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

I have identified at least half a dozen "unmarked cemeteries" in Jeff Davis County alone. In the instance of Thomas Ellis, he and his second wife are buried at Philadelphia Baptist Church Cemetery in Jeff Davis Co. The original headstones were not there so they were to be considered unmarked. About 30 years ago his last remaining granddaughter identified his and his wife's graves and markers were placed on them. Thomas Ellis's first wife is buried in an old church cemetery just south of Bartow, Fla. in an unmarked grave. The old cemetery is still maintained but suffers from constant damage from mowing equipment. John B. Ellis > 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/ > >