COBB COUNTY, GA - CEMETERY Concord Baptist Church Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: "Leah" Table of Contents page: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/cobb.htm Georgia Table of Contents: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm CONCORD BAPTIST CHURCH CEMETERY Fowler Road Mableton, Cobb County, Georgia Floyd Station Community Directions: From SW Concord Road, turn north on South Hurt Road. Fowler Road will be the first road on the right. Cemetery is all the way down the road to the dead end. The Church is at the corner of Concord and Floyd Roads. Established in 1832, Concord Baptist is one of Cobb County's oldest churches. Disgust was my impression from this visit to the cemetery. It has been completely vandalized. Most of the markers are gone. The remaining markers that were either too big or too heavy to carry are knocked off their bases. I called the Cobb Historic Preservation office and Mike Fortenberry told me that the County first installed an expensive iron fence. He said someone had stolen it by hooking a chain to it and pulling it up. Since then the County has installed a chain link fence which now has a big hole cut in it. Mr. Fortenberry said the local youths who party in the cemetery are the culprits and that the County Parks and Recreation Department have the missing markers in storage. This survey is supplemented by the Cobb County Cemeteries book. The markers that still remain in the cemetery are denoted with an asterisk (*). GANN, John (*) 1812 Aug 1881 Son of Nathan Gann GANN, Mary Ann Allen 04 Feb 1814 08 May 1856 Second w/o John Gann GANN, Nancy O. Reed 23 Feb 1824 15 May 1908 Third w/o John Gann; d/o Daniel Reed (1835 birth year on stone in error) GANN, Alice June 1861 28 Sep 1906 d/o John & Nancy Gann Double Stone: GANN, Francis F. (*) 10 Aug 1834 18 Nov 1917 s/o John Gann - Father GANN, Louise Wade (*) 04 Feb 1837 02 Sep 1914 d/o Harris Wade - Mother GANN, Mary Elizabeth 15 Dec 1855 d/o F.F. & L. Gann - Aged 8 months GANN, Edmond 13 Feb 1825 11 Apr 1867 GANN, Francis 11 Jan 1820 24 Mar 1909 Mother - w/o Edmond Gann BURDINE, Amanda M. 13 Nov 1830 13 Jul 1879 Unmarried; d/o Samuel Burdine HILL, T.J.D. 01 May 1861 01 Sep 1861 DOB could be 07 May 1861 MOSS, James C. 12 Jun 1837 13 Apr 1860 Masonic (Springville #153 Powder Springs) s/o Alfred Moss MOSS, Cenith L. 17 Nov 1869 20 Apr 1884 d/o James C. & Harriett N. Burdine Moss MOSS, Ida Cornelia 08 Mar 1868 23 Dec 1868 ALLEN Base of marker only MOSS, Homer A. (*) 18 Mar 1872 04 Apr 1907 s/o James C. Moss GLORE, Martha A. (*) 21 Feb 1862 24 Aug 1900 Mother; d/o James C. Moss; w/o Thomas A. Glore MOSS, Clarence E. (*) 06 Apr 1879 04 May 1915 Masonic (Latham #12 Austell) s/o James C. Moss SCROGGINS, George 02 May 1836 24 May 1876 Father; s/o of James F. Scroggins SCROGGINS, Luther E. 02 Jun 1870 20 Mar 1877 s/o George C. Scroggins & Nancy Jane Pace FLOYD, A. T. Base only & footstone A.T.F. FLOYD, Sarah E. (*) 29 Oct 1837 03 Nov 1910 Mother THOMAS, Henry A. 04 Jul 1880 09 Feb 1885 s/o M/M J.A. Thomas THOMAS, Robert A. 18 Mar 1891 04 Sep 1893 s/o M/M J.A. Thomas PENDLEY, L.J. Mrs. 10 Aug 1850 14 Nov 1873 Daughter, Wife, Mother and Sister PENDLEY PENDLEY Grandmother Aged 80 years BROUGHTON, Mattie 05 Jun 1858 19 Dec 1907 w/o Sam L. Broughton (black) NOTES: Just a few hundred feet from Concord Church is Floyd Station that was built in 1905. Floyd Station was a watering stop during the days of steam locomotives, then a general store and now a bicycle shop for folks who want to ride on the Silver Comet Trail. The Seaboard Coastline tracks ran alongside the station, shuttling people between Atlanta and Birmingham. The tracks have been replaced with a cement ribbon for recreation. As late as the 1970's, across from the Church stood a one-room schoolhouse where a landscaping nursery is now. The children who graduated from "Floyd College" are long gone. There are several historical locations within a few miles of Concord Church: Concord Covered Bridge, the Gann House, the Mable House and others. Unfortunately, these same youths who destroyed the cemetery will undoubtedly ruin the entire historical area.