I live in California and am unable to help, but would like to help organize an effort to reclaim/ restore the first "Old Stone Creek" Baptist Church cemetry. If there is anyone interested please let me know. Hopefully we could get the Twigg County historical society to run it. Sam SamsPAD@attbi.com > According to a Bibb Co., Ga. Chappell cousin who has ancestors buried at the > old Stone Creek cemetery, it is so overgrown that it is no longer accessible > without extreme effort. Maybe interested folks could get together and > arrange a "reclamation project." I'm too old to help physically, but would > be glad to help hire a few strong backs. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <SamsPAD@attbi.com> > To: <GATWIGGS-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 12:14 AM > Subject: Re: [GATWIGGS] Re: History of Stone Creek Baptist Church > > > > Has anyone every gone out to the first "Old Stone Creek" > > cemetery? My GGGGrandfather is buried there and I am > > interested in getting copy's of any pictures ect. > > > > This area needs to be documented and pictures taken, If > > none exist. > > > > Sam > > > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > > > > > Classification: Query > > > > > > Message Board URL: > > > > > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/5d.2ADE/97.100 > > > > > > Message Board Post: > > > > > > There were two Stone Creek cemeteries. The original church cemetery > according > > > to The History of Twiggs County was located near the Bibb-Twiggs county > line > > > where the church was located. Several of the old graves there are > marked but > > > the names are not listed in the book. Stone Creek Cemetery II has a > census > > > listing in the above book. I have a copy of it along with many of the > > > cemeteries located in Twiggs County. The book was written in the 1950's > and and > > > I do have a copy. > > > > > > Church records for many of these old Baptist churches are located at > Mercer > > > University in Macon, GA. > > > > > > > > > ==== GATWIGGS Mailing List ==== > > > > > > > > > > > > ============================== > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > ==== GATWIGGS Mailing List ==== > > > > > > > > ============================== > > 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 > > > > > > > ==== GATWIGGS Mailing List ==== > Post your Queries for Twiggs County > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ga/Twiggs > > > ============================== > 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 >