Terrell-Jones Cemetery

Submitted by: Anne Barrett Chamlee (Mrs. Tilmon P. Chamlee)

 

Located off of Highway 78; turn at Brown Road to Washington-Wilkes County Animal Shelter; follow road to the shelter then turn left into driveway/road (unpaved); cemetery on left – surrounded by dry laid rock wall.

At this time do not have GPS.  Recorded by Tilmon and Anne Barrett Chamlee of Milledgeville, Georgia, Sunday, January 31, 2010:

 

In memory of

MISS ELIZABETH WADDEY

born August 18, 1791

and departed this life

March 12^th, 1847

 

Sacred

to the memory of

WILLIAM JONES

born in Northumberland County, VA

February 2__th, 1770

died May 23, 1830 (1850?)

Let me die the death of the Righteous

and let my last end be like his

 

 

Sacred

to the memory of

JUDITH JONES

The wife of

CHARLES JONES

of Northumberland County, VA

who departed _____ _____

in 1810 (?)

aged about 80 years

_____more than twenty years a

member of the M.E. Church

_____the profession by ______ _____

_____ Godly conversion and _____in the triumph of faith

______ the dead who die in the Lord

 

In memory of

Mrs. Luanna Ruddle

born October 13^th (18^th?) 1776

and departed this life

May 12, 1837

 

In memory of

Mrs. Penelope Terrell

who was born the 9^th

day of November, 1776

and departed this life

August, 1827

 

Other graves now destroyed are evident (field stones, granite pieces, “sinks”).

 

Penelope Terrell was the wife of Peter Buford Terrell (1784 VA – 1821 GA),

ancestors of Anne Barrett Chamlee thru her mother, Juanita Terrell Barrett (1911-2002).

Penelope’s mother was Judith (Waddey) Jones.