This is a window photo view of Friendship Cemetery looking up the hill north east at section 1 or the older section. Many open areas abound with field stones or unmarked graves. The Bryant, Hill & Fitzpatrick memorials inhabit the area up the hill near the tree in the center. That area tends to be the oldest. Section one which is now about full grew outward in all directions from the center. WA 10/16/2006.
Panning to the right (more easterly) a bit we get another window photo view of Friendship Cemetery. This is looking up the hill north east at section 1 or the older section. We can see in the corner a bit of the church in the extreme right of the photo. As of this date I think I missed photographing and therefore listing several stones in the right portion of this view.
I remember the one and only time I was able to accompany my dad (Paul Austin b. 1912, d. 2003) back in 1988 on a family history trip to Culleoka. He took me to Wilkes - Campground and this cemetery. He knew many of the folks interred here and many of them were at least distant cousins of his and of course mine. Visiting this cemetery created a flood of childhood memories for him of the good folk's whose remains lye beneath this soil. It was one of those precious moments of life for both of us. With him being a native of Culleoka and having moved away to Alabama in 1940 he walked around the cemetery and began to relate information and stories of some of those persons he knew in his childhood. As we stroll about there were also silent moments in his memory when he recalled a childhood chum fallen early into death's grip, or a childhood friend's parent meeting an untimely death.
WA 10/16/2006.
This photo shows the area of the Bryant, Hill, Fitzpatrick and others. It is in the oldest part of the cemetery looking back west to slightly north. The big oak tree in the distance is in the northwest corner of Section 1.
We are looking northwest into Section 1 from near the church parking lot. The trees in the distance are in the northwest corner of Section 1.
