Destroyed, Moved or Not Found Cemeteries
of Wilkinson County Ga.
Bailey Family-White.  Was located off to the left of Old Ball’s Ferry Road, going east. Info: J.T. Brady, Sr. 1998
Brady Family -White  Was located on right of Old Balls Ferry Rd. going East in pine thicket
just  before  the site of the Old Poplar Head Schoolhouse.
Info: Mr. Weyman Lord 1998
Burney Family - White 1 mile west of Old Balls Church location. (Not found.)  (Not found.) Green Blount Burney died 1866 and is  buried here according to Victor Davidson's History of Wilkinson County
Dent Road - White -was located south of Dent Rd toward Commissioner's Creek,   no visible signs of graves  In the 1940's there were 8 or 10 marked graves. One was Wiley Bartow "Pegleg" Shepherd who has a slab at Liberty Church. There was an wrought iron fence at one time and a 4' hogwire fence. Destroyed over years. Land now owned by Carbo Ceramics.  Info:  Harrell Moon
Garnder Family - Black Maddux Road, off Hwy 57 W Black, Depressions, no markers per Larry McAdams. Not found 2006
Gordon City #1 -no visible signs of graves Englehardt Kaolin office and yard sits on the site of this first Gordon cemetery. Info: Mrs. Gussie Mae Summers 
Gordon City #2. - White
Five children of Mr. And Thomas Willis were buried here
Was located in the field where the Gordon city sewage facility is now found. Info: Mrs. Gussie Mae Summers 
Manderson Family - White - Info: Larry McAdams
Mahaffey Family - White
The only known marker is as follows:
Thomas Mahaffey 1810 - 1880
Mr. C.W. Duke and  family moved this remaining marker from a ditch beside the road to Myrtle Springs Cemetery.
Family cemetery was located on the Old Ball’s Ferry Rd. It was pushed into the woods by a very prominent Wilkinson County citizen back in the 1960's. Were several grave and markers located here.

Info: Larry McAdams

Massey Family - White  The cemetery was located on the left side of Hwy 18 going up Massey Hill from Gordon.  Horses were corralled here and allowed to destroy it. Info: Larry McAdams
Methvin 1 and 2 - White Both Destroyed Info: Larry McAdams
Thompson Family - White White Map   Destroyed  Info:   Harold Thompson 
Unknown End of Hartford Road. Destroyed by a logging company in the 1950's. Upon close inspection, broken slabs and markers can be found. The broken stones and markers could still be seen at the end of the road in 1998.
Not found in 2006
Info: Larry McAdams
Unknown Smith Road, Southwest. Cemetery was on Smith Rd. at the end of Long Bridge Rd.  Kaolin pit is there now. On old maps.  Info: Eileen McAdams, Susan Harrington, Warren Layfield
Wynn Family- White Was near intersection of Little Sandy Creek Rd. & Long Branch Rd.
01. Celia S. Wynn    8/25/1871 - 10/14/1881
02. U.A. Wynn     3/30/1833 - 8/13/1902  C.S.A. 
Names  are from Wilkinson County Toombstone Records by Joe Maddox, published 1971. If the graves were there they have been moved to Bulloch County.   Algeron Cannon writes " The graves are in the Upper Mill Creek Baptist Church Cemetery in Bulloch County. Bulloch County, Georgia Cemeteries, Volume 3, page 119."


Eileen Babb McAdams Copyright 2006