Our car parked in front of the
Library in Warrenton, a town of 1500 or so
We stopped briefly in Jones County
to do a little genealogy but didn't find much
This is a recreation of the Andersonville
Confederate Prison showing the living conditions of the prisoners.
The fence between the tents and the stockage wall was the "Deadline".
If a man crossed it he was immediately shot.
The men in the prison did not have
a clean source of water and one day after a rather heavy rainstorm a Spring
came up through the ground. There is a memorial there now.
Glorene is making a wish in the fountian.
Almost 16000 men died over a period
of little more than a year at Andersonville due to poor living conditions
and are burried nearby in what is now a National Cemetery. So many
men died every day that they were buried in groups in ditches. Hence
the closely spaced headstones (originally wood)
Many monuments dot the cemetery
which were put up by the various States who had men buried there.
The cemetery was quite moving
This is the Church in Friendship
GA, where Glorene's Grandparents below are buried
Glorene and her grandparents graves.
From left: Stephen Baker (GGG Grandfather), Robert Sheffield (GGGG
Grandfather), and an unmarked grave. Probably Stephen's wife Nancy
Sheffield Baker who we know should be buried in Sumter County too.
Stephen's grave was pretty difficult
to read as you can see
Just a short distance down the
road was the Concord Methodist Cemetery wher Glorene's GGG Grandparents
Larkin Glover and his wife Sarah are buried. Larkin was actually a Baptist,
but since he donated the land to the Methodist Church he was buried there.
As you can see from above, the
day was spent doing genealogy. It is very muggy here with temperatures
in the mid 90's. We are not sure what tomorrow holds so stay tuned.
This is unusual for me as I usually have to have everything planned in
detail. I don't have a clue what we are doing or where we are going
tomorrow or for that matter for the next 10 days.
RETURN
TO INDEX