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Williamson Mausoleum at Orphans Cemetery

Eastman, United States of America

Williamson Mausoleum at Orphans Cemetery

Orphans Cemetery is a four-acre cemetery located at the southwest corner of Orphans Cemetery Road and Jim Harp Road between US 341 and US 23 near Eastman, Georgia. The area was originally known as Orphans in honor of Albert Genavie Williamson, a Dodge County entrepreneur, and his five younger orphan

ed brothers who moved there in 1873–74 from North Carolina. About 1885, A. G. Williamson donated the land and built the Orphans Christian Church. When a neighbor's child, George Paul Alexander Barnes, died in 1887, Williamson donated a burial plot across the road from the church. After the funeral, he had a magnolia tree planted by the child's grave. Other burials followed. The earliest were infants and young children of the Thomas, Weldy, and Lashley families. Other common names in the original acre are Hardy, Manley, Steele, Stuckey, and Williamson. On August 17, 1912, Williamson had a twin mausoleum and columned canopy, built from Georgia marble, erected at the cemetery. Under the canopy above the mausoleum is life-size statuary depicting A. G., his wife, Martha J. Buchan Williamson, and their nephew, Jay Gould Williamson. The statuary was sculpted from Italian marble in Carrara,...

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