From: Hornblower16@aol.com
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 14:47:07 EST

Abraham Lake (Abin) born either 1/14/1784 or 4/18/1784.
Married to Elizabeth Acree (born 2/14/1793 - probably in Greene County, GA) 
on 1/10/1810
She died on 2/18/1861 and is buried in the Forsyth (GA) City Cemetery.
I did see her grave when I was there a couple of years ago but nothing on 
Abraham.
Abraham died 6/2/1866 probably on his plantation near Forsyth in Monroe 
County, GA.

They had 10 children:
Seany born 1811 (?) married John (Francis?) M. Powell
Martha
Emily
Mary Ann born 12/1/1830
Elizabeth
Joseph (there is a Joseph M age 1 year 5 months also buried with Elizabeth in 
the Forsyth City Cemetery. I am assuming it is this Joseph which is probably 
the wrong thing to do!
James born 1823?, died 8/14/1848. Buried with mother in Forsyth City Cemetery
John Wood born 1829, died 7/4/1880
Francis born 2828 or 1830
Sallie Lavonia born 11/4/1837, died 1/4/1899. Married Fletcher Leak on 
7/101865. He was born 1829 and died 1900.
(Hope I typed all this right)

John Wood Lake is my great grandfather. He died a few months before his 
second wife Mary Jane Godfrey who passed away 10/12/1880. (His first wife was her 
sister Martha and he married them both in Savannah)
I can find no record of were he or his wives are buried.
As with Abraham, who was fairly well to do, at least before the war, this 
family wasn't downtrodden and there should be a record of their demises somewhere 
and where buried. So frustrating!!!!


Don



From: Hornblower16@aol.com
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 19:24:36 EDT

Here is an update I overlooked....James Lake moved to Cave Springs, GA
not Cane. It is a suburb of Rome and I just recently wrote Floyd County
and Rome Chamber to get some info on the area from them, including a
cemetery listing with locations.