Vans Creek Baptist Church is a few miles east of Elberton, on a side road. It was founded about 1784 by Rev. Dozier Thornton, who was its minister for some 40 years. There is a cemetery adjacent to the church. but I do not recall any legible headstones as early as 1822. There are some rock cairns without names. The book, "Early Cemeteries and Gravestones, Elbert County, Georgia, 1798--1919," does not mention Tom Tilton's Walker Richardson. It does mention Prudence Thompson's second husband, Benjamin Brown, who is buried in a cemetery named Benjamin Brown Cemetery, east of Elberton and south of the old Ruckersville Road--which runs close to Vans Creek Church. --Jim Lee