CANDLER COUNTY, GA - CEMETERY Atwood-Turner Cemetery ***************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm *********************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Betty Spaid Helen Sharpley Permission granted by the Candler Candler County Historical Society at P.O. Box 325, Metter, GA 30439 to post their Cemetery Book on-line. Files submitted by Betty Spaid and Helen Sharpley December 2005. They only have a few books to sell and don't plan to have another printing. The cost of the book is $30. including shipping. The book is hard bound, 449 pages with index. Atwood-Turner Cemetery #30 Leaving Metter at Hwy 121 and 46, travel north on 121 for 3 city blocks, turn east on Lillian St. for exactly 1.3 mi. Turn left beside a metal commercial building. There is a small road that goes beside a pine forest with a locked gate. From Lillian St. travel the dirt road for .6 of a mile. Graves are on the right of the drive about 20 steps in a hardwood area. The property is now owned by the Franklin Estate. Key to gate is in their possession. The cemetery is abandoned. The stones are readable even though they are molded. It appears that a single stone and a double stone have been replaced facing the opposite direction. Two headstones are still facing east. Earliest grave marking, Nov. 2, 1868. Mary Wallace In Memory of Mary Wallace Born Sept. 2, 1873 d. Dec. 15, 1878 Let our fathers will be done She shines in endless day Mary Turner Atwood Our Mother Mary Atwood Born Oct. 7, 1801 Died Nov. 2, 1868 Judson Atwood Our Father Judson Atwood born Nov. 14, 1792 died April 7, 1871 Our parents Loudy Turner Loudy Turner Age 73 Gone but not forgotten born c. 1815 died c. 1895 Isaac Turner Age 76 born c. 1805 died c. 1881 Recorded 1997 by Lorine Hendricks with help from Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Atwood. Dates for Loudy Johnson Turner and Isaac Turner were provided by John Wesley Turner, Jr.