Dabney Shumate Family Cemetery Inscriptions DeKalb County, GA

DABNEY - SHUMATE FAMILY CEMETERY

This cemetery is located on Cooledge Ave in Dekalb County GA.  It is 
in between 1714 Cooledge Ave and the Sunnyland Day Care Center. To get 
to the cemetery you must park at the day care and walk into the small 
lot between the day care and the house at 1714. Only two of the markers
are still standing.


         SHUMATE
Eliza                 Benjamin F
July 29, 1815   Nov 16, 1809
Jan 1889          March 1886

(Rough marker with inscription done by hand)
To The 
Memory  Of
John W SHUMATE
Born May The
29th 1850 (or 60) and
Died April
The 20th 1885 (or 95)
(difficult to read )

(large marker flat on ground - inscription that is a Bible quote 
is face up - I think the name is face down - probably Elizabeth Dabney 
which is the only marker mentioned in Franklin Garrett’s 1931 
transcription I did not find)

(large above ground box tomb, partially collapsed)
Garland DABNEY
Dec 23, 1771
May 15, 1851

(lying flat)
Mary DABNEY
Nov 16, 1779
July 14, 1831

(lying flat)
William T DABNEY
April 25, 1807
June 9, 1853

transcribed by Dave &
Mary West     May 1999

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