| ERGLE
CEMETERY Transcription for Douglas County, Georgia Located: Bankhead Highway, Douglasville, Ga. |
The
following inscriptions were copied by Joe Baggett in February 1977. The small cemetery is
adjacent what was then the Solid Rock Baptist Tabernacle, now the one-room West Douglas
Chapel of God, on Bankhead Highway west of Douglasville, .5 mi. west of Bright Star Road
at the quarry entrance.
John Ergle,
May 15, 1811-May 23, 1912
Mary, wife
of John Ergle, April 18, 1825-July 16, 1881
Ella Ergle,
April 9, 1871-March 3, 1917
(All above
names on one obelisk)
T.E.(?) Hix, Oct. 17 (?),1823- June 2(?),1874 (broken)
J.T. (or
J.E.) Hix, Oct. 12, 1843-May 27, 1864
Rebecca Hix,
wife of Reverend J.T. Hix, April 18, 1848-March 14, 1880
W.V.(?) Hix,
Nov. 18, 1858-Jan. 28, 1889
About 14
unmarked graves, most infants; three marked “Infant sons of Rev. and Rebecca Hix.”
(Note: Census records show that John Ergle, formerly of Lexington District, S.C., was born in 1815, not 1811. His wife was Mary Price of Lexington District. The Hix markers, made of a concrete-like material and painted with white paint, are almost illegible.)
