MONROE COUNTY, GA - Cemteries Lake Juliette Unknown ***************** 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. Abandoned Cemetery 'AI: Location within Plant Scherer Cemetery I: I Original Location: Land Lot 180 [Land District 5], 466 GMD, Monroe County [North of Rum River. Rum River flows through 182 at that point. LL180 is 4 land lots west of Ocmulgee River] Acreage: 0.059 acres Number of Gravesites: 2 Description of Gravesites: These graves are surrounded by a rock wall. Originally unmarked and identified by depressions in the ground, in the new location they have numbered granite markers supplied by GPC. Condemnation Proceedings: Civil Action #8488, Monroe County Superior Court. Judgement signed 10/17/75.Affidavit from (NAMED) and (NAMED)affirming that there had been no burials at this site for many years. In addition, these affiants averred that the names of those buried at this Cemetery are Unknown. Map Reference:N-85-8, M-154-2 Identity of persons buried UNKNOWN unknown ======================= ./b. Abandoned Cemetery 'B': Location within Plant Scherer Cemetery I: See plat. I Original Location: Land Lot 107, [Land District 5] 466 GMD, Monroe County [at end of South Prong branch ---north of Rum Creek which runs through LL104 at this point. LL107 is 6 land lots from Ocmulgee River] Acreage:0.118 acre Number of Gravesites: 6 Description of Gravesites: These graves were unmarked and identified simply by depressions in the ground; they now have numbered granite markers which were provided by GPC. Condemnation Proceedings: civil Action # 8485. Satisfaction of Judgement dated 10/15/75. Affidavits signed by (named) (named) and (named) affirm that there were no burials in this cemetery for many years and the names of the deceased are unknown.Map Reference:N-85-6, M-154- 2Identity of persons buried there: unknown .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.