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Compilation of Pioneer Graves at Matthews Chapel and Cemetery, Talbotton, GA. ......... 7-3-10
John and I went to the County Court House, Chamber of Commerce and the Library in Talbotton, Georgia and finally got answers to our burning questions!! LOL
Of course with all my adventures and to add meaning to my name "Murphy" I will tell you at the end of this...why!
Now, about the graves!!...The Church was "started" in 1833 by The Methodist Association in Georgia and is the second oldest church. They do have services once a month. They are on the Georgia Circuit of Methodist preachers/pastors/ministers that give sermons in the area.
The church was not finished until 1845 (The Hall Children were buried in1841 and 1845.) The Church was named after the first Minister of the Church...William Matthews, who is buried at the Church.
So, the Hall Children were buried before the Church was finished and the year it was built. I have no dates of the other graves out there because there are no headstones. There are so many Pioneer Graves there in the woods.
My thinking is that they were buried there, to give them peace, for the families to visit quietly and far enough away not to interfere with the building of the church. Later some of the graves were put closer and out in the open, nearer the church.
This is one of the Prettier Pioneer Graves, it and one smaller grave are the only other filled in graves (besides the Hall Children's Grave) and this one has a design in the front! The only one like it. The back is squared off and the rocks are straight and in rows.
It really is quite pretty back in the woods and with all the leaves and underbrush growing up, you can tell no one has been there to visit for quite some time. It is also sad to think no one has. I think the spirits must come out at night and roam the woods! I would love to come back at night, but my husband says I'm crazy!!!
I know that Susan would go with me!!! I'm sure if I gave Lani enough wine she would go too!! (I would also drink the wine so Lani wouldn't think I was enticing her!) LOL LOL
I would park the car facing out of the cemetery and running...in case we were!!!
Now here is a reason that we may not go at all!!! I know if I tell this, even Susan won't go, but I must tell!! I'm thinking I all ready released the bugs from hell, out of that area!!!
After our two visits to the cemetery, I broke out with some kind of bites on my legs!!! I was wearing socks with my shoes and I was wearing blue jeans. I did sit on the one grave to try and take photos of the headstones (that didn't work) so I tried getting up on top to take the photos. I was on one knee and told John to push and he wasn't paying attention (or he was!!) and he pushed so hard I went head first into it!!! Thankfully it was one that was filled in!!! Then I stood on it (apologizing the entire time!!!) and took the photos!
When I got home, I changed clothes immediately!!! It was too late!!! I had all ready released the "something" from hell!!! My legs were all ready broken out!! NOT poison ivy or oak!!! Possibly chigger bites (red bug bites...same thing), but they must have been waiting for an unsuspecting soul such as me for all those years!!!!!!
Over the last week the bumps just kept multiplying!!!! As of last count, my right leg has 23 of them and one on my toe...so 24!! The left leg has19 and then there are a few other ones on tummy, arm, and a couple on my butt!!! YES, they ITCH!!!!!!!
I'm not sure if this was for disturbing the graves, for sitting on the one, or the spirits having one good laugh, just cause it was me? John did get quite a few also, but nothing like me!! He may have ended up with a dozen of them!! ROFLMBO!!! He got his just for going with me!!! I think he should have gotten more since he pushed me head first into the one grave!! Anyway, I look like I have Chicken Pox right now!!!
These really are worth the VIEW IN LARGE!!!
Compilation of Pioneer Graves at Matthews Chapel and Cemetery, Talbotton, GA. ......... 7-3-10
John and I went to the County Court House, Chamber of Commerce and the Library in Talbotton, Georgia and finally got answers to our burning questions!! LOL
Of course with all my adventures and to add meaning to my name "Murphy" I will tell you at the end of this...why!
Now, about the graves!!...The Church was "started" in 1833 by The Methodist Association in Georgia and is the second oldest church. They do have services once a month. They are on the Georgia Circuit of Methodist preachers/pastors/ministers that give sermons in the area.
The church was not finished until 1845 (The Hall Children were buried in1841 and 1845.) The Church was named after the first Minister of the Church...William Matthews, who is buried at the Church.
So, the Hall Children were buried before the Church was finished and the year it was built. I have no dates of the other graves out there because there are no headstones. There are so many Pioneer Graves there in the woods.
My thinking is that they were buried there, to give them peace, for the families to visit quietly and far enough away not to interfere with the building of the church. Later some of the graves were put closer and out in the open, nearer the church.
This is one of the Prettier Pioneer Graves, it and one smaller grave are the only other filled in graves (besides the Hall Children's Grave) and this one has a design in the front! The only one like it. The back is squared off and the rocks are straight and in rows.
It really is quite pretty back in the woods and with all the leaves and underbrush growing up, you can tell no one has been there to visit for quite some time. It is also sad to think no one has. I think the spirits must come out at night and roam the woods! I would love to come back at night, but my husband says I'm crazy!!!
I know that Susan would go with me!!! I'm sure if I gave Lani enough wine she would go too!! (I would also drink the wine so Lani wouldn't think I was enticing her!) LOL LOL
I would park the car facing out of the cemetery and running...in case we were!!!
Now here is a reason that we may not go at all!!! I know if I tell this, even Susan won't go, but I must tell!! I'm thinking I all ready released the bugs from hell, out of that area!!!
After our two visits to the cemetery, I broke out with some kind of bites on my legs!!! I was wearing socks with my shoes and I was wearing blue jeans. I did sit on the one grave to try and take photos of the headstones (that didn't work) so I tried getting up on top to take the photos. I was on one knee and told John to push and he wasn't paying attention (or he was!!) and he pushed so hard I went head first into it!!! Thankfully it was one that was filled in!!! Then I stood on it (apologizing the entire time!!!) and took the photos!
When I got home, I changed clothes immediately!!! It was too late!!! I had all ready released the "something" from hell!!! My legs were all ready broken out!! NOT poison ivy or oak!!! Possibly chigger bites (red bug bites...same thing), but they must have been waiting for an unsuspecting soul such as me for all those years!!!!!!
Over the last week the bumps just kept multiplying!!!! As of last count, my right leg has 23 of them and one on my toe...so 24!! The left leg has19 and then there are a few other ones on tummy, arm, and a couple on my butt!!! YES, they ITCH!!!!!!!
I'm not sure if this was for disturbing the graves, for sitting on the one, or the spirits having one good laugh, just cause it was me? John did get quite a few also, but nothing like me!! He may have ended up with a dozen of them!! ROFLMBO!!! He got his just for going with me!!! I think he should have gotten more since he pushed me head first into the one grave!! Anyway, I look like I have Chicken Pox right now!!!
These really are worth the VIEW IN LARGE!!!