There are several Rose Hill Cemeteries. This one is in Barrow County, Georgia near Winder. Monuments to children always have an air of sadness to them. I love the details of the little girl and the vase with flowers.
I don’t know much about the church, based on burials in the cemetery, I would guess this church was founded around 1900.
I do not know when the cemetery was founded, but based on the markers and death dates, I believe it was started right after the Civil War. There’s a mixture of Victorian and handmade markers.
While many cemeteries have separate sections for Black and white people that are remnants of segregation, this is the only cemetery I’ve visited where there are physical markers denoting the the Black and white sides.
Still, an active cemetery, the Jonesboro City Cemetery highlights a combination of Victorian monuments, handmade markers, and manufactured ones. It also illustrates that it was a segregated cemetery. The Black section sits at the back of the cemetery, and it has several markers showing men and women who were born into slavery but lived past the end of the Civil War.
Carroll County
Grave houses, also known as grave shelters, are a Southern burial practice that likely began in the Appalachian Mountains. Like mortsafes, they served a similar purpose to protect the grave from robbers. It also helped protect the burial site from the elements. Most grave houses have disappeared over the years due to the elements eventually deteriorating the wood.
This is the final resting place of Nannie Lambert Glass, who died in 1899, in Whitesburg City Cemetery.
The Tate Cemetery serves as the family cemetery for the Tate and Griffith families. It is a very elaborate family cemetery, which is not a surprise. This is the cemetery for the family of the Tate Marble Company.
