Perdue-Beasley Cemetery
Location: From Sheppard Street and Ivey go 9/10 of a mile to Gate on left to old Beasley place through gate 1/4 of a mile along hedgerow. Cemetery on the right. The cemetery has very old cedar trees.
| Name | Born | Died | Notes |
| Lillie Wilkerson Beasley | 1st w/o Solomon R. "Tol" Beasley | ||
| Mary E. Perdue Beasley | 7-23-1830 | 5-18-1904 | w/o Sylvester Beasley & d/o Newton Perdue & E. Beasley |
| Millie Clark Beasley | 1-17-1883 | 7-4-1954 | 2nd w/o Solomon R. "Tol" Beasley - married 12-21-1904 |
| Solomon R. "Tol" Beasley | 3-27-1870 | 5-24-1950 | s/o Sylvester Beasley & M. E. Perdue. The Augusta Chronicle list his obituary as 5-24-1953. Member of Stapleton Baptist Church and Gibson Masonic Lodge F and AM No. 257. Three sons, Eddie Eugene Beasley & Albert Samuel Beasley of Avera, Ga., Roy Solomon Beasley of Augusta. One daughter, Mrs. Josie Hughes, Martinez, Ga. Blanchard Funeral Home. |
| Sylvester Beasley | 9-10-1835 | 2-28-1927 | |
| Abram B. Gay | 7-31-1850 | 10-8-1915 | s/o Rachel Beasley & James Gay; married 5-13-1869 |
| Mary Jane Perdue Gay | 5-3-1852 | 4-13-1932 | d/o Jackson Monroe Perdue & Margaruite Hughes Perdue |
| Missouri Isabelle Gay McGraw | 8-11-1872 | 8-23-1918 | d/o Abram & Mary J. Gay; w/o John E. McGraw; married 12-23-1888 |
| Benjamin Newton Perdue | 1843 | 11-18-1907 | s/o Newton Perdue & Elizabeth Beasley; Co. E. 48 Ga. Inf. CSA, 3-4-1862 - 6-5-1865 |
| Elizabeth Beasley Perdue | 1806 | 1858 | w.o Newton Perdue |
| Judah Elizabeth Persue | 1838 | ~~ | d/o Newton Perdue & Elizabeth Beasley |
| Judieth Perdue | 1867 | ~~ | d/o Judah E. Perdue |
| Martha E. Perdue | 1840 | 4-9-1894 | d/o Newton Perdue & Elizabeth Beasley; mother of James F. Perdue |
| Mary J. Perdue | 9-29-1910 | 6-10-1914 | d/o Willis & Salley Gay Perdue |
| Newton Perdue | 1801 | 1870 | s/o Wm. & Judah Perdue; married E. Beasley, 5-25-1825 |
| Robert Perdue | 1836 | 1858 | s/o Newton Perdue & Elizabeth |
| Savannah Newsome Perdue | 1851 | 10-9-1930 | w/o Benjamin N. Perdue; married 8-17-1868 |
| William Perdue | 1841 | 5-1864 | Co. I. 28th Regt. Ga. Inf. CSA, Killed at Petersburg, Va |
| Sampson Whitehead | 11-12-1919 | 1-13-1923 | s/o Julian Whitehead & Toy Williams |
| Jane Wilkerson | 1835 | ~~ | w/o Jesse W. Wilkerson |
| Jessie W. Wilkerson | 1827 | ~~ | h/o Jane Wilkerson; Co. I. 28 Ga. Inf. CSA, Henderson's |
Notes: An article in Ancestoring Through Newspaper Columns, by C. W. Stephens, Column No. 22.
Mr. John Thomas Perdue celebrated his 93nd birthday with a party at his daughters home, Mrs. Leomey Windom, of Matthews, Georgia. During the party, Mr. Perdue told a story of his great- grandfather William Perdue. He stated he came over from Ireland to settle in Ashville, North Carolina during the first part of the seventeenth century. He later came to settle in Georgia, Jefferson County. He also related how his ancestors had to wait three days for the water to go down so they could cross the Savannah River. He brought with him his seven sons and two daughters. He lived to be 96 years old and his elder son lived to be 106 years old. Mr. Perdue was born in a log cabin in Jefferson County and he married Miss Ruth Ann Connell in 1877 and later moved to Augusta where he ran a blacksmith shop and was employed at the Bon Air Hotel. He also ran a shop in North Augusta, near Fifteenth Street bridge. In 1903, his wife died and three years later he married and moved to Wrens, Ga., where he lived until his second wife died.
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