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Tombstone for Lee Murray, Wilcox County, Georgia.
Example of a Victorian Children's Grave Marker.


"...Cemeteries are a good place to accumulate information that can provide
insight into a community's social and economic structure, its religious
tenets, and its ethnic composition." - D. Gregory Jeane

This "Southern Graves" website is your online guide to the history, the
research, and the preservation of cemeteries in the Southern United
States. Genealogists, Historians, and the Curious are most welcome!


Southern Graves Site Outline

Specific CemeteriesDeath Records Resources
- Bonaventure Cemetery; Chatham County, Georgia
- Cedar Creek Cemetery; Wilcox County, Georgia
- Gunn Cemetery; Houston County, Georgia
- Liberty Baptist Church Cemetery; Dooly County, Georgia
- Memory Hill Cemetery; Baldwin County, Georgia
- MULLIS Family Cemetery; Pulaski County, Georgia
- Old Snow Hill Church Cemetery; Wilcox County, Georgia
- Rose Hill Cemetery; Bibb County, Georgia
- Sasser Cemetery; Houston County, Georgia
- Smithville Baptist Church Cemetery; Houston County, Georgia
- Vienna City Cemetery; Dooly County, Georgia
- Welborn / Wellborn Cemetery; Houston County, Georgia
- Wesley Chapel Cemetery; Crawford County, Georgia
- Cemetery Listings:
    - Dodge County, Georgia
    - Polk County, Georgia
- Death Records Online
    - North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register
    - North Carolina Wills, 1665-1900
    - Virginia Colonial Records
- Find A Grave
- Footnote
- World Vital Records

Vital Check
General Cemetery, Death & Funeral InformationMore Stuff of Interest
- Historical Death Industry News
- Interesting Graves:
    - Daniel Ryder, U.S. Colored Infantry
- Lynching Victims in America
- Native American Sacred Sites
- Southern Folk Cemetery History
- Undertakers, Coffins, & Furniture
- Woodmen of the World Memorials

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Books:
- Sacred Places North America: 108 Destinations
- Savannah Cemetery Books
- Southern Graves Cemetery & History Books
- Where the Lightning Strikes: The Lives of American Indian Sacred Places

Links to Other Sites:
- Death Wail
- Old News
- Old News Blog
- Origins of Undertaking
- Southern Graves Blog
Cemetery Preservation
1873 Undertaker Ad
- Cobb County, GA Cemetery Preservation Commission
See a cemetery in Cobb County being damaged? Report it through this site!
- Polk County, GA Cemetery Preservation Committee
Volunteer and/or donate if you can!
- Texas Historical Commission's Rescuing a Neglected Cemetery [pdf]


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This is a Cemetery...
Lives are commemorated, Deaths are recorded, Families are reunited,
Memories are made tangible and Love is undisguised.

This is a Cemetery...
Communities accord respect, Families bestow reverence, Historians seek
information and Our Heritage is thereby enriched.

Testimonies of devotion, pride and warmth are carved in stone to pay warm
tribute to accomplishments and to the life, not the death, of a loved one.
The cemetery is homeland for memorials that are a sustaining source of
comfort to the living. A cemetery is a history of a people, a perpetual
record of yesterday and a sanctuary of peace and quiet today.

A cemetery exists because every life is worth loving and remembering – always.

[From the Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery brochure, Middle Village, New York, author unknown]


But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
Matthew 10:30 KJV

Have a great day!

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