Hancock County GaArchives Cemeteries.....Catholic Cemetery Sparta
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Catholic Cemetery, Sparta, Hancock County, Georgia
hope this helps as this is all the info available and I tried to make it 
as clear as I could, listing what I thought they meant as grave info and
possibly the rest were members of the church.
Janice F. Smith

Top of this page states FRONT GATE
GRAVES LOCATION

An accompanying page is the INDENTURE made Hancock County this the 
eleventh
day of August in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and sixty nine
between Benjamine T. Harris and Augustin Verot, Roman Catholic Bishop of
Savannah and his successors in office. It was for the purpose of locating 
a
Catholic Church on the land hereinafter conveyed.
On the land lying in said county on the south side of village of Sparta 
and
on the East side of the road leading from said village to Milledgeville 
by
way of Fairplay containing one & one fourth acre more or less with shape 
and
boundaries marked by stones set up for the special purpose of defining 
the
boundaries of the said lot. Above paraphrased to get pertinent info
included. JFS. Recorded in clerks office of the Superior Court of Hancock
Co. in Book L page 324 Aug 12 1869, J.B Johnson Clk.

The cemetery/church property was overgrown with large trees (which have 
been cut down about a year ago (2000) and now is covered with brush. The 
land is very rough but some grave markings are visible. The location is 
two (2) blocks S. of Court House on the SE corner formed by Court Street 
and Hancock Street. It is next to the City oxidation pond. There are 
sunken places and few markers with information. This list came from The 
Catholic Diocese, Greensboro, Ga.


Mary Friese (Freze)
Frank Friese
Victor Friese
Jos. Flury, Jr.
Jos. Flury, Sr.
Rebecca Salter Note Linton Stephens Daughters,by (Emaline Bell)
Mrs. Mary W. Stephens (Mrs Linton Stephens)(afterwards Mrs. R.H. Salter
Rebecca C. Stephens Step children
Claude M. Stephens “ “
Emeline Linton Stephens “ “ Miss Emma
Leonora A Stephens
Alexander Stephens
Rose Mary Stephens
Agnes G.? Salter Rebecca’s Children
R.H. Salter Jr. (Rebecca’s Children) a note states (she married her
uncle(Mother’s widowed brother)
John M. Salter “ “ afterwards Father Salter
??(unreadable) Vincial of the Jesuit Southern Province when he died

THIS SECTION MAY BE A LIST OF CHURCH MEMBERS, AND NOT PEOPLE BURIED HERE
Capt John J. Mullaly
J.Lane Mullaly
Mr & Mrs Jas T. Gardinier (a ? after this name)
Barney Gardiner
Jas. T. Gardiner Jr.
Mr & Mrs P.J O’Connor & children
Thomas O’Connor
Mr & Mrs Richard Sharpe
Mr & Mrs Michael Butler
llen Butler
Robert Butler
Michael Butler Jr.
Mr & Mrs Joh Friese
Chars J. Friese
Thos. Friese
Mr. & Mrs Edward A. Friese
Victor H Friese & wife
Mary Friese
Alice Friese
Dorothy Friese
Nell Friese
Frank Friese
Victor Friese Jr.
Mr Joseph Flury SR.
Mr Joseph Flury Jr.
Mr & Mrs C.C. Smith
Mr & Mrs McGregor McCoo
Mrs Hemphill
Sallie Hemphill
Bessie Hemphil


COLORED
Richard Brazille
Richard Brazille Jr.
Emmet? Brazille
Camilla Brazille
Marshall Brazille
Richard L Johnson
Aunt Nancy Scott
Caroline Watkins
John Watkins
Sayre Watkins
Mollie Watkins
Delia Watkins
Marie Watkins
Congo Laughlin &wife Theresa