Driskell Cemetery
By Larry Childs
The Driskell
Cemetery was in Land Lot 108 in the Fifth District of Monroe County and was included
in land formerly owned by John W. G. Greer, Jr., James Monroe Driskell, Sr. and
Thomas Jefferson Driskell.
It was a small four-grave cemetery that
was begun on the farm of James Monroe Driskell, Sr. when his teenage daughter,
Mary Elizabeth Driskell, died about 1860. His wife, Elizabeth, died about 1892 and
he died in 1896. The other grave is that of his son, James Monroe Driskell, Jr.,
who died in 1918.
Three of the graves were marked with slabs but no names
and the other one by a depression in the ground, according to the plat made by
Georgia Power Company.
Driskell, Mary Elizabeth 1845 - 1860 ?
(d/o James Monroe and Elizabeth Driskell)
Driskell, Elizabeth 1820
- ca 1892 (wife of James Monroe Driskell)
Driskell, James Monroe
1819 - ca 1896
Driskell, James Monroe, Jr. 1849? - 1918
1860 United States Federal Census > Georgia > Monroe >
Dardens Jul 21, 1860
Driskell, James M. 41 [1819] farmer $700
Elizabeth
40 f [1820]
Mary 15 [1845] died later that year ?
Wm C. 13 [1847]
James M. 11 [1849]
B.M.
9 male [1851]
T.J. 3 [1857] (Thomas Jefferson)
Danile
2 [1858]
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