Friendship Baptish Church Cemetery

located on 126 between Sikes and Gaars Mill

The final resting place of many families including: Adams, Walker, Parker, Thornton, Crain, Smith, Gates, Simmons, Burnett, Head, and many other families that settled around the area during the mid-1860s.


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John Womack walking the cemetery looking for the grave of his gt gt gd mother.
Mary Emmoline Adams - Davis -Branch (See tombstone below)

"Six little babies in a row. The Heirs of N. S. & Elizabeth Adams." is what the sign behind them reads.
Newport Scott Adams was the youngest (#13) child of Washington B. Adams and a brother to Mary Emmoline above. His wife was Rachael Elizabeth Fatheree the d/o of William L. Fatheree and his wife, Caroline Branch.

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4 Womack babies buried 1981-1984

5 Burnett babies and a mother buried 1928-1940

 

Mary E. (Adams) wife of Archie Branch
1/20/1837 - 4/15/1914
d/o Washington Burgess Adams & Sarah (Lucas)
Married (1) _____Davis (4 ch) Married (2) Archie Branch (no ch)


 

Photos taken August 22, 1999

John & Annette Womack 

Web page (C) August 22, 1999 by Annette Carpenter Womack