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    1. Re: Stone Mountain cemetery
    2. This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Eo.2ADEAE/429.3 Message Board Post: I don't think Stone Mtn Cem. has a sexton. I've never noticed an office of any kind there. In the late 1800's the cemeteries in St. Mtn. were Wade family, Veal family, Vinson family, Dean, Zion Baptist, Howell family, Snead-Smith, Smith-McElroy, Jones-Perkins-Hawkins, Midway Presbyterian and Johnson -Goldsmith --- all of these are on the Tombstone Transcription Project website except Dean which is no longer in existence and Snead-Smith. Stone Mountain's transcription is also at this website. Chris Davis did a great job transcribing that HUGE cemetery. Rock Chapel may refer to the Rock Chapel Cem. in Lithonia. Remember towns around Atlanta kind of merge into one another. I have the transcription for Rock Chapel. That church kept excellent records. Also there was a Mountainview Cemetery which was absorbed by Melwood, now a perpetual care cem. next to Zion Baptist. Remember almost all adult white people buried prior to 1930 within a 25 miles radius of Atlanta were recorded by Franklin Garrett on his necrology. Dekalb's part of that are on the Dekalb History Center website. The other counties are at the state archives and the Atlanta History Center but are not available on line.

    06/12/2006 07:24:29