American History Genealogy Project
Wilkinson County, Ga natives or residents who died in 2016
compiled from area newspapers, online funeral homes

A/B/C/D

Name Age Residence Date Burial
Michelle Glover Allen 44
Gordon
08-30
NA
Mary Louise Reynolds Balkcom
90
Gordon
07-02
Baldwin Memorial Gardens
Sandrah D. Ballard
-
Milledgeville
07-18
Cannon Quarters
Burnam Dupree Barlow 87
Warner Robins 07-18
Magnolia Park
Agnes Taylor Barron
92
Irwinton
07-14
Irwinton Masonic
Florine Knight Billue
91
McIntyre
07-20
Calvary Hill
James Olin "Skeet" Bloodworth
85
Danville
08-23
Pleasant Plains
John Bernard Bloodworth
83
Milledgeville

11-22
Baldwin Memorial Gardens
Willie Lee Brookins, Jr.
64
wn
05-17
Ivey Baptist
Betty Jane Hodges Brooks 74 Milledgeville 03-17   Snow Hill
John McMurray "Murray" Brooks
55
Gordon
12-21
Ramah
Reed Scott Brooks
75
McIntyre
09-09
NA
  Virgil Douglas Brooks
88
Gordon
09-03
Ivey Baptist Church
Frances Gail Bloodworth Broughton
57
Macon
08-11
Snow Hill
James Robert Brown 86 Centerville 02-08 Lucy Chapel UMC
Greg Bryant
52
Cochran
05-15
NA
Eva Loyd Burgamy
96
Toomsboro
04-15
Ebenezer Baptist
Charles Burney
77
Jeffersonville
06-14
Springhill CME
Juanita Stapleton Bush
86
Gordon
09-27
Ramah
Jean Hightower Butler 78 Irwinton 02-07 Red Level
Ruby Lee Cannie 55 Milledgeville 03-23 Council Cemetery
Lillian Carswell-Robinson
61
Irwinton/Atlanta 07/26
Wilkinson Co. City Cemetery(?)
Roy Milo Carter
63
Toomsboro
10/12
Parkhill Cemetery, Columbus
Barbara Louise "Woman" Watson Cheely 60 Sparta 03-22 Ebenezer Baptist 
Robert Coats
85
Irwinton
02-04
Allen Cemetery
Betty Jane Jackson Collins
86
Irwinton
06-18
New Providence Baptist
 Geraldine Bowen Coussins
99
Danville
12-10
Pleasant Plains Baptist
Rev. Jessie James Coverson
NA
Gordon, Milledgeville
12-26
Springhill CME
Joseph Michael Cowart 52 Irwinton
06-30
Bentley Family Cemetery
Lavada McMullen Criswell 81 Milledgeville 03-25 Nunn Wheeler
Jerry Crockett
61
Irwinton
12-14
Balls CME
James Thomas "J. T." Davidson 78 Allentown 03-06 Allentown City Cemetery
Juanita Storey Dean
98
Toomsboro
05-27
Philadelphia Baptist Church, Smith's Station, AL
Dorothy Starley Day
85
Gordon
10-08 Liberty Baptist
Akaira Dixon
46
Jeffersonville
05-29
New Providence Baptist Church
Georgia Alene Doke
79
Gordon
05-28
Snow Hill
Jimmy Floyd Dudley 77
Ivey 09-22
Ramah
Patti Yvonne Duke
60
Irwinton
08-31
NA
E/F/G/H
Name Age Residence Date Burial
Frank Willie "Billie" Edmond, Jr. 68
McIntyre
05-13
Brundage Mount Baptist
Mary Frances Goddard Edmond
89
McIntyre
05-25
Georgia Veterans Memorial Cemetery
Cheryl Bell Engram
59 Gray
04-30 Woodlawn Memorial Gardens
Betty Waller Ennis
81
Ivey
11-29
 Ivey Baptist Church
Elsie June Robertson Espich
56
Toomsboro
11-29
NA
Ann Evans
82
Ivey
12-24
Westview, Milledgeville
Dian Carswell Evans
69
Irwinton
10-01
Irwinton Masonic
Leila Mae Ford
72
Macon
03-30
Balls Church
Mary Eleanor Durshimer Etheredge
72
Gordon
08-27
Ramah
Raymond Earl Etheridge, Jr.
69
Gordon
08-05 Ramah
Dian Elaine Carswell Evans
69
Irwinton
10-01
Irwinton Masonic
Paul Douglas Folendore, Jr.
69
Haddock
12-20
Middle Georgia Memory Gardens
Leila May Ford
73 Macon
03-30
Kings Cemetery, Balls Church Rd.
Roselyn Mildred Fountain 83 McIntyre 02-10 New Elim Baptist Church Cemetery
Charles Virgil Frazier 83
Irwinton
12-08
NA
John H. Gasaway, Jr. 93 Gordon 02-08 Ramah
Katherine Humphries Gongora 74
Mt. Laurel, NJ
07-31
Hardies Chapel
Timothy "Tim" Granade, Jr.
82
Gordon
08-20
Snow Hill
Karen Elizabeth Grimes
58
Gordon
05-11
Ramah
Louise McCook Hall
97
Gordon
08-22
Ramah
Lettie Pearl Fleming Harden 88 Irwinton 04-08 Salem Methodist
Willie Nell Harris
57
McIntyre
04-27
Council Cemetery
Charles Daniel Harrison
67
Ivey
11-21
Nunn-Wheeler
Allen Carswell Hartley 67
Wilkinson County
09-27
NA
Ernest L. Hartley
76
Milledgeville
10-31
Baldwin Memorial Gardens
Teresa Dyer Hartley 51 Toomsboro 03-03 Ebenezer
  John Parker Hatfield 77 Ivey 01-22 Ivey Baptist
Shirley Hightower
77
Macon
03-31
Glenhaven Memorial Park
Lois Hollingsworth 86 Jeffersonville 01-23 New Providence Baptist
Linda Elizabeth Holmes
68
Gordon
08-31
NA
Frank Todd Horton 89 Dry Branch 01-20 NA
James E. Howell 74 Jones County 02-27 Ramah
Mary Francis Hawthorne Hudson 92 Sandy Springs 04-03 Hardie's Chapel

I/J/K/L

Name Age Residence Date Burial
Christopher Jermaine Jackson, Jr. 14
Milledgeville
10-03
Rose Hill, Gordon
Delores Billue Jackson
87
Toomsboro
06-08
Jackson Family Cemetery
Joan Beckham Jackson
77
Gordon
10-07
Ramah
SuEllen Holliman James
85
North Chesterfield, Va.
09-03 Holliman Family
Rayford Lee Jeanes
85
Gordon
12-06
Snow Hill
Margaret Burney Johnson
NA
Savannah
05-01
Magnolia Memorial Garden, Savannah
Nellie Stroud Johnson
66
Gordon
06-20
NA
Sandra L. Brown Johnson
74
Irwinton
04-14
Ramah
Vivian "Denise" Upshaw Kitchens
52
Gordon
07-10
NA
Betty Jean Cooley Lamb 59
Ivey
07-19
NA
Leon F. Lamb
89
Richmond Hill
09-14
Bonaventure Cemetery, Greenwich Section
Ernest "Slick" Landrum
69
Toomsboro
04-29
Ebenezer Baptist 
Natalie Denise Haywood Lawing
61
Warner Robins
05-10
Ramah
Minnie Lee Allen Loyd 83 McIntyre 03-06 Calvary Baptist

M/N/O/P

Name Age Residence Date Burial
Haven Rayne Macaluso  Inf. McIntyre 02-25 Ebenezer Baptist
Dagmar Horton Mason
89
Irwinton
07-11
Irwinton Masonic
Mary Elizabeth Butler McLemore
94
Americus 12-20
Big Sandy Baptist
Junior Meeks
76
Ivey
07-19
Private
Edythe Billue Miller
90
Irwinton
09-09
Ebenezer
Frank Mills
92
Toomsboro
08-23
Ebenezer
Harold Allen Mills 85 Toomsboro 02-21 Voice of Truth Church
Michael John Miskimen
64
Toomsboro
11-28
NA
Reider "Jill" Sims Mitchell
52
Gordon
09-12
NA
Lewis Jerome Mixon
91
Gordon
12-26
Lyster Family
Carolyn Avery Monroe
76
Toomsboro
12-21
NA
John Wayne Moody
50
Ivey
04-27 Ramah
Charles Dennis Moore 66
Gordon
07-11
Ramah
James Randolph Mullis, Sr.
77
Milledgeville
05-14
McIntyre Baptist Church
Virginia Smith Mullis
81
Milledgeville
06-25
McIntyre Baptist Church
Betty Ann Knowles Oliver
73
Toomsboro 07-02
NA
Marvin Lamar O'Neal
88
Macon
05-18
Glen Haven Memorial Gardens
Mary Virginia  Hill Parker
103
McIntyre
08-31
McIntyre Baptist Church
Lollie Layfield Peavy 74 Milledgeville 02-24 McIntyre Baptistt Church
George Cline Pennington, Jr. 84 Milledgeville 02-17 Baldwin Memorial Gardens
Elmer Thomas "Tom" Pierce, Sr.
86
Gordon
08-13
Nunn-Wheeler

Q/R/S/T

Name Age Residence Date Burial
William Henry Renfroe 69 Ivey 07-15 NA
Mary Lee Jackson Riner
94
Macon
04-16
Evergreen
Mildred Griffin Rozar  86 Gordon 03-10 New Haven Cemetery
Leroy Sanders
91
Milledgeville
08-19
Heritage Memorial Park
Evelyn Dean Scoggins
90
Macon
04-30
Ebenezer Baptist
Patricia Ann Payne Screws
73
Gordon
10-09
Snow Hill
Lynette Prater Seigler
74
Toomsboro
10-21
NA
David Sheffield 75 Dry Branch 02-11 Walnut Creek Baptist
Willie Mae Johnson Shinholster
75
Irwinton
04-30
Springhill CME
William "Bill" Shepherd
68
Irwinton
06-28
NA
Carol Ann Grinstead Silsby
67
Gordon
10-08
Hardie's Chapel
David Wilson Smith  94 McIntyre 03-02 Irwinton Masonic 
Elaine "Ladygal" Smith
66
Gordon
12-13
Ramah
Evelyn Knight Smith
76
Macon
10-20
Macon Memorial Park
Janelle Tharpe Smith
85
Milledgeville
10-02
Macedonia Church Cemetery
Lucille Gissentanner Smith
96
Toomsboro
07-02
Ebenezer Baptist
Vera Ethridge Smith 82 Gordon 03-05 Hardie's Chapel
James Henry "Jim" Snow
73
Milledgeville
11-09
Georgia Veterans Memoriall
Carrie Mae Solomon
80
Gordon
09-14
Rose Hill
Douglas Stapleton
67
Gordon
03-08
Branan-Vinson
James H. Stapleton
73
Coopers
03-12
Branan-Vinson
Ola McClure Steele
65
Milledgeville
07-13
Holliman Grove
Rupert Gilbert Taylor
87
Irwinton
11-09
Irwinton City Cemetery
Janel "Jannie" Lee Thomas
69
Irwinton
08-01
New Bethel Baptistl
Caroline Frances Toler
85
Milledgeville
04-27
Baldwin Memorial Garden
Shirley Louise Vinson Tollison  78 Milledgeville 04-11  Cooperville Baptist 
Shirley Ann Butts Tremon 85 Gordon 04-06 Gordon City
Samuel Trogdon
73
Gordon
12-12
NA

U/V/W/Y

Name Age Residence Date Burial
Audrey Hungate Vaughn 82
Eatonton
07-04
NA
Lucille Sims Veal 89
Gordon
12-13
Rose Hill
Darran O'Neal Walker 52 Irwinton 03-05 Parker Hill Baptist
Wayne Marion Weaver
68
Milledgeville 09-21 NA
Rachel Burney Wheeler
65
Gordon
04-20
Springhill CME
Shirlene Duncan Whitley
70
Macon
11-09
Private
Jimmy Lee Wilson, Jr.
44
Macon
06-10
Balls CME
Willie H. Wise
NA
Irwinton
05-01
NA
Carolyn Kirkland Wren
74
Gordon
08-20
Snow Hill
Joel Breeman Yancy
95
Laurens County
11-22
Walnut Creek Baptist
  Charles Edgar "Ed" Yaun 94
Gordon
07-12
Ramah
Christopher Clint Young
39
Irwinton
09-19
NA

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


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