I have been to the Old Stone Creek Cemetery and what I found was not very pleasing. That was about two years ago and I had to find it using my GPS using the coordinates posted on the internet. When I got there there was nothing that looked like a cemetery at all. As I scouted around I finally found one broken headstone laying flat on the ground and partially covered with weeds and leaves. The timber had been cut in the area including the cemetery area so I am under the belief that the timber cutter could not see that a cemetery exited and likely ran over it with heavy equipment. I believe too that with some labor from a number of interested people that the cemetery bounds can be located, cleaned up, and restored somewhat. I assume that the property has changed hands over the years so permission to do so would be required too. I don't think I have any relatives buried there but I know some ancestors attended the church in its early years so I have an interest in the early church and the cemetery. I have also read some of the minutes of congregational meetings. These are on microfilm in the Washington Library in Macon, Ga. The minutes give a lot of insight into the role the church played in the community over the years. It is really interesting reading. If you are looking to see if someone specific was a member, the minutes provided names of every person who joined. It also provides names of people were "excommunicated" and for what reasons. Some of the reasons then would not even be considered in churches today. You can also see the local responses to major events that occured in the history of the US. For instance there is several entries about the civil war which came pretty close to the church,as I remember reading. Again the cemetery was in terrible condition unless someone has taken action to change that since I last visited it. It was almost to the point of non-existant and it can only get worse as time marches on. I would be interested in seeing it cleaned up and restored and would be willing to assist if permission can be gotten to go on to the property and do the work. --- Scalawag1867@aol.com wrote: > Was it Baptist or Primitive Baptist? I am looking > for my gr gr gr grandpapa > in surrounding counties. Most of the Baptist in the > very early 1800s were still > Primitive Baptist. This was before they separated. > My Waldrops were members > of the Sweetwater Primitive Baptist Church in > Gwinnette County, Georgia. My gr > gr gr grandpapa died in Twiggs County in the early > 1820s. > > Sandra > > > ==== GATWIGGS Mailing List ==== > Visit the Twiggs County GAGenWeb Page > http://www.rootsweb.com/~gatwiggs > > > ============================== > 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 > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com

Tonya provided a transcription of the Stone Creek Cemetery --- (And possibly this survey was before the present described condition) and Cheryl has provided a Membership List. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/twiggs.htm If you know of people buried there -- or you are pretty sure they are buried there, I'll be glad to add it to the file as a "possible burial - no tombstone".... If anyone is ever able to transcribe a few more pages from the minutes -- we're always excited to add them. At 09:34 AM 9/28/2003 -0700, wayne bowden wrote: >I have been to the Old Stone Creek Cemetery and what I >found was not very pleasing. That was about two years >ago and I had to find it using my GPS using the >coordinates posted on the internet. When I got there >there was nothing that looked like a cemetery at all. >As I scouted around I finally found one broken >headstone laying flat on the ground and partially >covered with weeds and leaves. The timber had been >cut in the area including the cemetery area so I am >under the belief that the timber cutter could not see >that a cemetery exited and likely ran over it with >heavy equipment. > >I believe too that with some labor from a number of >interested people that the cemetery bounds can be >located, cleaned up, and restored somewhat. I assume >that the property has changed hands over the years so >permission to do so would be required too. I don't >think I have any relatives buried there but I know >some ancestors attended the church in its early years >so I have an interest in the early church and the >cemetery. > >I have also read some of the minutes of congregational >meetings. These are on microfilm in the Washington >Library in Macon, Ga. The minutes give a lot of >insight into the role the church played in the >community over the years. It is really interesting >reading. If you are looking to see if someone >specific was a member, the minutes provided names of >every person who joined. It also provides names of >people were "excommunicated" and for what reasons. >Some of the reasons then would not even be considered >in churches today. You can also see the local >responses to major events that occured in the history >of the US. For instance there is several entries >about the civil war which came pretty close to the >church,as I remember reading. > >Again the cemetery was in terrible condition unless >someone has taken action to change that since I last >visited it. It was almost to the point of >non-existant and it can only get worse as time marches >on. I would be interested in seeing it cleaned up and >restored and would be willing to assist if permission >can be gotten to go on to the property and do the >work. > > >--- Scalawag1867@aol.com wrote: > > Was it Baptist or Primitive Baptist? I am looking > > for my gr gr gr grandpapa > > in surrounding counties. Most of the Baptist in the > > very early 1800s were still > > Primitive Baptist. This was before they separated. > > My Waldrops were members > > of the Sweetwater Primitive Baptist Church in > > Gwinnette County, Georgia. My gr > > gr gr grandpapa died in Twiggs County in the early > > 1820s. > > > > Sandra > > > > > > ==== GATWIGGS Mailing List ==== > > Visit the Twiggs County GAGenWeb Page > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~gatwiggs > > > > > > ============================== > > 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 > > > > >__________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search >http://shopping.yahoo.com > > >==== GATWIGGS Mailing List ==== >Pat Evans >Twiggs County List Manager >http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Lake/8044 >surnames: evans, james, batchelor, bullington, haddock, davis, conine... > > >============================== >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 Virginia Crilley