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Subject Files : Cemeteries

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Photographs- Cemeteries

 

Adams, Salatheil- 1978

Alford

Bagwell

Boring, Reverend- 1999

Braden

Brockett Oaks, or Towers Family

Chesnut

Chupp

Clarkston Town cemetery

Clifton Methodist

Crowley family

Dabney Shumate

Decatur

Diamond Mitchell

Donaldson family

Double Springs

East View, “A Grave Affair”, October 28, 2023

Ebenezer

Eidson

Fairfield Baptist/Kilgore Rd

Fellowship Primitive Baptist

Gresham-Weed

Hardman

Henderson family- Rufus, Greenville, other

Henderson, William G. family cemetery

Indian Creek

Lithonia One/Bruce Street

Livsey Memorial

Marvin

Midway

Millican family

New Bethel AME-2004

New Hope Methodist-1999

Old Fellowship

Old Flat Shoals

Old Macedonia-1991

Paupers

Peachtree Baptist

Pickens Lee

Pounds family

Prospect Methodist

Prosperity

Rehoboth

Roberston

Scottdale

Solomon Goodwin

Stone Mountain

Sylvester

unknown

Veal-Smith family

Wade

Wesley Chapel Methodist

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CEMETERY SUBJECT FILES

The cemetery files are comprised mainly of Franklin Garrett’s cemetery records for DeKalb County, Georgia. Mr. Garrett created these records in the early 1930s by visiting cemeteries within a 25 mile radius of Five Points in Atlanta and transcribing the headstones. The original Garrett cemetery records can be found at the Atlanta History Center.

 

Georgia Department of Community Affairs Frequently Asked Questions Cemeteries

 

General Files

Cemetery Preservation

Miscellaneous

Publicity regarding Georgia cemetery laws

Symbolism

 

 

 

Cemeteries

Adair family

Adams, John

Adams, Salathiel family

Akers family, Gwinnett County

Akins, Thomas J.

Alford family

Anderson family- Lithonia

Anderson family- Stone Mountain

Arabia Mountain Heritage area

Arnold family

Bagwell family

Bethel Baptist

Bishop family

Boring, Rev. Jesse

Braden family

Brockett Oaks, or Towers family

Cedar Grove

Chamblee Baptist Church

Chestnut Hill

Chestnut Knob, or Thomasville

Chupp family

Clarkston Town

Clay/Kirkwood:

Clay cemetery

Genealogy

Land survey

The Clay family & Kirkwood Baptist Church

Clifton United Methodist

Clifton Springs

Cochran family 

Crosby-Woodall

Crowley family

Dabney-Shumate family

Dawn Memorial Park

Dean family – Gwinnett

Dean, T.J. family

Decatur – Franklin Garrett List (1 of 5) (map in oversized storage)

Decatur  (2 of 5)

Decatur  (3 of 5)

Decatur  (4 of 5)

Decatur  (5 of 5)

Dempsey- Perkerson family

Diamond-Mitchell family

Donaldson family

Double Springs

Doraville

Ebenezer Primitive Baptist Church

East View

Eidson

Fairfield Baptist Church

Family cemetery- LaVista Rd area

Farmer family

Fellowship Primitive Baptist

Flat Rock United Methodist, also Robinson family

George family- Rockdale

Gholston, Zachariah family

Gober family, Gwinnett County

Goddard family

Goodwin Harris family

Goodwin, Solomon Jr. family

Gresham-Weed

Guess

Hall family

Hardman- Clairmont Rd  (map in oversized storage)

Hardeman Primitive Baptist Church- Glenwood Rd

Hearn

Henderson

Henderson, Greenville family

Henderson, Rufus family

Henderson, William G.

Howell

Hulsey family

Humphries family

Indian Creek 

Johnson family

Johnson, William

Johnson-Goldsmith-Maddox (map in oversized storage)

Jones- Perkins- Hawkins

Kelley’s Chapel Methodist

Kelley family

Klondike Baptist, also Philadelphia Baptist- Lithonia, 16th district, lot #113

Langford Henderson

Leverett-Leverette

Lithonia town

Lithonia (African-American) (1 of 2)

Lithonia (African-American) (2 of 2)

Livsey family

Macedonia Baptist

Mahaffey family

Marbut family

Martin, Stephen

Marvin

Mason Baptist  (African American)(aka Mt Moriah and IOB Lodge)

Master’s

Mathews, G.W.

Mauldin family

Midway Baptist

Midway Presbyterian

Miller family /Ebenezer

Miller-Morris family

Millican family

Mitchell family

Mt. Carmel Church of Christ

Mt. Moriah Church  (African-American)(aka Mason and IOB Lodge)

Mt Pleasant Baptist

Mt. Zion A.M.E. church

Mountain View Baptist

Mountain View (now Melwood)

Nancy Creek, including MARTA reports from 1985 (3 folders, 1 notebook)

Nesbit family

New Bethel A.M.E

New Hope Methodist, Decatur

New Hope, Dunwoody

Norris family

Oak Grove Baptist

Oak Grove Methodist

Oakland

Old Crossroads

Old Fellowship

Old Flat Shoals or Morris family

Old Klondike Baptist, 16th district, lot #144

Old Macedonia Methodist

Old Mt. Cavalry Methodist

Old Mt Pisgah

Old Wesley Chapel

Ousley Chapel Methodist

Panthersville or White’s

Pauper’s cemetery (Mountainview)

Peachtree Baptist

Phillips (African American)

Pickens Lee family  (graves were moved to Melwood in 1989)

Pierce Drive- Chamblee

Pleasant Hill Baptist

Poplar Springs Baptist Church

Prospect Methodist

Prosperity

Rainey, Bennett or Smallpox cemetery

Redan

Rehobeth Baptist Church

Robertson family

Robinson family, also Flat Rock

Rock Chapel Methodist Church

Rock Chapel Methodist Church slave cemetery

Rock Springs Primitive Baptist

Scott family

Scottdale (African American)

Shaw family

Sheppard, David family

Sheppard, William family

Singleton -Gwinnett

Smith McElroy (also known as Mocasin Gap)

Snead-Smith

Sodom, Gwinnett County

Stamps Chapel (or Parker family)- Decatur, Panthersville

St. Paul’s Baptist (African American)

Steele family

Stephenson, John family

Stonecrest (topographical maps only)

Stone Mountain (2 folders)

Stowers family

Sylvester (map in oversized storage)

Terrell-Ford

Thomasville  (African American), or Chestnut Knob

Tidwell family

Towers, Isaac family

Turner family

Turner Hill Missionary Baptist

Unknown cemetery at Thurman/Old McDonough Rd

Veal

Veal-Smith

Vinson

Wade, Mary T family- Lithonia

Wade family- Stone Mountain

Waldrop family

Warbington family

Warsaw Methodist- Fulton County

Washington Park/Washington Memorial Gardens  (African American)

Webb

Wells, Elisha family

Wesley Chapel Methodist

Wheeler, Jacob

Winters Chapel Methodist

Wright, Spencer P family

Wright, William family

Zion Baptist (between Clarkston and Stone Mountain)