FLETCHER FAMILY CEMETERY
By Larry Childs
tsts
This cemetery is on Georgia power property. It escaped removal when Georgia Power Built Lake Juliet. It is located on Colvin road 
in Monroe County GA.

Directions to this cemetery  from Forsyth Ga. Take State route 18 towards Gray Ga. About five miles out from Forsyth
Ga. Take Ebenezer Rd on the left to Ebenezer Cemetery. Take a right turn on Colvin road which is a small dirt road.
Follow this road until it runs to a chain across the road attached to two metal post. If the chain is up you may try
to get a Park Ranger at the office to un lock it for you. If  not the cemetery is located about ¼ mile down the road on
the right at the edge of a small field about two acres in size. It has a six foot Rio Grande fence around it.

The cemetery is in very bad shape with only one marked burial. There are about five to eight burials in the
cemetery. Most of the burials are in rock walled enclosures only one is outside a enclosure.

Buried outside enclosures

James Fletcher Born September 15, 1813 Died November 29, 1862
NOTE: James parents (Richard) attended  Holly Grove Church which is in this vicinity.

Small enclosure one unmarked enclosure maybe child

Large enclosure unknown burials possibly Taylor Family.
James's wife was a Taylor however she is buried in Bolingbrook with her family.

Second small enclosure one unmarked burial may be child

NOTES:
Name: Effy Fletcher 
Age: 69 
Estimated birth year: abt 1781 
Birth place: North Carolina 
Gender: Female 
Home in 1850(City,County,State): Division 60, Monroe, Georgia 

The 1840 census shows that there are four children. 
The 1830 census shows 
Name: Fletcher, Richard Township: Not Stated County: Monroe State: Georgia 

The 1830 census show that Richard had three sons in 1830 one being between 10 and 20 I believe this will be James Flether born 1813. 
By 1840 0ne of the younger boys is not with the family. 
The census also shows him with three girls by 1840 there are only two girls. 

By 1840 he is dead or missing as well as two children. 

I believe that Richard Fletcher born about 1780, and Julia are in the large rock wall enclosure and the two children are in the 
two small ones. There are clearly five burials and maybe three others. 

1850 United States Federal Census > Georgia > Monroe > Division 60 image 81

Fletcher, James 36 m farmer $2,000
  Julia A 27 f
  Eugene  6 m
FLETCHER,James  &   TAYLOR,Julia Ann     12/15/1842

1860 United States Federal Census > Georgia > Monroe > Dardens image 7
Flecher, James 42  farmer 2500 16,000
  Julia A. 37
  Eugenius 16
  Electu 7


1870 United States Federal Census > Georgia > Monroe  image 120

Fletcher, Julia  46 [1824]keeping house $3,00 $1200
  Stromer? 24 m
  Mattie C 16
Doughterty Wm 28 m w farm laborer born in ?Ill?

1880 United States Federal Census > Georgia > Monroe > District 466 > District 90 image 11

Fletcher, Julia w f 57  widow keeping house

1830 Census
FLETCHER                RICHARD        221
Marriages:
FLETCHER	Davis  &  JONES	Nancy    01/04/1826
FLETCHER	Henry B.  &   MERRITT	Mary E.     08/31/1843
FLETCHER	James  &   TAYLOR	Julia Ann     12/15/1842
FLETCHER	Mark H.  &   RAVINS	Martha J.     11/16/1842


1862 Salt List
Mrs. Thomas Fletcher  (wifes now in service)

Monroe County  Georgia Co K 53rd Regiment 
Fletcher, Thomas Jefferson - Private May 6, 1862.
Appointed 1st Sergeant February 1863. Elected 2d
Lieutenant July 1863. Wounded at Knoxville, Tenn.
November 29, 1863. Elected 1st Lieutenant May 6,
1864. Surrendered at Appomattox, Va. April 9, 1865.

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