New Echota Cemetery

On the hilltop, 100 yards to the south, is the cemetery for the village of New Echota. The marked graves are those of Pathkiller, Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation until his death in 1827 and a colonel in Morgan's ...

Rockport Cemetery of Pioneer Days

Now Fairview Park Cemetery

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Here rest early settlers of this area of old Rockport Township, soldiers of the American Revolution and of four succeeding wars. Dates of first burials have been lost to memory in their antiquity.

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Butternut Ridge Cemetery 1835

Isaac Scales (1786-1821) settled on this site. At his death, he was buried in his back yard. A large rock marked his grave. The land was reclaimed by Charles Olmsted who deeded it to the Township in 1835 for a ...

Sardis Presbyterian Church & Cemetery

The first residence of missionaries sent in 1821 to establish the Turnip Mountain Mission to the Cherokees was located on this site, just north of the Cemetery wall. The mission, later known as Haweis, was built two miles to the ...

The Shirley Cemetery

This small family cemetery is the final resting place of Richard O. (1802-1857) and Susan (1813-1880) Shirley and possibly several of their six children.

Richard Shirley was a farmer and tavern keeper who owned approximately 400 acres of land near Gainesville ...

Brownsboro Norwegian Lutheran Cemetery

After migrating from Norway in 1845, Ole Reierson bought the land that included this cemetery site (1.' mi. ESE). He chose the spot for his burial and carved several of the plain brown gravestones before he died in 1852. The ...

Old Belleville or Troup Cemetery

Within these walls are buried Captain Troup, British Naval officer, and his wife, Catherine McIntosh Troup. They were the parents of George M. Troup, Governor

Georgia 1823-1827; U.S. Senator 1829-1833. It was on this plantation that Georgia M. Troup spent ...

Lafayette Cemetery No. 1

Established in 1833 by the City of Lafayette

The square was acquired from Cornelius Hurst and the cemetery laid out by Benjamin Buisson, city surveyor.

This was part of the Livaudais Plantation which had been subdivided into city squares in ...

Rock Hill Cemetery

Rock Hill Cemetery has served this area since the late 1800s. It is located on land granted to pioneer Alexander J. Clayton, who migrated here from Alabama with his wife, Martha (Carver), and his children in 1854. Clayton, who was ...

St. Andrew's Cemetery

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At the end of this avenue, on high land ovelooking the creeks and marshes, Thomas Spalding of Sapelo established his family burial ground. For many years the Spaldings and their kinsmen were buried there.

In 1867, Charles Spalding, son of Thomas ...