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Camp Cemetery is located on the Honeygal hunting club
property in northwest Glynn County. From exit 36 on Interstate 95, travel
northwest on Hwy. 341 going towards Jesup. About 5.3 miles turn right onto
Old Jesup Road. Travel 1.5 miles north on Old Jesup Road and turn right
(northeast) onto Pennick Road. Travel 3.8 miles and turn right (east) onto
Honeygal Road. About 1.7 miles down, the road will turn to dirt.
From the dirt, count to the second hunting club gate on your left, the cemetery
is through this gate. In all you will travel 2.5 miles down Honeygal Road
to this second gate.
Once inside of the gate, there will be a "road" to your
right. Many decades ago this was a road traveling through a neighborhood.
Now it is a grass covered path, that you can almost drive a car down. I
did not measure the distance down this road, as we couldn't drive completely
down it in a full size truck. Eventually it sort of dead ends, and the
cemetery will be on your right. Be careful walking down at the end of this
road, because it appears that a grave may be in the middle of it. I
noticed an indentation the size of a casket as I was leaving the cemetery.
Pictured
to the right are the only two markers that I found,
standing up that is. The very first picture above is of a fenced off grave
plot. There are many, many indentations that are quite possibly graves.
Unfortunately these two markers do not have anything written on them.
I did not spend too much time out here, as it was getting
ready to storm, and the ticks were ferocious! During the winter, I may go
back and look around a little more. According to a few "old-timers" in the
area, there is also a white cemetery across the road from this one. It may
be called Honeygal, but I did not find any trace of it, of course I didn't look
too hard, as the area across from this cemetery is thick with vines and those
man eating ticks.
Some of the surnames of people buried here are
LeCount, Johnson,
Maxwell, Lane, and
Alexander. Deaconess Anna E.B. Alexander from the Good Shepherd
Episcopal Church on Pennick road, is buried out here too. She was a the
founder of the church in 1894 and the founder of Parochial School in 1907.
She was born in the 1800s and died in 1947. A monument is erected at the
Good Shepherd Church in her honor listing these accomplishments.
Cemetery visited by Amy Hedrick, summer of
2003.
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