Dekalb County GaArchives Photo Tombstone.....Burdett, Benjamin & Mary Southard 
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Meredith Clapper http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00012.html#0002801 August 15, 2005, 8:54 pm

Cemetery:           Hardman Cemetery
Name:               Benjamin & Mary Southard Burdett

Date Of Photograph: March 12, 2003
Photo can be seen at:
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Can't read an inscription anymore, but according to Franklin Garrett's papers 
at the Atlanta History Center "Benjamin Burdett died Apr 16, 1871 aged 70 yrs 
& 11 days" so born April 5, 1801. His wife's grave which here is vandalized 
had "Mary Burdett died 18 Aug 1854" according to Franklin Garrett. According 
to the 1850 DeKalb Co., GA census, she was born c. 1813-1814. 

When I was at the cemetery 12 Aug 2005, I saw that Mary Burdett's grave had 
been repaired. 

Additional Comments:
The Hardman cemetery is now in the middle of Emory University's new Clairmont 
campus and is being kept up. For a long time during the 1970's & 1980's it was 
hidden by the nearby University apartments and heavily vandalized. I hadn't 
realized that the situation had changed and although most of the graves no 
longer have tombstones, they do have white crosses that were recently placed. 

Naman Hardman gave the land for the cemetery to his Primitive Baptist church 
in 1825. Naman isn't buried here, but in Cobb Co. at the Old Pleasant Grove or 
Davis cemetery off Shallowford Rd. 

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/dekalb/photos/tombstones/hardman/burdett7203ph.txt

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