died 27 Oct 1868 first wife of Joel Holliman Dtr. of Nimrod and Elizabeth Butler Burke Sylvia sglinde1@attbi.com ======================== 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.