Editors
Note: In the 1850's, Sutton's Corner was a stagecoach
stop.
Saturday, June 18, 1994
Hello, Thank you so much for your
wonderful writeup on "Sutton's Corner". From it I feel that I can almost
touch the place where my great great grandparents died. And I don't even know their
names.
Their son's name was Jesse Lawson Wilkerson and as an orphan he was raised
by Vincent A Smith and his wife Charity Hayes Smith in Randolph County, Ga. The 1860
cencus says that Jesse is 15 years old. That is the first cencus on which he appears.
Following Cencus will differ on his age. I don't think even he knew how old he was. But
he said that his parents were traveling by stagecoach, showing off their new son, when
they grew sick and died at Sutton's Corner. I will visit this place soon and try to
find the graves of the grandparents of my father, whose names he never knew. I will
visit Sutton's Corner museum and perhaps touch something that they once touched. Thank
you again for bringing this place from a shadowey, misty, somewhere in the past place,
to a real place, a place that still survives.
Peggy Wilkerson Buchan,
St.
Simons Island, Ga.
