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    1. [GEORGIA] Blooming Grove Cemetery - Polk County
    2. aka Fullwood Springs Cemetery or Fullwood Cemetery. This cemetery is located south of Cedartown on Johnson Lake Road at Fullwood Springs Road. The oldest marked grave is from the 1870s. When we first visited this cemetery in May of 2003, it was badly overgrown, except for a couple of sections that family or friends were keeping cut. This summer with all the rain and heat made the grass and bushes grow more than usual. By fall the cemetery was in terrible shape. In some places the grass and bushes were over head high. The grass and bushes have been cut and the cemetery is looking better. There are many graves that are not marked, not even with a field stones. The only evidence that there is a grave is the indent in the ground or the fact flowers have been planted in what is probably a family plot. Many of the markers are broken and unreadable. The Polk County Cemetery Preservation Committee is trying to compile a list of burials in this cemetery. If you have information about someone that is buried here, please contact them at PolkCem@zWallet.com or Doris Robbins at Elantr@aol.com The committee would like to restore this old cemetery. Among the burials, you will find these surnames: Ayers, Barry, Cheeks, Cox, Dingler, Duke, Hamrick, Hicks, Hulsey, McKibben, Morgan, Pritchett, Short, Smith, Timms, & Watson. Just to name a few. Anyone with information about the burials at this cemetery is encouraged to contact the committee or me. Thanks for your help. Doris Robbins

    11/16/2003 11:25:28