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In 2008 my aunt, Linda Brooks (shown), took me to the cemetery where her great-grandparents are buried. This photo shows the generally run down appearance of the cemetery.

Following are photos from 2008, 2011, and 2015 showing the memorials, headstones, and footstones of the people buried here.

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Louisa is the earliest burial we have evidence of in the cemetery. She was born December 4, 1842 to Sarah Ann and John Young Williams. She married John R Crawford January 14, 1866, and had four children. The last child was born September 21, 1870. Louisa died eleven days later, October 2, 1870.

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Louisa Jane (Williams) Crawford (1842-1870)
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Willie Jane was the last child born to Louisa Jane and John R Crawford. She was born September 21, 1870 and died May 6, 1871.

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Willie Jane Crawford (1870-1871)
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Maud Crawford was the daughter of John R. Crawford and his second wife, Mary Elizabeth (Williams) Crawford. She was born April 5, 1881 and died in October 1881.

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Maud Crawford (1881-1881)
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The infant child of Mary Elizabeth (Williams) Crawford and John R. Crawford was born December 1, 1883 and died December 6, 1883.

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Infant Crawford (1883-1883)
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Bell was the daughter of Mary Elizabeth (Williams) Crawford and John R,. Crawford. She was born December 1, 1884 and died December 6, 1884.

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Bell Crawford (1884-1884)
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Sarah Ann Strickland, the daughter of Bethany Cash (1797-1852) and Samuel Strickland (1799-1854) married John Young Williams in Madison County, Georgia on July 29, 1840. Sarah Ann was born in Georgia September 19, 1821 and died in Madison County, Georgia December 9, 1890. Sarah Ann and her husband, who died two years later, share an elegant headstone that needs significant restoration.

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Sarah Ann (Strickland) Williams (1821-1890)
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Addie Lee Williams was the daughter of Eliza A. and William Brittain Williams. She was born March 11, 1889 and died September 29, 1891, about 2 1/2 years old.

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Addie Lee Williams (1889-1891)
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Lutecia E. Power was the daughter of Mary J (1836-1901) and Wiley Bennett Power (1825-1899). She married Harmon A Williams, the youngest son of Sarah Ann and John Young Williams, about 1888. She was born in 1866 and died in 1891. She shares a gravestone with her sister-in-law Minta Ann (Williams) Wright.

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Lutecia E. (Power) Williams (1866-1891)
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Sisily E E Bennett was the daughter of Martha N and Willis H Bennett of Virginia. Born in Georgia on October 25, 1852, Sisily married John T Williams in Madison County on her eighteenth birthday, October 25, 1870. Sisily and John had two children, Thomas Griffin in 1872 and Mattie Evie in 1873. Sisily died March 3, 1892.

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Sisily E E (Bennett) Williams (1852-1892)
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John Young Williams was born January 17, 1817 to Judith Adair and Elijah Williams. He married Sarah Ann Strickland in Madison County, Georgia on July 29, 1840. Sarah Ann and John Young had twelve children. John Young died December 13, 1892, two years after Sarah Ann. They share an elegant headstone that needs significant restoration.

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John Young Williams (1817-1892)
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Mary Jane "Mamye" Crawford was the daughter of Mary Elizabeth and John R Crawford. Born July 22, 1879, Mamye died one month shy of her 20th birthday on June 17, 1899.

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Mamye J Crawford (1879-1899)
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Royal Richard Coggin was the son of Viola A Crawford and Dr. William Thomas Coggin. Royal Richard was born September 16, 1899 and died November 17, 1908, just one month after his 9th birthday.

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Royal Richard Coggin (1899-1908)
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John Aquilla Crawford was the son of Mary Elizabeth Williams and John R Crawford. He was born April 15, 1878 and died September 29, 1902 at 24 years of age.

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John Aquilla Crawford (1878-1902)
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Annie Sue Williams was the daughter of Eliza Adeline Eberhart and William Brittain Williams. She was born September 6, 1904 and died September 7, 1904, just one day old.

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Annie Sue Williams 1904-1904
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William Howard Williams was the son of Sisily Bennett and John T Williams. Born August 8, 1902, they lost their two year old son September 10, 1904, just three days after his one day old cousin Annie Sue died.

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William Howard Williams (1902-1904)
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Born in August 1849 to Mary E Richards and Ebenezer Sanford Crawford, John Royal Crawford, the 59 year old patriarch of the Crawford family, died in December 1908.

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John Royal Crawford (1849-1908)

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