The things I have heard here, causes me distress, With a church like this who needs the devil.Why in the name of humanity would supposedly Christian people be so self centered ? I guess, I just need more religion to under stand it all. Buying stock in creamation! [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: Paula <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 12:50 AM Subject: Re: [GA-CEM] Whitfield County Web Site > Nellie, > I can tell you just a bit about the cemetery. The survey that I have online > is a complete one unless there are some unmarked graves that no one is aware > of. The caretakers of the cemetery (the church) supposedly destroyed the > only lists that anyone might have had of who was buried there or that is the > answer I got when I started asking questions because I wanted to check the > list off against what I had surveyed to see if I had everyone. There is one > name on my survey that I did not find in the cemetery and I got the name > from the Whitfield County Cemetery book for which the surveys were made back > in the 70's. The guy may have had a funeral home marker and it been > destroyed by now so that may be why I couldn't find it. > Anyway, the land for the church and the cemetery was donated by the Lindsey > family from what I was told by Miss Birdie. She had also told me years ago > to not worry that I would always have a place to be buried but now the > church says no, that anyone other than church members must pay the church > for the space. The only ones that I was personally acquainted with were J. > R.(Rob) and Miss Birdie. Rob was a hard man to like but Miss Birdie was one > of the sweetest people on this earth. I visited with her many times when I > was much younger and just wish that I had had enough since to work on > genealogy and stuff way back then. > I can't really tell you anything about the family but that they were some of > the first people to settle out in the Lower Mill Creek area of the county. > I also don't know what the relationship to each other the ones buried in the > cemetery are except that there is a relationship. > Good luck with your search, > Paula > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nellie Mace" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 1:04 AM > Subject: Re: [GA-CEM] Whitfield County Web Site > > > > I am interested in this cemetery as my GG Grandmother Elizabeth Lindsey > > Alsobrook's mother was Phoebe Whitfield and married a Lindsey. There has > to > > be some connection here somewhere, I think. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Paula" <[email protected]> > > To: <[email protected]> > > Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 7:52 AM > > Subject: [GA-CEM] Whitfield County Web Site > > > > > > > I have just completed and added the survey of Lindsey Memorial Church > > Cemetery to the Whitfield County Web site at: > > > http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ga/county/whitfield > > > > ==== GA-CEMETERIES Mailing List ==== > Checkout the other lists being watched over by your List Mom; > http://mailing_lists.homestead.com/lists.html > To learn more about my world visit http://dwp.bigplanet.com/kburnett > The GA-CEMETERY Volunteer and Cemetery Inventory site: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gacemete/ > To search the Archives of this list http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl type in GA-CEMETERIES > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >