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    1. Woodson Cemetery
    2. Virginia Crilley
    3. William E. Bartlett, Jr. tbgfairfax@msn.com is the person who is trying to help save Woodson Cemetery from the construction that is planned which will be devastating to it. We're trying to get people to write to the Planning Commission in Bibb County to have them prevent this....and if you are willing to write, I'll supply you with the information. In the meantime, I thought perhaps someone might know more about the people that he listed as probably being buried there. Woodson Cemetery is one of the oldest cemeteries in Bibb County and was an Indian burial ground before Lizella (originally Warrior) became a white settlement in 1821. There are three known Indian mounds in the cemetery. The cemetery was situated between the Bartlett and Pender family homesites (south of what is now Lake Arrowhead Park) and most of the burials consist of those families . The cemetery is located in the woods on a hill about 300 yards to the left of the road going to Arrowhead Lake Park - about a city block before reaching the Park entrance gate. (Turn off Columbus Road about a mile before reaching Lizella.) Bethena Elizabeth Singleton Jones 1912 (only marker) Others buried there marked with field stones include: William Bartlett (1858) Nancy Bartlett (1865) Jesse Bartlett (1863) Pency Ann Stokes Bartlett (1890) Thomas Jefferson Bartlett Rachel Renfrow Bartlett Josiah Pender (1872) Celia Wyche Pender Nancy Bartlett Pender Jeremiah Willis Pender.

    11/15/2004 09:23:53