MONROE COUNTY, GA - ***************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm *********************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00013.html#0003232 E. Robertson from Buddy Mitchell 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. Precinct Cemetery: Anderson Redding (only identified grave) {Note: Anderson Redding , Rev. War Sol., b. 1764, VA, d. 1843 in Monroe Co., GA and buried in Salem Church Cemetery. Not sure how they relate] Location within Plant Scherer Cemetery I: See plat. I Original Location: Land Lot 151,[Land District 5] 466 GMD, Monroe County [2 land lots North of Rum Creek - 5 land lots east of Ocmulgee River] Acreage: 0.705 acre Number of Gravesites: 148 Description of Gravesites: Seventy-nine of the graves were marked by rocks. At the original site they were oriented in a random fashion. As relocated, however, they are arranged in orderly rows with numbered granite markers. The rock markers were not relocated. Condemnation Proceedings: Civil Action #8634, Monroe County Superior Court. A release dated March 4, 1976 was obtained from Sarah Jane Clark, heir of Anderson Redding, her grandfather_ who was buried there. There was also an affidavit from'R.L. Watkins stating that no one had been buried there for 50 years. A permit for removal of the graves was granted by the Monroe County Commission on March 16, 1976. Map Reference:N-85-12, M-154-2 Identity of persons known to be buried there: Anderson Redding NOTE: To: REDDING-L@rootsweb.com Subject: REDDING, Anderson, Rev. War Sol., - GA Is anyone out there researching Anderson REDDING, Rev. War Sol., of Monroe Co., GA? Will be glad to share what info. regarding him and incl. related families. NOTE: Land Lottery 1821 Bond, Joseph B. living in Hall Co -Brooks Militia Dist drew LL 151 in the 5th Land District - Monroe. http://www.rootsweb.com/~gamonroe/1821-LOTTERY.htm .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.