Son of John & Elizabeth (Blitch) Hurst
Cemetery:
Walter E Scott, Ed. S.
It is near Hiltonia which is in Screven County between Sardis and Sylvania. To my knowledge, there are no photos of it, and I don't believe that it was ever transcribed either. Back around 1996 or so, a teenaged deerhunter was talking about seeing the grave of Charles B. Hurst (he was the first minister and namesake of Hurst Baptist Church) near his deer stand. Anyway, that is how it was finally rediscovered after all of these years. Besides Charles B. Hurst and his wife, Dorothy Ann Lambert, being buried there, Dorothy's parents are there as well. It seems like there are only two or three other marked graves, though I'd imagine that over fifty people were originally interred there.
Going towards Hiltonia on the Perkins-Hiltonia Highway, turn left onto an old two-rut road just up the hill from Six Bridges Hunting Club (this used to be Trinity Church). Follow this road for about 1/4 of a mile and the cemetery (now chain-linked fence is around it) will be on the left, and the old Skinner House where George Washington breakfasted in 1791 is on the right. It's a shame that they have let this historically important structure simply fall down.
The plantation near Hiltonia (between there and Girard which is a few miles due east of Sardis) would have been Millhaven. North of Millhaven towards Girard is where the Hurst family lived (they'd moved from upper Effingham and Bryan County around Blitchton about 1810), though my g-g-g-grandfather's younger brother, Charles B. Hurst, a Baptist Minister, married Dorothy Ann Lambert, daughter of Sarah Streigles and William Lambert, and they lived west of what is now Hurst Church. North and west of Millhaven, where Ellison's Bridge Road runs into Murray Hill Road, is where the Ellisons have lived for about 200 years now. Ellison's Bridge Road runs all the way back into Sardis from the point where it runs into Murray Hill Rd. Murray Hill Rd deadends into the Millhaven Highway just north of Jerusalem Church, which is one of the oldest churches in that area. The Streigles family are a mixture of the French Huguenots and Austrian Salzburgers who established New Goettingen near Stony Bluff, and the Lambert (Lambrecht) family were Salzburgers as well.
From Diana B (#47030327)
I am connecting relatives for my husband's family and would like for the following to be added to this memorial.
Charles Blitch HURST (John J.) was born 25 Aug 1824 in Effingham Co., GA. He died 1866/1870 in GA.
Charles married Dora Ann UNKNOWN. Dora was born calculated 1827 in GA.
They had the following children:
Thomas HURST was born 1842 in Burke Co., GA
Sarah E. HURST was born 1849 in Burke Co., GA
Sarah married C.J. GODBEE on 25 Dec 1870 in Burke Co., GA
Emma V. HURST was born 1854/1855 in Burke Co., GA.
Rosana R. HURST "Rosa" was born 1857/1858 in Burke Co., GA
Tulula HURST was born 1860/1861 in GA
Julia HURST was born 1862/1863 in GA
Annie HURST was born 1866/1867 in GA
Thanks to FAG Volunteer Diana B (#47030327):
He was founder of Hurst Church
Cemetery:
Walter E Scott, Ed. S.
It is near Hiltonia which is in Screven County between Sardis and Sylvania. To my knowledge, there are no photos of it, and I don't believe that it was ever transcribed either. Back around 1996 or so, a teenaged deerhunter was talking about seeing the grave of Charles B. Hurst (he was the first minister and namesake of Hurst Baptist Church) near his deer stand. Anyway, that is how it was finally rediscovered after all of these years. Besides Charles B. Hurst and his wife, Dorothy Ann Lambert, being buried there, Dorothy's parents are there as well. It seems like there are only two or three other marked graves, though I'd imagine that over fifty people were originally interred there.
Going towards Hiltonia on the Perkins-Hiltonia Highway, turn left onto an old two-rut road just up the hill from Six Bridges Hunting Club (this used to be Trinity Church). Follow this road for about 1/4 of a mile and the cemetery (now chain-linked fence is around it) will be on the left, and the old Skinner House where George Washington breakfasted in 1791 is on the right. It's a shame that they have let this historically important structure simply fall down.
The plantation near Hiltonia (between there and Girard which is a few miles due east of Sardis) would have been Millhaven. North of Millhaven towards Girard is where the Hurst family lived (they'd moved from upper Effingham and Bryan County around Blitchton about 1810), though my g-g-g-grandfather's younger brother, Charles B. Hurst, a Baptist Minister, married Dorothy Ann Lambert, daughter of Sarah Streigles and William Lambert, and they lived west of what is now Hurst Church. North and west of Millhaven, where Ellison's Bridge Road runs into Murray Hill Road, is where the Ellisons have lived for about 200 years now. Ellison's Bridge Road runs all the way back into Sardis from the point where it runs into Murray Hill Rd. Murray Hill Rd deadends into the Millhaven Highway just north of Jerusalem Church, which is one of the oldest churches in that area. The Streigles family are a mixture of the French Huguenots and Austrian Salzburgers who established New Goettingen near Stony Bluff, and the Lambert (Lambrecht) family were Salzburgers as well.
From Diana B (#47030327)
I am connecting relatives for my husband's family and would like for the following to be added to this memorial.
Charles Blitch HURST (John J.) was born 25 Aug 1824 in Effingham Co., GA. He died 1866/1870 in GA.
Charles married Dora Ann UNKNOWN. Dora was born calculated 1827 in GA.
They had the following children:
Thomas HURST was born 1842 in Burke Co., GA
Sarah E. HURST was born 1849 in Burke Co., GA
Sarah married C.J. GODBEE on 25 Dec 1870 in Burke Co., GA
Emma V. HURST was born 1854/1855 in Burke Co., GA.
Rosana R. HURST "Rosa" was born 1857/1858 in Burke Co., GA
Tulula HURST was born 1860/1861 in GA
Julia HURST was born 1862/1863 in GA
Annie HURST was born 1866/1867 in GA
Thanks to FAG Volunteer Diana B (#47030327):
He was founder of Hurst Church
Son of John & Elizabeth (Blitch) Hurst
Cemetery:
Walter E Scott, Ed. S.
It is near Hiltonia which is in Screven County between Sardis and Sylvania. To my knowledge, there are no photos of it, and I don't believe that it was ever transcribed either. Back around 1996 or so, a teenaged deerhunter was talking about seeing the grave of Charles B. Hurst (he was the first minister and namesake of Hurst Baptist Church) near his deer stand. Anyway, that is how it was finally rediscovered after all of these years. Besides Charles B. Hurst and his wife, Dorothy Ann Lambert, being buried there, Dorothy's parents are there as well. It seems like there are only two or three other marked graves, though I'd imagine that over fifty people were originally interred there.
Going towards Hiltonia on the Perkins-Hiltonia Highway, turn left onto an old two-rut road just up the hill from Six Bridges Hunting Club (this used to be Trinity Church). Follow this road for about 1/4 of a mile and the cemetery (now chain-linked fence is around it) will be on the left, and the old Skinner House where George Washington breakfasted in 1791 is on the right. It's a shame that they have let this historically important structure simply fall down.
The plantation near Hiltonia (between there and Girard which is a few miles due east of Sardis) would have been Millhaven. North of Millhaven towards Girard is where the Hurst family lived (they'd moved from upper Effingham and Bryan County around Blitchton about 1810), though my g-g-g-grandfather's younger brother, Charles B. Hurst, a Baptist Minister, married Dorothy Ann Lambert, daughter of Sarah Streigles and William Lambert, and they lived west of what is now Hurst Church. North and west of Millhaven, where Ellison's Bridge Road runs into Murray Hill Road, is where the Ellisons have lived for about 200 years now. Ellison's Bridge Road runs all the way back into Sardis from the point where it runs into Murray Hill Rd. Murray Hill Rd deadends into the Millhaven Highway just north of Jerusalem Church, which is one of the oldest churches in that area. The Streigles family are a mixture of the French Huguenots and Austrian Salzburgers who established New Goettingen near Stony Bluff, and the Lambert (Lambrecht) family were Salzburgers as well.
From Diana B (#47030327)
I am connecting relatives for my husband's family and would like for the following to be added to this memorial.
Charles Blitch HURST (John J.) was born 25 Aug 1824 in Effingham Co., GA. He died 1866/1870 in GA.
Charles married Dora Ann UNKNOWN. Dora was born calculated 1827 in GA.
They had the following children:
Thomas HURST was born 1842 in Burke Co., GA
Sarah E. HURST was born 1849 in Burke Co., GA
Sarah married C.J. GODBEE on 25 Dec 1870 in Burke Co., GA
Emma V. HURST was born 1854/1855 in Burke Co., GA.
Rosana R. HURST "Rosa" was born 1857/1858 in Burke Co., GA
Tulula HURST was born 1860/1861 in GA
Julia HURST was born 1862/1863 in GA
Annie HURST was born 1866/1867 in GA
Thanks to FAG Volunteer Diana B (#47030327):
He was founder of Hurst Church
Cemetery:
Walter E Scott, Ed. S.
It is near Hiltonia which is in Screven County between Sardis and Sylvania. To my knowledge, there are no photos of it, and I don't believe that it was ever transcribed either. Back around 1996 or so, a teenaged deerhunter was talking about seeing the grave of Charles B. Hurst (he was the first minister and namesake of Hurst Baptist Church) near his deer stand. Anyway, that is how it was finally rediscovered after all of these years. Besides Charles B. Hurst and his wife, Dorothy Ann Lambert, being buried there, Dorothy's parents are there as well. It seems like there are only two or three other marked graves, though I'd imagine that over fifty people were originally interred there.
Going towards Hiltonia on the Perkins-Hiltonia Highway, turn left onto an old two-rut road just up the hill from Six Bridges Hunting Club (this used to be Trinity Church). Follow this road for about 1/4 of a mile and the cemetery (now chain-linked fence is around it) will be on the left, and the old Skinner House where George Washington breakfasted in 1791 is on the right. It's a shame that they have let this historically important structure simply fall down.
The plantation near Hiltonia (between there and Girard which is a few miles due east of Sardis) would have been Millhaven. North of Millhaven towards Girard is where the Hurst family lived (they'd moved from upper Effingham and Bryan County around Blitchton about 1810), though my g-g-g-grandfather's younger brother, Charles B. Hurst, a Baptist Minister, married Dorothy Ann Lambert, daughter of Sarah Streigles and William Lambert, and they lived west of what is now Hurst Church. North and west of Millhaven, where Ellison's Bridge Road runs into Murray Hill Road, is where the Ellisons have lived for about 200 years now. Ellison's Bridge Road runs all the way back into Sardis from the point where it runs into Murray Hill Rd. Murray Hill Rd deadends into the Millhaven Highway just north of Jerusalem Church, which is one of the oldest churches in that area. The Streigles family are a mixture of the French Huguenots and Austrian Salzburgers who established New Goettingen near Stony Bluff, and the Lambert (Lambrecht) family were Salzburgers as well.
From Diana B (#47030327)
I am connecting relatives for my husband's family and would like for the following to be added to this memorial.
Charles Blitch HURST (John J.) was born 25 Aug 1824 in Effingham Co., GA. He died 1866/1870 in GA.
Charles married Dora Ann UNKNOWN. Dora was born calculated 1827 in GA.
They had the following children:
Thomas HURST was born 1842 in Burke Co., GA
Sarah E. HURST was born 1849 in Burke Co., GA
Sarah married C.J. GODBEE on 25 Dec 1870 in Burke Co., GA
Emma V. HURST was born 1854/1855 in Burke Co., GA.
Rosana R. HURST "Rosa" was born 1857/1858 in Burke Co., GA
Tulula HURST was born 1860/1861 in GA
Julia HURST was born 1862/1863 in GA
Annie HURST was born 1866/1867 in GA
Thanks to FAG Volunteer Diana B (#47030327):
He was founder of Hurst Church
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