James Family Cemetery

Location: James Road, Douglas County, Georgia
From I-20, south on Fairburn Road (Ga Hwy 92) 2.1 miles to James Road; turn right on to James Road, thence west on James Road 1/2 mile.
Cemetery is surrounded by chain link fence. Fence may not include all of cemetery, especially along the rear line.
Graves are arranged in roughly seven (7) rows parallel to James Road.

- Row 1 (next to James Road)

(1) MARY WILLIS JAMES (Wife of John James)
28 July 1810 - 16 May 1888

(2) JOHN JAMES
10 August 1808 - 16 May 1881
(Husband of Mary Willis James)
(Son of Charles James & Mary Tinie)

(3) FIELD STONE (upright)

(4) FIELD STONE (upright)

- Row 2

(5) FIELD STONE (upright)

(6) FIELD STONE (upright)

- Row 3

(7) FIELD STONE (upright)

(8) JOHN T. JAMES
(Son of John Clifford James & Harriet A. Hartage)
2 March 1873 - 1 May 1904

(9) EMMA D. JAMES
2 February 1875 - 20 October 1875

(10) WILLIAM M. JAMES
(Son of John James and Mary Willis James)
29 January 1828 - 9 October 1863
Co. C, 30th Georgia Infantry Regiment
Died of wounds sustained in the Battle of Chickamauga

(11) CONCRETE SLAB
(Child Size)
* (These slabs are just north of Sarah Kilgore - #19.
One is believed to be the grave of EUGENE KILGORE infant son of WILLIAM J. KILGORE 1861-1951.
The other is believed to be STEVE KILGORE, infant son of STEVE E. KILGORE.) (12) CONCRETE SLAB
(Child Size)

- Row 5

(13) FIELD STONE (upright)
(14) MAGGIE JAMES
(Daughter of Z.M. & S.A. James)
17 August 1875 - 18 May 1888
(Given Name: Melvina)

(15) INFANT DAUGHTER Z.M. & S.A. JAMES
Born and died June 1887

(16) ZACHARIAH M. JAMES
(Husband of Sarah A. Copeland)
8 February 1840 - 6 June 1919
(Son of John James & Mary Willis James)
Co. C, 30th Georgia Infantry Regiment

(17) SARAH A. JAMES
(Wife of Z.M. James)
5 November 1844 - 7 February 1926
(Maiden Name: Sarah A. Copeland)

(18) CONCRETE SLAB
(Child size)

(19) SARAH KILGORE
(Wife of James Harrison Kilgore)
30 March 1834 - 5 June 1907
(Daughter of John James & Mary Willis James)
(Mother of C.W. & W.J. Kilgore)

- Row 6

(20) SALLIE ABERCROMBIE
20 September 1856 - 13 February 1878
(First wife of Edward J. James, son of John James & Mary Willis James)
(Daughter of James Russell Abercrombie and Jane Dunlap)

(21) INFANT DAUGHTER of W.T. WILLIAMS
Born and died 30 March 1885
(William T. Williams was husband of Martha M. James, daughter of John James & Mary Willis James)

(22) INFANT SON OF W.T. WILLIAMS
Born and died 7 April 1891

- Row 7

(23) INFANT SON OF RUTHERFORD
5 June 1886 (Son of John W. Rutherford and Mary Ann Tinie James - daughter of John James and Mary Willis James)

NOTE: GEORGE HERSHELL JAMES (1894 - 1902) and NELLIE BELLE JAMES (1897 - 1902), children of WASHINGTON ALEX JAMES (son of John Clifford James) were originally buried here. They were later removed to nearby Mt. Carmel Cemetery (at Fairburn and Bomar) and are buried with their father.

Surveyed 1997 by Robert J. James