The Flint Hill Baptist Church once stood next to the Goldmine Cemetery. Goldmine Cemetery was also known as the Flint Hill Baptist Church Cemetery, and today is referred to as The Easler Family Cemetery. Only remnants of the foundation exist today. The church was eventually closed because of lack of attendance and area residents removed the structure, piece by piece, for the wood.

The church, like most churches of the day (late 1800's and early 1900's) was very strick in what it allowed its members to do. Drinking, partying, gambling and dancing were forbidden. The church minutes, now in the possession of Steven Joseph Easler, son of Joseph Dewitt Easler, tell the story of the church's view on the above mentioned sins.

The church, in regular conference with all the members in attendance, would openly decide what to do with an offending member. Such practices today would probably end in the church being sued. In once such meeting, it was brought to the attention of the congregation that one member had been seen dancing. It was decided that a delegation would go to the offending member and confront him with this charge and report back to the church. This was done. When the delegation reported back to the congregation, they informed them that the errant brother had firmly promised, "I won't dance anymore." The church took him at his word.

Another slack member was none other than Jacob A. Easler, the very Easler that brought all of the Easlers to the Augusta, Georgia area. It seems that Brother Easler had been laying out of church. Even though he knew that this was not permitted and even though the church authority had cautioned him in the matter, he continued to miss services. The church, meeting in conference, had had enough and turned Jacob out of the church.

Today, the cemetery and the remains of the church are surrounded by Federal Park Lands. Some years ago, the Federal Government deeded the area, about three acres, to be used as a cemetery. Joseph Dewitt Easler and other members of his family hold the deed to the property and plan to be buried there.
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The Cemetery itself is on land owned by the Federal Park Service, and is really in the middle of "nowhere". It is surrounded by Federal Park Land, and not easily located. The cemetery is not visible from the road.

From Thomson, take Hwy 17 north toward Washington, and 8.2 miles from interstate 20, turn right on Smith Mill Road. This is a dirt and gravel road. Follow this road for 2.7 miles, and look for trees on the left, marked with red paint stripes. Pull in between the trees. The Cemetery is in the woods to the left

The Cemetery is not kept up, and most of the headstones are not readable. According to the Funeral Home is Thomson, there are many graves without a marker. This is a mixed race cemetery.