Southern Graves

Not a great title, I know, but I couldn't resist the alliteration... I've been giving you snippets for about seven months, and I'm finally ready to share everything in one place. Photos from Fairview Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Lawrenceville, Gwinnett County, Georgia are now all online -- more than 110 of them. As a reminder, you can view them as a slideshow or individuals, and comments are enabled. Click on the small slideshow below to go to the Picasa Web Album. Enjoy! Surnames included are the following: Adair, Alexander, Bagby, Brown, Byrd, Carter, Casey, Craig, Crow/e, Dunlap, Gossett, Green, Gresham, Haney, Hood, Huff, Hutchins, Jackson, Kelley, Liddell, McGee, Mitchell, Moss, Noel, Pattersen, Rakestraw, Reid, Roberts, Russell, Simmons, Sparks, Steadman, Strickland, Stuart, Terrell, Thompson, Wight, Williams, and Wilson.

Mollie G. Wife of Pennal Jackson Daughter of M. L. & M. W. Sammon Born Oct 12, 1858 Died Sept 15, 1888 And Little Dau. Mollie Born Aug 10, 1888 Died Apr 16, 1889 Aged 8 Mos. & 6 Dys. A faithful Christian and kind mother of six children. "Be kind to my little children." Fairview Presbyterian Church Cemetery Lawrenceville, Gwinnett County, Georgia Photo © 2010/1 S. Lincecum

The Jackson Four Yesterday I introduced you to " the Jackson four ," a group of three siblings and their sister-in-law buried in Fairview Presbyterian Church Cemetery at Lawrenceville, Gwinnett County, Georgia. Today I would like to focus on the sister-in-law, Mittie P. Jackson: In Memory of Mittie P. Jackson Wife of B. M. Jackson Born Nov 7, 1882 Died Feb 12, 1919 Here is one who is sleeping in faith and love, with hope that is treasured in Heaven above. While searching for information about Mrs. Mittie Jackson, I was fortunate to find her death certificate via FamilySearch.org and the Georgia Deaths, 1914-1927 database. In it, her cause of death was described as "puerperal eclampsia." This condition lasted for 1 & 3/4 days, and a contributory cause was her pregnancy of five months. An online medical dictionary (with the American Heritage Medical Dictionary listed as the source) describes this condition as "Convulsions and coma that are...

From left to right:  Mittie P. Jackson (1882-1919), Roscoe W. Jackson (1883-1963), Daisy May Jackson (1894-1944) and Lyndon W. Jackson (1887-1946). These members of the JACKSON family are resting in the Fairview Presbyterian Church Cemetery at Lawrenceville, Gwinnett County, Georgia. According to a couple of online family trees and census records at Ancestry , Roscoe W., Daisy May, and Lyndon W. are all children of Charles Montgomery Jackson and Mary E. Wardlaw. Mittie P. Jackson was a daughter-in-law. Charles and Mary were also laid to rest within the same cemetery.

Yesterday I shared with you a tombstone and epitaph placed in Oak Hill Cemetery for Nellie B. Jackson . I've since learned the phrase " To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die " is a quote from Thomas Campbell 's poem Hallowed Ground . It is quite a long poem; I'm not going to post it here. (I already have one scheduled for you tomorrow.) I did include Hallowed Ground in my new Southern Epitaphs blog / database, if you're interested and would like to read it there --> To Live in Hearts We Leave Behind...

Nellie B. Jackson Daughter of Joseph B. & Sarah VanHorn Jackson Died Oct 1st, 1886 Aged 40 y'rs. "To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die." When reviewing the above transcription, I became acutely aware of the date.  Today is the 123rd anniversary of the death of Ms. Nellie Jackson.  While hoping her epitaph is true, I put Nellie in my heart.

Jerome Powell Jackson died on this date 22 years ago. Mr. Jackson, a US Navy veteran, was born 6 May 1918. He was buried in Bonaire Cemetery in Houston County, Georgia.