Description: All info per Tunnell survey and individuals' memories of the cemetery's location. Cemetery has been destroyed. Location: Best directions available [Location not confirmed]: From the Baldwin County Courthouse, go west on Hancock Street for 2 blocks or 0.2 mile (or the one large block containing Georgia College & State Univ.). Turn right on Clarke Street. Go one large block or 0.2 mile. Turn left onto Highway No. 22 west (Montgomery St.). Go west on Highway 22 for approximately 2.4 miles. Turn right at 212 West. Go about 5.3 miles to the water tower on right. Walk into the woods on the left side of the water tower and go 1/4 mile, along the property line, to the approximate area of the cemetery.

GPS coordinates: 33 08' 41" N 83 19' 49" W
or in degrees only form: 33.14472° N X 83.33028° W
GMD: 318
Cemetery Status: Inactive
Predominant race: White


Note that there are easier ways to get to the cemetery, such as through the new (2007) development to its southeast. Access this area via Lowe Rd.

Tunnell said the grave was in back of the W.S. Winn home near the Meriwether Railroad Station (off Meriwether Lane). The cemetery had a VA marker placed by the DAR in the 1930s. Since that time, Sinclair Lake has been dammed. An inlet (Buck Creek) is now between the Wynn home and the cemetery's estimated location. The estimated location would be behind the Wynn home by about 0.8 mile, if a direct line were drawn between the Wynn home and the estimated location. The estimated location would place the cemetery on Anderson's original property, which was Land Lot 117.

Willam Anderson Was a Revolutionary War Soldier.

Pension application of William Anderson W512 fn48Ga.

State of Georgia, Baldwin County

On this 27th day of February, in the year 1833, personally appeared in open court, before Lucius Q C Lamar, presiding judge of the Superior Court of said County, now sitting, William Anderson, of the 318th district, in said County, aged 70 years on the eighth day of January last (born in 1763). He has a record of his age. He enlisted, as well as he can now remember, in the year 1777, under Captain Burwell Smith & he thinks, Lieutenant Park in the County of Wilkes, & State of Georgia. He went in under Captain the Smith, to the Gourd Vine station, at the Cherokee Corner, in said State; where he remained in the service about 2 ½. He was then discharged, the term of his enlistment having expired. He afterwards entered the service as a volunteer rifleman, at Wrightsboro', in said State, under General
Elijah Clarke, went with that officer to the Siege of Augusta, & continued in service with him, until the
taking of that town. He was afterwards stationed as a militiaman at Philip's Fort, in said County of Wilkes & at a subsequent period, at Broad River station, under Captain Autry. He afterwards went under General Elijah Clarke, on an expedition, against the lower towns of the Cherokee Indians, at the same time that General Pickens [Andrew Pickens], as he understood, attacked the upper towns of that
tribe. The party to which he was attached, destroyed about seven of those towns. The company in which he enlisted was raised to go to the siege of Savannah; but on account of Indian depredations, that company did not join the Regiment; but was stationed on the frontier. He has not preserved his discharge, & he cannot prove his services by any witness in the neighborhood. Since the war he has
resided in Georgia, principally in Wilkes County.
He, the said William Anderson, hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.

Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid. S/ William Anderson

[Edmond Brantley, a clergyman, and Tomlinson Fort gave the standard supporting affidavit.]

Georgia, Baldwin County

Before me personally appeared William Anderson, who being duly sworn, deposeth & saith,that by reason of old age, & the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service: but, according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than two
& a half years, beginning in the spring of the year 1777, at the Gourd Vine Station. He afterwards, but in what year he does not remember, served at Augusta to the best of his recollection, not less than six weeks – being a private all the time. Afterwards, in what year he does not now remember, in the fall season, to the best of his recollection he was not less than a month in service, in the expedition against the Cherokees, & during this tour he was a private. During all of the periods of service herein specified & also six weeks at Philip's Fort & at Broad River, he was not employed in any civil pursuit, & for such
service he claims a pension.

Sworn to & Subscribed before me this 15th day of July 1833. S/ William Anderson
S/ John A. Cuthbart, J. J. C.

Answers to the questions propounded by the War Department:

Answer 1st . I was born in Buckingham County, in Virginia, in the year 1763.Answer 2nd . I have a record of my age, which I exhibited in court at the time of making my declaration in court.

Answer 3rd . I was living in the County of Wilkes, in the State of Georgia, when I was called into service. Since the revolution I have lived in that County, & in the County of Baldwin, where I now reside.

Answer 4th . He first enlisted under Captain Burwell Smith. He for the second period of his service, volunteered. He does not remember how he went into the service against the Cherokees, but believes that he volunteered them also; nor does he remember how, he was called into, the service at Philip's Fort, or at Broad River Station, at which place his he was in service not less than six weeks.

Answer 5th . He served with Captain Burwell Smith, Lieutenant Park, & he believes with Lieutenant
Gunnals, of the regulars. He also knew Colonel Dooly Regiment, & General Elijah Clarke, & others, among the militia: also General John Clarke, who well knew the applicant to be a revolutionary soldier,& publicly stated to General Lafayette.

Answer 6th . He received a discharge from Captain Burwell Smith, which has been lost.Answer 7th . Edmund Brantley, Tomlinson Fort, William Scurlock, William Scoggins, & others. Georgia, Baldwin County

Before me personally appeared William Anderson, who being duly sworn, deposeth and saith that the foregoing answers are true to the best of his knowledge & belief.

S/ William Anderson

Sworn to & subscribed before me this 15th day of July, 1833
S/ John A. Cuthbert, J. J. C.

[Mary Anderson, 67, filed in Baldwin County on May 2, 1853, stating that she is the widow of William Anderson, a pensioner under the pension act at the rate of $80 per annum; that she married said William on March 5, 1805; that William died on May 6, 1844.]

[In another affidavit, the heirs said to have survived William Anderson are listed as his widow and children as follows, Mary Anderson, widow, Louisa Anderson, Sarah Anderson, Allen G. Anderson,Thomas J. Anderson, Lazarus V. Anderson, Henry F. Anderson, David M. Anderson, Gilbert M. Anderson, Mary Ann Anderson, Martha S. Anderson, Ann Mariah Anderson, George W. Anderson and Lucy Ann Anderson.] * It appears that she is only naming her children with William and not William's children with Sarah Finch. These children are in his will.

[subsequent documents indicated that William Anderson was born on January 8, 1763

Their are about 50 pages in his packet. I have transcribe these for easier reading. The orginals are online for reading in their orginal handwritten state.

(Cynthia Greene Bozeman)

He first married Sarah Finch in 1791 their children were: Abraham, Nancy, James Finch, Gedion, John and William. He then married Mary Ann Hunnicutt on 5 Mar 1805. Their children were: Henry Floyd, Louisa, Allen Green,Sarah Finch, Thomas J,Lazarus Battle, Mary Ann,David Martin, Gilbert Madison, Martha Smith, Ann Mariah, George Washington and Lucy Ann. All these children are listed in his will.∼While doing my family genealogy, I came across his information....if anyone reading this knows anymore about him, please update...