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Old Burch Cemetery - April 2022 Towns County, GA |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2022) |
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Old Burch Cemetery - April 2022 Towns County, GA |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2022) |
| The Towns County Historical Society sponsored a clean-up work day at the old Burch Cemetery (Cemetery Island) on Lake Chatuge. We had a great turn out and accomplished a lot, including the installation of a new cemetery sign. With the coming of Lake Chatuge in 1941, the TVA relocated over 330 graves from this cemetery. Families chose to leave 30 graves here in their original location. We located and marked all 30 of those graves. |
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| Our work group at the start of the day |
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| New cemetery sign |
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| End of the day, gathered around the new sign |
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| Sandra (TCHS president) and me. Since I was taking the photos, I had to get in at least one pic! |
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| Hooper family gravestone |
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| Same gravestone, after an initial application of stone cleaner. ...and addition of some dirt to the sunken grave. |
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| Thomas J. Hooper footstone |
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| Sarah E. Hooper footstone |
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| Araminta Caroline Hooper gravestone |
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| Detail of Araminta's stone |
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| Araminta C. Hooper footstone |
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| Infant Gregory - head and foot stone |
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| Burch, Gibson & Gettis family gravestones |
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| Burch and Gibson family gravestones |
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| Burch family gravestone |
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| Martha Burch Holmes memorial marker |
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| Mary J. Gibson - upper portion of stone |
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| Mary J. Gibson - middle of stone |
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| Mary J. Gibson - footstone |
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| Gettis head and foot stone There were 5 Gettis graves here, for M.M., Nancy, P.H., Henry, and Willie. |
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| Gettis head and foot stone |
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| Gettis head and foot stone |
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| Gettis grave stone |
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| The last of the 5 Gettis grave stones |
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| Stone-walled plot, with "giraffe" stonework style and "grapevine" joints. The grave(s) within the enclosure were moved, but the wall remains in place. From the TVA record, it appears that Rose Kimsey was buried here. |
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| Kimsey gravestone |
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| Kimsey gravestone |
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| The stone-walled plot, from another angle |
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| Twiggs family graves |
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| Robert R. Twiggs |
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| Mary A. Twiggs |
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| Corine Twiggs |
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| Twiggs graves |
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| Mary L. Twiggs |
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| Georgia Twiggs |
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| Jeremiah Twiggs |
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| Infant Twiggs Child of J.P. & L.H.; only lived one day... |
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| Willie Mae Barrett Child of Virgil Barrett |
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| Chastain family graves |
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| Homer Chastain grave marker |
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| Infant Chastain grave marker |
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| Modoneia Chastain grave marker |