Kennedy-Brittain Cemetery

Location: This family cemetery is in Winston, two miles north of Bankhead Highway on Mann Road. It is on the right side of the road and has an iron gate flanked by brick columns. The cemetery is rectangular in shape with five rows of graves and a total of 30-35 graves. There is a dirt roadbed that encircles it, and there are additional fieldstone marked graves that lie in the woods beyond that roadbed.

Row 1 (westernmost row):

Cecil Brittain Culpepper
11 Jun 1903 - 30 Jul 1990

Frank Kennedy Hamby
22 Nov 1918 - 10 May 1981
Killed Eilat, Israel

Bernard H. Brittain
19 Dec 1894 - 20 May 1953
GA Pvt. 12th Inf, 9th Div, WWI

Alfred Tyre Brittain
15 Oct 1865 - 20 Nov 1942

Mary F. Kennedy
26 Jan 1873 - 27 Jan 1953

John Ralph Brittain
1920 -1993

Aulton K. Brittain
27 Feb 1893 - 6 Nov 1918 (war casualty)
GA Pvt. 307th Inf, 77th Div, WWI

J.J. Kennedy
27 Sep 1835 - 25 Apr 1905
Co. F, Cobb's Legion, CSA

H.A. (Hester Ann) Kennedy (nee Dorris)
w/o J.J. Kennedy
25 Nov 1845 - 2 Jul 1895

Next are five fieldstone-marked graves, two of which are apparently children. One of these is likely the grave of William Haralson Kennedy, son of J.J. and Hester, who was born 15 Apr 1865 and died 27 Feb 1870.

Nancy Kennedy Kirby
1870 - 1943

James H. Kirby
25 Jan 1912 - 30 Sept 1944 (war casualty?)
GA Pfc., 168th Inf, WWII

Row 2:

Samuel Leathers
2 May 1846 - 22 Sep 1855

M.I. Leathers
7 Jun 1852 - 4 Dec 1852

Byron Kirby
9 Jun 1893 - 29 Jun 1969

Leta Kirby
24 Oct 1896 - 29 Jan 1983

One fieldstone-marked grave (child).

Row 3:

Allen Ray Brittain
2 Nov 1947 - 19 Jun 1997
SP4, U.S. Army, Vietnam

Double marker for infant twins
Jeromy Ralph Brittain      Jeffery John Brittain
11 Aug 1974 - 12 Aug 1974      11 Aug 1974 - 13 Aug 1974

William W. Winn
24 Oct 1883 - 28 Jun 1976

Nellie M. Winn
16 Jul 1887 - 30 May 1964

Elizabeth Winn
1862 - 1951

J.M. (James M.) Alexander
2 Nov 1840 - 24 May 1915
Co. C 30th Georgia Inf, CSA

C.E. Alexander
(w/o J.M. Alexander)
9 Oct 1837 - 26 Apr 1929

A.J. Hassell
(d/o G.A. Hassell)
3 Jul 1858 - 15 Jun 1862

M.J. Hassell
(d/o G.A. Hassell)
25 Apr 1854 - 29 May 1854

A grave completely surrounded by fieldstones but open on top, no information.

Row 4:

Enclosed box tomb with no information.

John Kennedy
Apr 1791 - 28 Oct 1848

Elizabeth Kennedy
(w/o John Kennedy)
3 Jan 1796 - 2 Jan 1874

Row 5:

Kennedy
Mar 1846 - Aug 1847
(This is the grave of a slave, a little girl named Tebia.)

Two other slave names are known: a woman named Looky who was born circa 1789, and another young woman known as Matilda who was born circa 1826. It is not known if they are buried in the cemetery or perhaps in the graves outside the perimeter road.

Submitted by Sandy Whittington