Cemeteries of Forsyth County, Georgia

by

Donna Parrish
Bonnye T. Leary
  Garland C. Bagley

Copyright 1981
Donna Parrish & Bonnye Leary
Route 9, Box197
Cumming, Georia, 30130
All Rights reserved

Printed in United States of America

 This Mail Address is no longer correct.
Corrected address - 3690 Riviera Drive, Cumming Ga 30041

 Dedicated to

Broughton Wallace
25 Feb 1914 - 1 June 1976

Galdston Roe Green
24 Feb 1899 - 18 Jan 1977

The two men who encouraged this book
and were so helpful in my search for
abandoned cemeteries. 

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 INTRODUCTION

Time and weather and vandalism are taking their toll on old tombstones.  In 1972, we started copying these inscriptions so they would not be lost.  Many residents of Forsyth County were helpful in locating the old family and abandoned Church cemeteries.  In some cases we were hunting several cemeteries that turned out to be one - merely called by different names.  We often parked next to a barbwire fence, looked out across an overgrown woods and said,  "Well there's a cemetery in there somewhere."

Briars, rosebushes, honeysuckles, weeds, trees, shrubbery, snakes, and bees were all hinderances in getting our facts.  Tombstones that weather had worn away were the most frustrating.

Lake Lanier took its toll on several private cemeteries when it was flooded by the Corps of Engineers.  Several family cemeteries were moved to other existing cemeteries in the vicinity and as a general rule the Corps put a placque in the new place telling how many graves were moved.  We are not sure we have all of them.

We did the best job we could, but we know we have errors.  Some of the cemeteries will have no inscriptions of the stones set after 1972, while some will have stones copied as late as 1981 (depending on the date the cemetery was copied).

Columns will give the names, (any additional information given on the stone), birth date and death date.  If there was only one date on the stone it is shown as a birth date unless there was an indication that it was a death date.

We did not include all the verses, but items such as mother, son, husband, etc. were noted.  If the Inscription gave information it has been included.

our final note

Remember friends as you read on
We tried to copy all those now gone
May this book be all you wished
And please forgive anything we missed.

Donna Parrish
Bonnye T. Leary  

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Perhaps the most popular verse we found was

Remember friends as you pass by
As you are now so once was I
As I am now so will you be
So prepare yourself and follow me.

Juno's Obituary
From North Georgian April 7, 1905

Here lies a man who never did any good
And if he had lived he never would
Where he has gone and how he fares
No one knows and no one cares.

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 © Donna Parrish