Is that the elusive Ward Cemetery? >I'm sitting here looking through the Huxford POW books to see if there are >any more cemeteries that may have been missed or people that were buried >on "the old homeplace" > >In vol. 5, page 141, under the sketch of Thomas Ellis of Coffee County, it >says that he and his wives are buried in the old Ellis Cemetery in coffee >county. >I checked the cemetery book and neither he nor his two wives were listed. > >I'm also aware that these people may all be buried in unmarked graves, but >on the off-chance that they're not, I'd like to find them. > >**Here's another one** >Jackson Ward, son of James P & Zilpa (Kirkland) Ward, 1817-1901 >Had a home and plantation in what was once Telfair but now Coffee The >homeplace is about 1 1/1 miles west of the "present village of West Green" >He and his wife were buried on this old homeplace where their graves are >marked.... > >Now we still don't know what they're marked with or even if some farmer >left them undisturbed. > >Anyone have any ideas on how I might go about finding these graves? > >Melody > > >==== GACOFFEE Mailing List ==== >Please visit the Coffee County GaGenWeb site at >http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/5941 > >============================== >Search more than 150 million free records at RootsWeb! >http://searches.rootsweb.com/
The old Ellis Cemetery is located about one half mile east of Highway 221 south, near the Coffee - Jeff Davis County line. John B. Ellis > Is that the elusive Ward Cemetery? > >I'm sitting here looking through the Huxford POW books to see if there are > >any more cemeteries that may have been missed or people that were buried > >on "the old homeplace" > > > >In vol. 5, page 141, under the sketch of Thomas Ellis of Coffee County, it > >says that he and his wives are buried in the old Ellis Cemetery in coffee > >county. > >I checked the cemetery book and neither he nor his two wives were listed. > > > >I'm also aware that these people may all be buried in unmarked graves, but > >on the off-chance that they're not, I'd like to find them. > > > >**Here's another one** > >Jackson Ward, son of James P & Zilpa (Kirkland) Ward, 1817-1901 > >Had a home and plantation in what was once Telfair but now Coffee The > >homeplace is about 1 1/1 miles west of the "present village of West Green" > >He and his wife were buried on this old homeplace where their graves are > >marked.... > > > >Now we still don't know what they're marked with or even if some farmer > >left them undisturbed. > > > >Anyone have any ideas on how I might go about finding these graves? > > > >Melody > > > > > >==== GACOFFEE Mailing List ==== > >Please visit the Coffee County GaGenWeb site at > >http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/5941 > > > >============================== > >Search more than 150 million free records at RootsWeb! > >http://searches.rootsweb.com/ > > > > > ==== GACOFFEE Mailing List ==== > Please visit the Coffee County GaGenWeb site at > http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/5941 > > ============================== > Add as many as 10 Good Years To Your Life > If you know how to reduce these risks. > http://www.thirdage.com/health/wecare/hearthealth/index.html > > John B.Ellis jbellis@altamaha.net