Southern Graves

I'm usually not a big fan of Old English lettering on gravestones, but in this instance, it seems quite apropos. Lucile Huey was born 26 October 1911 in Georgia to Lena Varn and L. M. Huey. She was a graduate of the Wesleyan (Macon, GA) and Cincinnati conservatories of music. Per a portion of her epitaph, it seems Lucile was a gifted classical music singer - Like a velvet note in a flood of tone, Her rich contralto voice Floated into the Choir Invisible. When Lucile was 22 years of age, she married Georgia Tech graduate William Edward Vinson (1908-1982). He was connected with the Ford Motor Company plant in Atlanta, and the young couple made that city their home. Lucile and William had been married about 13 months when she made a fatal decision to drink carbolic acid on a summer morning in July 1935. Lucile died that same evening at the Georgia Baptist Hospital . Her death certificate deemed the "injury" a suicide. Butler Herald  (Georgia) 11 July 1935 Poison Dose Proves ...

First Marcus , then Ella , and now Kittie. Benjamin Franklin and Jane Elizabeth (Cherry) Vinson lost another child in 1896. Kittie was just thirteen years old at her death. MISS VINSON DEAD. She Was a Popular Young Lady of Walden. Miss Katie [sic] Vinson, a beautiful and highly respected young lady just budding into womanhood died at her home at Walden yesterday. Miss Vinson was the daughter of Mr. B. F. Vinson, a prominent citizen of Walden. She will be buried at Liberty church this morning at 10 o'clock. A number of loving friends from Macon will attend the funeral. [ Macon Telegraph (Georgia), 15 July 1896, pg. 4. Via Georgia Historic Newspapers .] And, alas, there was yet another. The first child B. F. and J. E. Vinson lost was actually a son named Joseph B. He was only fifteen months old, and died around Christmas of 1885. Of the seven children I have listed for this couple, four died young. Burials at Liberty Church Cemetery (Bibb County, Georgia) occurre...

Ella Gertrude Vinson was born 1 October 1875 to Benjamin Franklin and Jane Elizabeth (Cherry) Vinson. A few days after her seventeenth birthday, 4 October 1892, Ella died. So just a few years after burying their son Marcus , the family returns to Liberty United Methodist Church (known then simply as Liberty Chapel) in Bibb County, Georgia to lay Ella to rest. The epitaph etched in Ella's tombstone tells of the sorrow felt by her family: While you are asleep with Jesus, We are lonely, darling, without you. Ella's death and funeral were chronicled in the Macon Telegraph , a local newspaper. Death of Miss Ella G. Vinson Walden, Oct 4 -- (Special.) -- Miss Ella G. Vinson, the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Vinson, died today at 2 p.m., at the residence of her father, near this place. She will be buried tomorrow at Liberty chapel burial ground at 2 o'clock... Miss Ella was a young lady of fine qualities and her untimely death is regretted by all... [ Macon Te...

© 2008-14 S. Lincecum A single weeping willow adorns the top of Marcus Franklin Vinson's tombstone at Liberty United Methodist Church Cemetery in Macon, Bibb County, Georgia. He was the son of Benjamin Franklin and Jane Elizabeth (Cherry) Vinson. Marcus was born 2 June 1874, and died less than two weeks before his fifteenth birthday on 20 May 1889. Of such is the kingdom of Heaven. I found a death notice for Marcus on page 3 of the 21 May 1889 Macon Telegraph , but it gave me pause since the parents listed for him were "Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Vinson": Via GenealogyBank . Marcus was enumerated for a US Federal census once, in 1880. He was listed as a 6-year-old son in the household of B. F. and Elizabeth Vinson (image available at Ancestry ). They were residing in Bibb County, Georgia. Walden, where the death notice points to, was a community in that county (and is still noted as such today). So I'm chalking this up to a typographical error. If I'm...

I have updated the information I have online for Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church and Cemetery in Crawford County, Georgia. I added transcriptions for all (and photos of some) of the VINSON gravestones, as well as some for possibly related families. Check it out!