I have been off line for several days. This is a great story! Valerie with Lynn are a full library of info and it is great! Barbara S. Dayhuff > -----Original Message----- > From: VCJFreeman@aol.com [mailto:VCJFreeman@aol.com] > Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2002 3:50 PM > To: GAPIKE-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [GAPIKE] Beeks, GA/Horton Cemetery - a wonderful of how it was > "found" again! > > > Lynn (and anyone else that is interested) -- > > Thank you for taking the time to give me a mental picture of the > area. I can > to the area along I-85 b/t Atlanta & Auburn (War Eagle!) fairly > well. Get me > off that space and I am lost. This is my husband's line, not > mine. I am a > Southern California native :-) > > I realize now, I should have asked the relationship b/t Beeks and > Williamson, > not Beeks and Hollonville. But your "picture" was wonderful! > > Now, a little more about the Horton Cemetery > > > Just before you turn on Beeks Road off Hollonville Road, there is a > cemetery on > > the map that is not named - this may be the Horton Cemetery. > > Horton Cemetery is "lost." It was on property that belonged to Peyton > Flournoy Horton. It has either been concreted over, had a building built > over it, or just plain lost to overgrown growth. > > To make a long story short, in the summer or fall of 2001, I was > contacted by > Mary J. (Horton) Hall and her sister, Sandra (Horton) Hall. The > had seen my > work on the Hortons and were looking to see if there was a connection b/t > their line and the Hortons of Pike Co. Yes, there was! They are > descendants > of Pike Co pioneers, William B. & Mary Horton, through their son, Peyton > Flournoy Horton and 2nd (of 3) wife, Susan Fitts. > > Sandra had recently relocated from the Powder Springs area to > Williamson, GA. > The ironic thing is, Sandra knew NOTHING of her Horton > connections to Pike > Co.! She had never heard of Williamson until she went looking for a new > location for her dog kennel business!! And she ended up moving > to land that > was just within a mile or two of where her Horton ancestors had > settled in > the 1820s!! > > The final Peyton F. Horton place was at this location, per Joe Cannafax: > > "The Old Peyton F. Horton - Garfield Hutchison Homeplace is on > Hutchinson Rd > -- it runs off Hwy 362 just below Williamson going toward > Hollonville, the > home place is on the right. It's an old farm house and someone > is living in > it today." > > Sandra actually made a visit to the folks and could find only a > few graves. > > She then went on a mission! She went to the courthouse and > obtained a list > of all the land Peyton had owned! In the end, the location of where we > believe the family cemetery was is NOT at the location graciously > given to us > by Joe C. (Keep in mind the Hortons are not a direct line -- I just got > deeply involved to help out them out cause I enjoy a hunt and > they do tie to > Bob's Coggins & Nixons!) Sandra was able to make the location. > I believe it > was near Williamson near the Spalding Co line. I would have to go back > through all the e-mails we traded around over a several month time frame. > > The amazing conclusion to this is that Mary & Sandra's ancestors > were more or > less buried on property that is adjacent to the property Sandra > now lives on! > Talk about serendipity. > > I hope Mary (Horton) Hall will jump in with the parts of the > story/location I > am missing, as I know she is sub'd to this list. > > Valerie (Johnson) Freeman > Tustin, California > > "Remember your history. To forget is to not belong." > ~~ Charlotte A. Black Elk > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy > records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >