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    1. [GAPIKE] Beeks, GA/Horton Cemetery - a wonderful of how it was "found" again!
    2. 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

    11/16/2002 07:50:17