ORANGE HILL CEMETERY, PULASKI COUNTY, GA - Brown, Hamilton, Matthews
 
Submitted: 09/22/2000
 
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This is a partial listing transcribed:
September 17, 2000
 
This cemetery is located in Hawkinsville. The following listings are members
of my family. Since I now live in New Jersey, I will not be able to provide 
further transcriptions.
 
The burial area is fenced with wrought iron, with a gate that can be opened for 
entrance. All of the sites include very tall monuments.
 
1.  WILLIAM C. HAMILTON
  BORN MARCH 28, 1813
  DIED OCT. 15, 1879
 A KIND HUSBAND , AFFECTIONATE FATHER, GOOD MASTER,
 CHARITABLE TO THE NEEDY AND HONEST IN ALL HIS
 DEALINGS WITH MANKIND
 
 (This is a very tall monument, the base of which is inscribed with the
 surname: HAMILTON
 
2.  MARY A
  WIFE OF
  E. MATHEWS
  BORN MAY 21, 1818
  DIED JULY 3, 1895
  A LOVING MOTHER, A DEVOTED WIFE, AND AN HUMBLE CHRISTIAN
 
 (this is also a very tall monument, the base of which is inscribed with the
  surname: MATHEWS)
 
  (N.B. Mary was Ephriam Mathew’s second wife)
 
3.  (facing the gravesite, this tombstone is to the right, and slightly ahead of
  Mary A Mathews grave)
 
  EPHRIAM MATHEWS
  BORN ? 3, 1827
  DIED A ????, 1908
 
 The base of this very tall monument is inscribed with the surname: MATHEWS
 
 In back of the monument is laid a marble slab, inscribed with "E. MATHEWS"
 In front of the monumnet and the slab is an upright marker with the following 
 inscription:
 
  CAPT MORGAN’S CAVALRY
 1861 - 1865:
 C S A
 
4.  Smaller upright tombstone:
 DAUGHTER
 ELIZABETH 
 HAMILTON
 
 MY DEAR MOTHER WOULD YOU PUT MY TOYS OUT HERE BY MY GRAVE.
 COME TO SEE THEM, I WAS ALL THAT YOU HAD TO PET, AND THAT WAS
 ALL THAT I DID, I HAVE LEFT THEM, ON THE TOY TABLE
 WHEN YOU GET THERE TELL THEM THAT I AM GO??ING TOO.
 
 (I couldn’t find dates, but they could have been on the opposite side of the
 headstone; I don’t think that I got back there.)
 
5.  Smaller upright tombstone
  FATHER
  MY DARLING HUSBAND HAS LEFT THIS TROUBLESOME WORLD. I HOPE
 TO LIVE WITH HIS GOD AND CHILDREN IN GLORY. O MAY WE MEET IN HEAVEN
 NEVER TO PART AGAIN
 
 W. G. HAMILTON
 (NO DATES)
 
6.  In-ground marble marker
 ALICE MATHILDE BROWN
  NOV 22, 1888
  AUG 8, 1969
 
7.  In-ground marble marker
 HENRY CLAY BROWN JR.
 1879 - 1943
 
8.  In-ground marble marker
 HENRY CLAY BROWN
 SEPT. 13, 1844
 JUNE 23, 1920
 
9.  AUGUSTUS D BROWN
  1872 - 1941
 
10.  LUCY CONEY BROWN
  DEC 29, 1889
  JAN. 30, 1977
 
11.  DUNCAN H. BROWN
  FEB. 11, 1889
 SEPT. 9, 1939
 
12.  Medium upright headstone
  MATHEWS
 
 WILLIAM A.M.D  CARRIE P.
 DEC. 22, 1862 AUG. 12, 1867
 NOV. 24, 1934 OCT. 3, 1931
 
 
13.  Tall Monument
 
  One side is inscribed at the base only with : 
  ELIZABETH
  The other side:
  ELIZABETH HAMILTON
 DAUGHTER OF
 WILLIAM G &
  MARY ANN HAMILTON
  BORN NOV. 14, 1848
 DIED JULY 3, 1886
 
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