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Subject: [GAFORSYT] STRICKLAND (a/k/a Little Terry) CEMETERY in Shakerag, GA
Date: 28 Sep 2002 05:51:13 -0600

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The following is from Vol 31, No 2 of the Georgia Genealogical Society Quarterly, Page 101-104, and is posted here with the gracious permission of Ted Brooke. The format has been changed slightly for this message board, but the text is the same.

Please contact me if you are interested in the Littles that appear at the end of this listing. Regards, Leo

STRICKLAND (aka Little Terry) CEMETERY (Shakerag, Forsyth County, Georgia, 1994)

Contributed by Ted 0. Brooke

The Cemetery is located in extreme southeastern Forsyth County. Directions: From intersection of McGinnis Ferry Road and Kemp Road, go north on Kemp road about 200 yards to cemetery site on right (east) side of road. This cemetery is about one acre, mostly fenced, in the edge of a pasture. There is evidence of several dozen additional unmarked graves and, as of this date, there are some 18 small white "Flags" sticking randomly in the ground throughout this cemetery, whose meaning is unknown to me. Surveyed 20 February 1994 by Ted 0. Brooke.

Note: This cemetery has been surveyed and published three times, with varying degrees of accuracy and completeness. It is identified as "Shakerag" (called "Little" or "Terry') in Cemeteries of Forsyth County Georgia, page [34 135; as "Strickland Cemetery" in Cemetery Records, Atlanta and Vicinity volume 4 pages 263 264 (recorded 1941); as two cemeteries, "Strickland Family Cemetery" and Unknown", in the Georgia Genealogist, County Records Forsyth County Cemeteries, pages 86 87, which was a very incomplete listing and where it is noted "could it be a part of the Shakerag Church"?

Several early death certificates identify this as the Terry family cemetery and it is known to current residents as the Strickland family cemetery. The earliest burials here were in the Little, Terry and Strickland families.

Name / Birth date / Death date / Misc. information on markers

Charles Emerson / 29 Dec 1916 / 12 Jan 1992 / Son of John & Lula Emerson; (pink triangular marker)

Emma W. Emerson / 15 Mar 1879 / 30 Jun 1969

Lula Emerson / 17 Mar 1865 / 20 Dec 1963 / Mother

Grady Brown / 13 Dec 1917 / 16 Jul 1991

Louella Strickland Brown / 16 Dec 1918 / No date

Nora C. Rogers / 25 Oct 1920 / 20 Nov 1955 / Daughter (Footmarker: Nora G, wife of Luzell Rogers)

Flonnie Mae Strickland / 17 Mar 1897 / 29 Oct 1990 / Mother

Allison Strickland / 25 Dec 1896 / 7 Sep 1970 / Father

Ruby L. Hardman / 1920 / 1967

Corine Rogers / 27 Mar 1920 / 14 Mar 1981

Josie Parks / A very recent burial with no marker; name taken from Bill Head Funeral Home card lying on ground.

Roosevelt Wells / 1 Apr 1923 / 30 Jun 1967 / GA PFC US Marine Corps World

Edgar L. Williams / 1 Aug 1913 / 16 Oct 1945 / Marker broken off and lying on ground

Mary Williams / 4 Jul 1865 / 25 Apr 1922

Mary Parks / Age about 40 yrs / No Dates

Mrs. Catherine Lake / 25 Sep 1957 / Murdaugh (marker company)

Master Charles Robert Richardson / 8 Jun 1950 / Murdaugh (marker company)

Mrs. Macoma Osley / 28 Jul 1953

William Stillman / 12 Nov 1900 / 25 Dec 1900

Missouri Hutchin / 1 Jan 1857 / 1 Jan 1862

Eliza Hutchins / 21 Sep 1882

Mrs. Carrie Strickland / 12 Aug 1951 / 78 (years old?)

Willie Strickland / 24 Dec 1871 / 3 Aug 1939 / Age 68 years (heart shaped maker)

Jay L. Strickland / 7 Sep 1921 / 1 Jan 1945 / Georgia Pvt 390 Engr GS Regt World War II

Etlee Borders / 11 Nov 1920 / 12 Jul 1977

Mrs. Lillie B. Hardeman / 10 Feb 1966 / (No other date. Murdaugh marker company)

David L. Borders / 1990 / 1991 / Bill Head Duluth Chapel metal funeral home marker

Francis Wells wife of Jordan / 15 Mar 1889

Hattie Wells wife of Jordan / 12 Dec 1873 / 23 Apr 1916

Jordan Wells / 20 Oct 1847 / 19 May 1922

Vergil H. Wells / 15 Jul 1887 / 14 Jan 1919

Charlie Burrus / 4 Jan 1919 / Age 39 years

Paul Burse / 1 Aug 1919 / 18 Dec 1963

Claud Burse / 23 Nov 1907 / 4 Jul 1975 / Father

Mr. L.M. ("Hog") Buice / 25 Oct 1964 / No other date "Hale Brooks" (marker company?)

Mrs. Georgia Burse / (Stone is sunken and stuck can not raise to check dates) "Murdaugh" marker company

Lee Ben Strickland / 18 Nov 1901 / 28 Jul 1969

Ada Riley Strickland / 4 Jan 1886 / 29 Apr 1952

Lee Strickland / 19 Feb 1882 / 7 Jan 1944 / "Daddy"

Mary Harrison / 6 Feb 1890 / 10 Nov 1919 / Age 30 years

Laura Bell Steele / 6 Nov 1961

Mattie B Steele / 13 May 1975

Frank Steele, Sr / 28 Mar 1964

Frank Steele, Jr / 9 Jul 1970 / Tom M. Wiges metal funeral home marker indicates "1937-1970"

"Burs" / Name [only] shown on Nash Metal funeral home marker

(The following six inscriptions are on markers inside an iron fence)

Annie Kemp Christopher / 21 Oct 1898 / 9 Apr 1929

Martha Watson Kemp / 14 May 1860 / 17 Nov 1922 / Square marker, inscriptions on opposite sides

J. L. Kemp / 20 Aug 1858 / 16 Dec 1912

R. A. Watson / 8 Jan 1828 / 6 Apr 1910 / Age 82 yrs, 2 mos & 28 dys

Odesser / 9 Aug 1874 / 7 Sep 1875 / Daug of WA. & EN. Watson

Virginia Newman / 1828 / 23 Nov 1911 / Cemetery Records shows year of birth as 1822, although it has been rechecked and "1828" is correct.

Annie Lin Ford / 18 May 1923 / 26 May 1923

John Wade Wilbanks / 20 Jan 1920 / 28 Mar 1920

Newport Strickland / 24 Oct 1849 / 22 Feb 1912

Walker Strickland / 11 Jul 1857 / 14 Jun 1932

Amanda Strickland / 18 Feb 1870 / 23 Jan 1948

Joel Strickland / 18 Sep 1817 / 2 Aug 1889 / Age 71 yrs, 10 mos, 14 dys

Rev Stephen Terry / Lot surrounded by stone wall about 12 feet square and 2 feet high. No markers or dates noted. Name on iron gate.

Martha C. wife of G. W. Webb / 10 Jul 1847 / 2 Jun 1885 / Age 37 yrs, 10 mos, & 22 dys

John G. Terry / 30 Dec 1812 / 15 Oct 1880

Elizabeth Terry / 3 Aug 1846 / 27 Nov 1851 / Dau of M. & M. Terry

The above small marker was recorded in Cemetery Records in 1941 and it could not be located by me in 1994; 1 suspect it has fallen over and is concealed in the dense ground cover as were the markers of Parker Harris & Alonzo P. Little

John Clinton Tuggle / 6 May 1890 / 28 Sep 1890 / son of IM. & ME. Tuggle footmarker: "J.C.T."

Alice V. Little / 1850 / 1929 / Mother

G.W. Little / 1849 / 1921 / Father

Dr. Edwin D. Little / 26 Sep 1851 / 28 May 1910

C.N. Little / 9 Jan 1840 / 18 Aug 1904

Note: Cemetery Records ... has first initial as "G" and year of birth as "1848" although it has been rechecked and initial "C" and year of birth "1840" is correct.

Margaret Lee Little / 21 Jul 1864 / 10 Mar 1895 / Marker verse by husband E.D.L.

Mary N. Goodwin / 28 Oct 1837 / 19 Dec 1898

Parker Harris / 11 Jan 1831 / 26 May 1865 / Footmarker: "P.H." Marker broken in two pieces & broken off at base; had to be dug up.

Thomas Little / 18 Oct 1816 / 18 Jan 1891

Elizabeth Little / 10 Aug 1819 / 27 Jul 1893 / Wife of Thomas Little

Alonzo P. Little / 15 Apr 1859 / 5 Feb 1885 / Footmarker: "A.P.L." Marker broken in three pieces by fallen tree; had to be dug up.

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