MONROE COUNTY, GA - Cemetery  Colbert, Henry Larkin

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CEMETERIES AND GRAVES RELOCATED BY GA. POWER CO. FOR LAKE JULIETTE

Reprinted by permission of the Monroe County
Historical Society as listed in their book
‘CEMETERIES IN MONROE CO., GA AND VICINITY, BOOK
NO. 2’. Copyrighted by Monroe County Historical
Society 2005. 


Colbert Cemetery:

Location within Plant Scherer Cemetery I:
See plat.I 
Original Location: Monroe County
Land Lot 168,;[Land District 5] 466 GMD, 
[Rum Creek ran through this Land Lot]

Acreage: 0.188
Number of Gravesites:69

Description of Gravesites: In the survey of the
original site, thirty-four graves were marked by
stones, eleven by rock piles, two by brick slabs,
one by a concrete slab, two by concrete slabs and
a rock, one by a brick slab and a rock, and
sixteen by depression in the ground. 

Two of the graves were surrounded by rock walls.

At the Plant Scherer Cemetery I (Redding Road)
however, the rock piles, the concrete and brick
slabs, and the rock walls were not relocated.
Instead all of the graves are marked by numbered
granite markers supplied by GPC.

Condemnation Proceedings: Civil action # 9313,
Monroe County Superior Court. Judgement dated
3/8/78. A release was signed by Thomas Elvin
Colbert, heir of Henry Larkin Colbert (his great-
grandfather), who was buried in this cemetery. A
permit application was also made to the Monroe
County Commissioners to move these graves.

Map Reference:N-85-22, M-154-2

Identity of persons known to be buried there:
Henry Larkin Colbert




.Numbered granite markers at the head of the
plots so that it would be possible to identify
where each grave had been at its original
location.

Plant Scherer Cemetery I:

This cemetery, which is located on property
formerly owned by the Zellner family,contains
eight smaller cemeteries relocated from the
project site.In most cases the orientation of the
new site is identical to the original.A few of
the cemeteries,however, were reconstructed in a
more orderly fashion than the original site.

Any differences between the original site and the
relocated graves is noted in the following
description of the graves.

The entire relocation tract covers an area of
3.11 acres. There is a chain-link fence
surrounding the entire site and one running
through the middle of the tract separating some
of the cemeteries the following from others.