Lisa keeps working on typing up her notes from her visit to the Trice Cemetery --- and here's the answer to my question about WHY it is called Trice. (**Lisa is doing such a great job!! And if you have ever tried to transcribe a cemetery, you know how much work it is. Not only trying to juggle the notepad and pencil, but also typing your scribbly notes once you get home!) Now, we just need you Trice researchers to help us with some of the relationships. Since they appear to be all related to the original Trice family in some way....but we'd like to add this information right to the name. Please, if you have any family buried in Trice Cemetery, let me hear from you. The basic information will be typed....we would just need you to help us with who they belong to. Historical Marker Upson County, Georgia Trice Cemetery, the largest burial ground in Upson County, Georgia, was established by William and Jane Tamplin Trice whose house once stood 300 yards west of the Cemetery. William (1789-1858) and Jane (1794-1856), both buried here were among the earliest settlers of Upson County (created December 1824). They moved to Upson from Jones County, Georgia, circa 1823 when the area was still Pike County, formerly Monroe. The oldest marked grave, dated 1837, is that of their Daughter, Milly Ann Trice Nelson. In 1857, James Trice, oldest son of William and Jane, commissioned the building of the Rock wall surrounding the original Cemetery. For this purpose he rented a slave, a skilled rock mason, from another planter. The date is carved into the Southwest corner stone. In 1904 additional land was donated by John Reeves Roberts, son-in-law of Milly Ann Nelson, "... for the purpose of providing a burial ground for the relatives of James Trice and such others as may be allowed..." All those buried within these walls are either descendants of William and Jane Trice, members of their allied families, or slaves owned by the family. Marble markers now replace the field stones which once marked the graves of the slaves. Trice Cemetery is maintained by contributions to the Trice Cemetery Memorial Association. Driving Directions: Yatesville Hwy 74 East, turn on Trice Road, Cemetery is on corner of Trice Cemetery Road and Trice Road. Virginia Crilley