NIBLACK FAMILY CEMETERY

The community where the cemetery is situated was known as Virgil and early obituaries refer to burials in the Virgil Cemetery. Later, it became more commonly called the Niblack family cemetery. The cemetery represents the descendants of two daughters of James Montgomery, Jane, who married James Appleby, and Margaret, who married Thomas Niblack.

Thomas Niblack died in Jackson County after the 1840 census and before July 4, 1842 when his will was probated. Margaret accompanied some of her children to Tyler, TX, Smith County, after the 1850 census and died there of pneumonia in April of 1860 at the age of 82.

Hugh Niblack was the son of Margaret and Thomas. His wife, Emily Howard, was the daughter of Hardy Howard and Elizabeth Camp and granddaughter of Nathaniel Camp. Hugh and Emily had 12 children, 6 of which are buried in the family cemetery. Their children were these:

-Elizabeth T. P.
-Thomas Howard m. Julia Catharine Lyle - buried in Winder cemetery
-Luisa "Lou" C. m. James T. Lamkin - buried in Lawrenceville Town Cemetery in Gwinnett County
-Margaret Amanda m. Pleasant J. Roberts - buried in Pendergrass cemetery
-Harvey Ann m. John Newton Hardy - buried in Woodbine
-Octavia E. m. John Reuben Lanier
-William Zachery T. m. 1) Lula Loggins 2) Mollie Edwards
-Hugh Randolph m. Pauline Knox
-Virgil Augustus m. Alice Hardy - buried in Woodbine
-Cornelia Amelia "Nelie" m. W. Parks Bell - buried in Woodbine (per Bonnie Pierce Bell)
-Booth
-Sara Ada

Appleby	James	1779	1866
Appleby	James M.	1815	1845
Appleby	Jane	1781	1875
Appleby	William D.	1821	1851
Bell	Averrie W.	1909
Bell	James H.	1942	1967
Bell	Stoy	1894	1965
Gearin	Infant		1944 or 1945	child of Harold Gearin
Lanier	Octavia Niblack	Mar. 11, 1847	Apr. 15, 1930	wife of John R. Lanier m. Nov 5 1883
Niblack	Ada	June 20, 1865	Feb 6, 1937
Niblack	Alice Beryl (Hardy)	Feb 15, 1902	July 23, 1902
Niblack	Booth	May 16, 1861	Jan. 19, 1916
Niblack	Elizabeth T. P.	Aug. 11, 1840	Mar. 30, 1896
Niblack	Emily A. (Howard)	Mar. 12, 1824	Nov. 10, 1900	wife of Hugh M. Niblack, m. Sep. 25, 1839
Niblack	Hugh M.	Nov. 11, 1811	Jan. 23, 1872
Niblack	Hugh Randolph	1853	1933
Niblack	Infant	Jan. 29, 1881	Jan. 29, 1881	son of T.H. & J. C. Niblack
Niblack	Letcher Belle	Jun. 4, 1886	Aug. 9, 1887	daughter of V A & Alice Niblack
Niblack	Lula P. (Loggins)	Jul. 18, 1866	Dec. 1, 1897
Niblack	Mollie Edwards	Mar. 20, 1853	Aug. 11, 1918	Married on 20 Nov 1898 to Z T Niblack
Niblack	Pauline Knox	Jan. 18, 1871	Nov. 11, 1894
Niblack	Thomas	about 1768 in NC	about 1842 in Jackson Co	grave identified by Bonnie Pierce Bell
Niblack	Z. T.	no date	no date	husband of Lula P. Niblack
Roberts	Ionia Elrod	1871	Apr. 9, 1908	per obit dated Apr 16, 1908* Mrs John Roberts
Stringer	Jessie Niblack	Feb. 1, 1883	Jun. 16, 1905	wife of J T Stringer

The most unusual grave in the cemetery has no name.
If anyone knows who is buried here, please let me know.

Paulette Moon [email protected]

I have since heard from Bonnie Pierce Bell [email protected] whose husband William Park Bell is a descendant of Thomas and Margaret Montgomery Niblack. They identify this grave as that of Thomas Niblack. They got their information from Mrs. Stoy Bell who, in turn, got it from Ada Niblack, Thomas's granddaughter.

Bonnie also relates an interesting story about the metal cover on the grave "--after Margaret Niblack went to Texas, Hugh Niblack and his children purchased the iron cover and put on Thomas Niblack's grave. After Hugh Niblack died, his sons removed the cover and put it on Hugh Niblack's grave. Later Emily Howard Niblack (Hugh's wife) died they put a tombstone on Hugh and Emily Howard Niblack's grave and at that time they moved the cover back to Thomas Niblack's grave."