Freedman Cemetery Glynn Co., Georgia

Freedman
African-American

This cemetery is located at the very end of Petersville Road. Take Hwy. 17 North from Brunswick and turn left onto Hwy. 99. Petersville Road is the first road on your left. Drive to the end of the road and park. Climb over the dirt hill directly in front of you and walk about 125 yards. The cemetery will be on your right with a sign in a fenced off area. Open the gate and walk in about 100 feet.

There are many unmarked graves in this cemetery. When the graves started to cave in, the family came out and piled dirt on top of all of them (marked and unmarked). It gives the cemetery an eerie quality, it looks as though either the graves are freshly dug or the coffins are sitting above ground!

According to family history provided by the Sullivan Family, this cemetery was once located on the Glynnco [or FLETC] property, and was moved to it's current location. Many of the graves are still at FLETC.

Cemetery surveyed by Amy Hedrick in January 2003.

Click on names to see photos. Not all graves were photographed.

MAP

1^st Row

#1 -- #14 unmarked mounds

2^nd Row

#15 & #16 unmarked mounds

3^rd Row

#17
Wooden Marker

#18
DOLLIE WALBURG
BORN OCT. 12, 1849
DIED NOV. 10, 1903
Gone but not forgotten

#19
SANCHO WALBURG
BORN 1820
DIED MAY 10, 1903

#20
EDWARD WHITE
BORN DEC. 27 -82
DIED DEC. 27, 1912
Gone but not forgotten

4^th Row

#21, #22, #23
Unmarked mounds

#24
JULIOUS
ROGERS
AUG. 6, 1906
MAR. 23,
1959

5^th Row

#25

Mound marked with piece of granite.

6^th Row

See notes below

#26 & #27
Mounds marked with metal funeral home signs.

#28
PHYLLIS
SULLIVAN
APR. 12 - FEB. 15
1878 1933
GONE BUT NOT
FORGOTTEN

#29
REV. ALBERT D. SULLIVAN
BORN DEC. 25, 1865
DIED JUNE 16, 1924
Ocean View Temple 789
Brunswick, Ga.
(symbol on stone)

#30
LAURA SULLIVAN
HIGHTOWER
BORN
MAR. 1^st 1889
DIED
NOV. 22, 1911

#31
HENRY
POLITE
MAY 3, 1903
DEC. 21, 1942
In Memory

#32
Mound marked with metal fhm.

7^th Row

#33
Mound marked w/concrete slab

8^th Row

#34
A. JOSEPHUS SULLIVAN
BORN JAN. 16, ‘97
DIED JULY 17, 1900

#35
Mound marked with granite stone & flower pot.

#36
Mound, may not be a grave.

9^th Row

#37
SAM S. PITTMAN
DIED
APR. 18, 1918
AGE 30 YRS.

#38
IN Memory
of Anna R. Wright
Departed May 1, 1923
Gone To Rest
Age 51

#39
MAJOR MAGWOOD
BORN MAR. 4,
1832 DIED JUN. 5, 1910
REG 128 CO. A

#40
Unmarked mound, may not be a grave.

10^th Row

#41
SON
JAMES A.
BLUE
OCT. 31, 1916
DEC. 29, 1936

#42
Mound marked with granite stone.

11^th Row

#43
IRENE
HOWELL
JAN. 3, 1900
JULY 19, 1941
In God’s care.

#44
Mound marked with granite stone.

Notes & Updates

**Row 6: According to Ephraim Sullivan and his mother Chloe Sullivan [both of Brunswick], there are a few more gravesites, that I did not find, and there are some folks possibly buried in the unmarked graves in row 6 that are their Sullivan kin, as follows:

In row 6 there are two unmarked graves, then Albert and his wife Phyllis Sullivan and next to them is Laura Sullivan Hightower. Laura Sullivan was married to Herbert Hightower who possibly died 9 October 1930.

Ruth (Gamble) Sullivan died around 1941 according to Ms. C. Sullivan. I did find a death record for a Ruth G. Sullivan in Chatham County, stating she died 27 February 1965, is this her?

There were also two infants buried in this area, one being Ms. Sullivan's child who died on 11 May 1944.

According to the 1930 Glynn County census, Albert & Phyllis Sullivan were the parents of the following children: Ben, Ephraim, James, Samuel, and Franklin. In 1920 there were two more children, a daughter Elizabeth and another son, whose name is hard to read, Scranin?.

In 1910 there were children Benjamin, Laura?, Ephraim, Ezekial?, and Elizabeth.

1900 children were Laura, Albert, Susan, Joseph, Ephraim.

If the census can be believed, Phyllis was only 16 years old when she and Albert married in 1888. If you take the date from her tombstone, she was married at age 10. No marriage record has been found for them in Glynn County. From census records alone, we could assume that there are a few more Sullivans buried here that we don't know about.

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