Shiloh Church is in Cherokee County about a 1/4 from the Dawson county line. Do you remember Stancil's store on Yellow Creek Road? Shiloh Church Road is about a 1/2 mile south of the store. The Dawson county line is about another 1/4 mile or so from the Church. The road is called Shiloh Church Road at the intersection with Yellow Creek Road but it changes to Cowart Road after you cross into Dawson County. To give you perspective, to reach the Forsyth county line, you travel about another 1 mile south on Yellow Creek Road to Ophir Church (Old Federal Road) and turn east -- the Forysth County line is less than a 1/2 mile from the intersection. The Pickens county line is about 2 miles north of Stancil's store. (My mileage estimates are rough -- I'm really bad at estimating miles. I typically think of distances in terms of minutes. In these cases I've described -- you could literally travel through all four counties in the span of 10 minutes or less.) I have a bit of information on Amanda Myra Williams' descendants for two reasons -- Sion Jacob Lawson was part of my Lawson line and their son Augustus Lawson married my great-grandmother Ida Roper Bannister's sister, Elizabeth Roper. -------------- Original message -------------- > Rebecca, > > Yes, we have corresponded briefly in the past on the Bannister line. They > married into the Dooley/Dooly family in Forsyth Co. GA. > > Augustus Williams was a son of Jonathan Middleton Williams from Rutherford > County, NC. Augustus and wife, Sarah Whitesides Ledbetter, moved with her > family, Johnson Ledbetter, to Lumpkin County, GA about 1838. I have some, but > very little, information on your connection, the Lawson family. I knew they > connected, but I do not have much, other than knowing their was a connection. If > your Williams from SC are connected to the family of Augustus Williams it would > be a very distant cousin, and so far I have not found any connection between the > NC and SC Williams families. Not that there is not a connection... just that I > have not found it. Sorry I can't help there. > > I understand about all those county lines being so close and what county every > thing is located in that corner of those adjoining counties is very confusing. > I have been there, but that was years ago, and on our tour of cemeteries I never > knew what road we were on, or what county we were in, because they are all so > close to each other. Isn't Shiloh cemetery located in that small area where the > counties join and not far from the Forsyth/Dawson county line, but over in > Cherokee County? Do you know the road it is located on? > > Looking forward to hearing from you, > Flora > ----- Original Message ----- > From: > To: > Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 1:35 PM > Subject: Re: [GACHEROK-L] Shiloh Methodist Cemetery -WILLIAMS, LEDBETTER & DOOLY > > > > Flora, if I'm not mistaken, we have corresponded on the Dooley line. > Elizabeth Dooley Banister, daughter of James Dooley and Ruth Giley Anderson is > my 3rd great-grandmother. > > > > First -- I am positive the cemetery you are seeking is Shiloh Methodist. This > area of Cherokee County has confused many a researcher, I assure you. I was > raised there and I have to think twice sometimes. To completely research > families there you have to cover four census districts -- Conns Creek in > Cherokee County, Yellow Creek in Dawson, Dug Road in Pickens and Hightower in > Forsyth. The church cemeteries are even more confusing -- in a five mile radius > there are at least half a dozen possibilities -- Shiloh, Ophir, Mount Vernon, > Lebanon, Yellow Creek, Mica, Conns Creek -- and I'm probably forgetting some. > > > > I have a (barely) working knowledge of many of the families in the area since > they were either my family or collateral lines in some way. Amanda Myra > Williams, daughter of Augustus married my 3rd great uncle, Sion Jacob Lawson. I > have tried for years to determine the origin of that Williams family. I have a > Williams line in the Pendleton District of South Carolina who moved to Cherokee > County but I haven't found any connection between these two Williams families. > I'm not at my personal computer to look up the census, but I think Augustus was > living in the Conns Creek district in 1850. > > > > Can I give your email address to a Ledbetter researcher? 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