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Taliaferros Graveyard

Wilkes County, Georgia, USA

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  • Get directions Wilkes County, Georgia, USA
    Coordinates: 33.97140, -82.72037
  • This cemetery is marked as private and may not be accessible.

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    Located somewhere east of the dead-end of Leroy Hill Road. No public access known at this time.
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    Located somewhere east of the dead-end of Leroy Hill Road. No public access known at this time.

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Taliaferro Graveyard, Wilkes County, GA


Terry Cowan

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The Col. Benjamin Taliaferro family graveyard is located near the site of his plantation house in the Broad River Settlement.  The approximate location was described in 1854:


Col. Taliaferro's residence was on the south side, and about half a mile from Broad River, and ten

             miles from its junction with the Savannah.


Roughly plotting this location on google maps places the approximate location about 2 miles north of Friendship Cemetery on Broad Road, and about 1.8 miles North 2o degrees East from the approximate location of the Fortson-Landrum Cemetery (old Pope's Chapel.)


At least one identifiable graves survived as late as 1986:


It is through the autobiographical sketch of Mrs. Jewell that the only identifiable grave in the

            Taliaferro cemetery near the home of Benjamin Taliaferro, Sr., in Wilkes County, Georgia was

rendered significant.  The inscription "A. A. Taliaferro," marks the resting place of the grand-   

daughter of Benjamin and Martha M. Taliaferro–Ann Amelia, who died from the effects of a burn when she was three years old.


Ann Amelia, the second daughter of my parents was born August 13, 1845.  She died from the effects 


of a burn when she was three years old.


Taliaferro Graveyard, Wilkes County, GA


Terry Cowan

[email protected] 


The Col. Benjamin Taliaferro family graveyard is located near the site of his plantation house in the Broad River Settlement.  The approximate location was described in 1854:


Col. Taliaferro's residence was on the south side, and about half a mile from Broad River, and ten

             miles from its junction with the Savannah.


Roughly plotting this location on google maps places the approximate location about 2 miles north of Friendship Cemetery on Broad Road, and about 1.8 miles North 2o degrees East from the approximate location of the Fortson-Landrum Cemetery (old Pope's Chapel.)


At least one identifiable graves survived as late as 1986:


It is through the autobiographical sketch of Mrs. Jewell that the only identifiable grave in the

            Taliaferro cemetery near the home of Benjamin Taliaferro, Sr., in Wilkes County, Georgia was

rendered significant.  The inscription "A. A. Taliaferro," marks the resting place of the grand-   

daughter of Benjamin and Martha M. Taliaferro–Ann Amelia, who died from the effects of a burn when she was three years old.


Ann Amelia, the second daughter of my parents was born August 13, 1845.  She died from the effects 


of a burn when she was three years old.


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  • Added: 29 Nov 2023
  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2791497