Hazlehurst Cemetery Brantley County, Georgia; @GlynnGen.com

This cemetery is located in Waynesville, Brantley County, Georgia on Mumford Road [county road 158]. When traveling west on Hwy. 82, go 1.2 miles past Old Post Road and C.R. 158 will be on your right. About two tenths of a mile on your left is the cemetery directly across from the Mumford House. There are 10 graves marked with stones in this cemetery.

According to the Brantley County, GA website, in describing his venture into the Mumford estate, area writer, Carr McLemore, wrote in the Jesup Press-Sentinel, November 29, 1980, the following: "...farther along, where the vines grow dense, trees grow tall and moss hangs low, one may search for... the stately Mumford house." Upon his discovery of the Hazlehurst Cemetery, just across the road from the Mumford house, he writes "one goes through a veritable jungle in search for an old family cemetery...now for the researcher, the question arises: who really lies here? Oh, the names are there, but who were John M. Hazlehurst, Jane Johnston Hazlehurst, Mary Jane Hazlehurst and Layton (spelled Leighton) Hazlehurst?" This question is deemed one of the Mysteries of Brantley County.

In Georgia's Land of the Golden Isles, Burnette Van Story writes that "In 1843 Mary Jane McNish was married (at John Couper's Cannon's Point Plantation on St. Simons Island) to Leighton Wilson Hazlehurst, the son of Robert and Elizabeth Wilson Hazlehurst whose families were among the earliest settlers of Glynn County". Also that "Ann Johnston McNish spent the war years with Mary Jane (her daughter) and her family at their summer home in Wayne County, where she died in 1869". Ms. Van Story goes on to recount that the Johnstons were related to the Coupers and when Ann and her sister, Elizabeth, were orphaned at an early age they were taken in and raised at the Couper home. John Couper's son, James Hamilton Couper also built a summer home (now called "The Lodge") less than a quarter of a mile from the Hazlehurst Cemetery.

Many years ago, according to St. Mark's Episcopal Church records, there was an Episcopal Church standing here, most likely started by the Hazlehurst family, as they were founders of St. Mark's here in Brunswick. This may explain why the cemetery was started at this location, plus the fact that they may have had a home in the area.

First Row #1
IN LOVING
MEMORY OF
JOHN McNISH
HAZLEHURST
BORN
APR. 21, 1847
DIED
JULY 1, 1884

Second Row #2
JANE E. JOHNSTON
Born
Dec’r 5, 1787
Died
Dec’r 5, 1877
(footstone J.E.J.)

Second Row #3
OUR LITTLE
JANE
Born Oct. 26th
Died Nov. 3d 1853
(footstone J)

Second Row #4
TO MY MOTHER
who departed
in her Eighty fourth year
For so he giveth his beloved sleep.

Through her long life she ever
Manifested the loveliest social
virtues, the most eminent
christian graces, and has left
a shining example of pure
and undefiled religion.
Having fought the good fight
and kept the faith she rests
(broken)
do follow her.
“Her children arise up and call
her blessed” and shall be
in everlasting remembrance.
(footstone)

Second Row #5
MARY JANE
wife of
L.W. HAZLEHURST
Born
Feb’y 14, 1822.
Died
April 17, 1878
(footstone M.J.H.)

Second Row #6
LEIGHTON W. HAZLEHURST
BORN
Aug. 20, 1820
DIED
Aug. 2, 1882

Third Row #7
IN
Memory of
FANNIE L. HAZLEHURST
WIFE OF
ROBERT HAZLEHURST
Sept. 1st 1867
Aged 53 Years
And 10 months
(footstone)

Third Row #8
TO
DARLING TIVI
Died
11th August 1856
Aged
2years 8 days.
R. & .F.H.
(footstone D.T.)

Third Row #9
EMILY
Wife of
P. Alston Hazlehurst.
Born Nov. 28, 1853.
Died Nov. 10, 1877
“Blessed are the dead who die in the
LORD.”
(footstone E.H.)

Third Row #10
P. ALSTON HAZLEHURST
Born Nov. 18, 1846
Died Nov. 13, 1877.
“Asleep in Jesus blessed sleep.”
T.H. Artope,
Macon, Ga.
(footstone P.A.H.)

***Note: There is a pillar that is lying down within the cemetery with no inscription on any side of its sides.
It is unknown by me where exactly in the cemetery the stone stood, nor whose grave it may have marked.

Surname	Given Name	Maiden Name	Birth Date	Death Date	Burial	Sex	Age	Notes
HAZLEHURST	Emily	Tison	28 Nov 1853	10 Nov 1877		F	23	p. John Mason Berrien Tison & Anne Greene Lee Mitchell; m. Pinckney Alston Hazlehurst; b. Glynn Co., Georgia; d. Glynn Co., Georgia
HAZLEHURST	Frances Louisa	Nicolau	01 Nov 1813	01 Sep 1867		F	53	p. Bernard Nicolau & Marie Elizabeth Felicite Grand duTreuille; m. Robert Hazlehurst, Jr.; d. Waynesville, Wayne, Georgia
HAZLEHURST	Jane		26 Oct 1853	03 Nov 1853		F	8 da	p. Leighton Wilson Hazlehurst & Mary Jane McNish
HAZLEHURST	John McNish		21 Apr 1847	01 Jul 1884	2 Jul 1884	M	37	p. Leighton Wilson Hazlehurst & Mary Jane McNish; m. single; cod. cancer; b. Waynesville, Wayne, Georgia; d. Glynn Co., Georgia
HAZLEHURST	Leighton Wilson		20 Aug 1820	02 Aug 1882	3 Aug 1882	M	61	p. Robert Hazlehurst, Jr. & Elizabeth Petingale Wilson; m. Mary Jane McNish; b. Waynesville, Wayne, Georgia; d. Glynn Co., Georgia
HAZLEHURST	Mary Jane	McNish	14 Feb 1822	17 Apr 1878		F	56	p. John McNish & Ann Mary Johnston; m. Leighton Wilson Hazlehurst; d. Waynesville, Wayne, Georgia
HAZLEHURST	Pinkney Alston		18 Nov 1846	13 Nov 1877		M	30	p. Robert Hazlehurst, Jr. & Frances Louisa Nicolau; m. Emily Tison; b. Brunswick, Glynn, Georgia; d. Brunswick, Glynn, Georgia
HAZLEHURST	Stephen Nicolau		03 Aug 1854*	11 Aug 1856		M	24 mo	p. Robert Hazlehurst, Jr. & Frances Louisa Nicolau; b. Brunswick, Glynn, Georgia; d. Glynn Co., Georgia
JOHNSTON	Jane Elizabeth		04 Dec 1787	04 Dec 1877	5 Dec 1877	F	90	p. Thomas Johnston & Mary Wright Dews; m. single; b. Hermitage, Chatham, Georgia; d. Waynesville, Wayne, Georgia
MCNISH	Ann Mary	Johnston	22 Sep 1786	11 Nov 1896		F	110	p. Thomas Johnston & Mary Wright Dews; m. John McNish; b. Hermitage, Chatham, Georgia; d. The Lodge, Wayne, Georgia. Note: Burnette Van Story reports that Ann died in 1869 not 1896