Southern Graves

Joseph Daniel Pritchett was born 9 September 1917 at Juliette, Monroe County, Georgia. A week before his 23rd birthday, Joseph was killed. His skull was fractured in a motorcycle accident. Macon Telegraph (Georgia) Tuesday, 3 September 1940 [via GenealogyBank ] Auto - 'Cycle Crash Kills Upson Man [ Special to The Telegraph ] GRIFFIN, Sept. 2 -- Joseph Daniel Pritchett, 23, Thomaston, was killed instantly in a motorcycle-auto collision about a mile and a half north of here on the Atlanta highway about 5:45 p.m. today. Pritchett was driving the motorcycle...which crashed into the side of a car... ...[B]oth vehicles were heading north and...the accident occurred when the car made a left turn into a filling station... Pritchett had been accepted by the army as a recruit today and was en route to Fort Oglethorpe. Macon Telegraph (Georgia) Saturday, 7 September 1940 - pg. 2 [via GenealogyBank] Deaths JOSEPH D. PRITCHETT FORSYTH, Sept. 6 -- Joseph D. Pritchett, aged 22,...

I was surprised at the number of ceramic photos (sometimes known as porcelain pictures ) I found while traipsing through Forsyth Cemetery and its subdivision called Rest Haven in Monroe County, Georgia. Young soldiers and children were prevalent. From the 1940s to the 2000s. Below are the nineteen I photographed. J. Ponder Carson (1868-1943) H. Walter Carson (1873-1943) *brother of J. Ponder Calvin Clifford Hudson (1946-1967) James T. Pritchett (1881-1941) Bessie W. Pritchett (1884-1967) *wife of James T. Joseph D. Pritchett (1917-1940) *son of James & Bessie John W. Martin (1943-1966) Samuel F. Anderson, Jr. (1929-1954) Joyce A. Belknap (1953-1970) James Floyd Mitchell (1901-1962) Ozella McCord Mitchell (1903-1990) *wife of James Floyd William Raymond Maddox, Sr. (1918-1984) Lucille Bates Maddox (1919-1996) *wife of William Raymond Gail Eugenia Maddox (1946-1959) *daughter of William & Lucille Sharron Crutchfield (...