One hot, muggy, summer day in south Georgia, Early and Clay Counties, to be exact, I had an encounter with an ancestor.
We were in two cars. My dad was driving behind me as we headed out of Blakely on our way to Americus. We had spent the morning in Blakely, Early County, GA, looking for signs of John G. HOWELL, Anyone named KINCHEN or WYLLY and John DAVIS and his wife Sarah "Sally" BLUE DAVIS. We had some good finds and we headed to Sumter County to look some more.
It began to rain as we drove north. As we drove through the small community of Bluffton, I suddenly pulled off the road at an abandoned store. My dad thought I was having car trouble and pulled up beside me. I told him that I needed to turn left down a country road that I could see. He questioned me, but finally agreed to follow. About 1/2 mile off the highway we saw a cemetery in the middle of a cow pasture. The cows were all over the graves, but moved as we pulled in. There in the middle of nowhere, was the hand hewn rock that covered and fenced the graves of my 3great grandparents: Sarah "Sally" BLUE DAVIS and John DAVIS who came from Sampson Co and Cumberland Co., NC about 1832 in an ox wagon to build a mill and quarry there. That cemetery was not censused until 3 years later. Thank you Sally and John for steering me in the right direction!
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