CANDLER COUNTY, GA - CEMETERY Bowen-Dekle 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. Bowen-Dekle Cemetery #6 Located 9 miles SE of Candler County Courthouse. Go East on I16 to the Excelsior Exit, right approximately 3/4 mile to first brick home on the right. Turn right approximately 1/2 mile and pass the Billy Wallace home, proceed 200 yards to a sign directing to cemetery. All graves face East. Surveyed 1999 by Ray and Kennedy Dekle John Mize 1 J. D. & S. J. Bowen Mar. 18, 1893 - Apr. 11, 1893 2 Ovelia Bowen Aug. 2, 1879 - Oct. 1880 3 Elisha Bowen Mar. 29, 1868 - Oct. 1873 4 Elder John B. Bowen Apr. 16, 1848 - Dec. 9, 1901 A faithful Primitive Baptist Minister 5, 6, 7 Wooden stobs 8 Margarite Bowen May 10, 1822 - Nov. 7, 1879 9 Silas Bowen Jan. 5, 1815 - Sept. 14, 1886 10 Margret Bowen 1819 - May 14, 1892 11 Infant Bowen Baby Deborah 12 Father John H. Bowen Oct. 17, 1817 - Oct. 2, 1871 13 Durand Dekle Son of M. J. Dekle Sept. 28, 1896 - Sept. 24, 1897 14 G. E. Dekle June 9, 1825 - June 22, 1886 15 Mary Jane Bowen Dekle Nov. 27, 1858 - Nov. 25, 1943 16 Elder Remer Dekle Feb. 9, 1858 - Jan. 13, 1903 North 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 2 3 11 4 12 13 14 East West 50 ft 15 16 South 65 ft