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Midway Church Cemetery-Midway, Georgia

The Midway Cemetery was started in 1752 alongside the Midway Congregational Church. The cemetery contains markers that represent the many years the cemetery has been active. Victorian reliefs, wooden markers, and crypts are just some of the examples that can be found.

It and the church were placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

John Lambert, d. 1786
One of my favorite reliefs
View of the cemetery with obelisk
Reverend Moses Way, d. 1859
Slate marker
Rahn family wooden markers

High Point Cemetery-Cumberland Island, Georgia

Camden County

High Point Cemetery is located on the north end of Cumberland Island. Despite it being started in 1825, it serves as a mixed race cemetery where important early families are buried.

Based on other photos, this cemetery is cleaned but on an inconsistent basis.

Baxley Cemetery-Baxley, Georgia

This is a small town cemetery for Baxley, Georgia. Based on the ancestry records and location of the burials, this cemetery started out as segregated. The African American side had many plants that you see in the photos throughout the section. I don’t know enough about plants to know what they are or what they mean, but they do remind me of a stronger spider plant.

Little Salem Cemetery, Georgia

Through a grove a trees in Bryan County is this small cemetery near Groveland.

Guyton Cemetery-Guyton, Georgia

Founded in 1871 in Guyton, Georgia, this town cemetery showcases some Victorian monuments, mostly for children, and modern headstones. A Confederate section also contains the bodies of 26 unknown soldiers.

The Confederate section
James Donald Pickard Jr. (1898-1899)
Janie Simmons, 1989-1912

Willacoochee City Cemetery, Georgia

Willacoochee, Atkinson County

Left-Gaskins Angel, Top Right-Lost name, Below Right-Little Mabel Meeks