Graves

In the early 2000s, members of the University of Georgia's Horticulture Department completed an innovatory of burial locations in Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery. In addition to noting the location of marked and unmarked graves, the data records tombstone inscriptions: decedents' names, date of births, date of deaths, epithets, and iconography.

Cemetery Section Grave Status Grave Symbol Society Marker Inscriptionsort ascending Tombstone DOD First Name Last Name Second Grave First Name Second Grave Last Name Third Grave First Name Third Grave Last Name
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Marked "Asleep in Jesus" "T.J." on footstone Tena Jones
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery B Marked "Asleep in Jesus" Rhoda Johnson
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Marked "As a husband devoted, as a father affectionate" Simon Pope
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery H Marked "Another little face before the throne" Charlie Nesbitt
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery H Marked palm fronds "An honest man the noblest work of god" Will Brittain
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery O Marked "All is well" Robert Jefferson
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery F Marked "A.T.M." Abram Mack
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Marked "A.M.H.S." on -large big pot Anna Sheppard
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery O Marked "A loving and faithful mother" "Come ye blessed" Ella Jefferson
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery H Marked ivy "a little time on earth she spent till god for her his angel sent. ercted by her sister lucy miller" Sarah McCombs
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery F Marked "A light from our household is gone, a voice we loved is stilled" "S.J." at footstone Sallie Jones
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery E Marked "A Dedicated Teacher" Annie Derricotte
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery M Marked "71" Laura Houston
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery B Marked lamb "6 yrs, 4 mon, 14 days" Ollie Scruggs
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery F Marked 3 linked chain links Oddfellows "46yrs, 7mons, 11 days" "Blessed is the sleep that wakes in eternal joy" Mentie Adams
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Marked "...les Undertaking Co., Service at low cost, Athens" [??] Foster
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery E Marked "...king Company" Green
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery D Marked "High Class Service at Low Cost. Athens, Ga." John Cleveland
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery M Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery H Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery B Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery H Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery M Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery D Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery F Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery A Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery H Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery E Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery H Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery N Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery F Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery D Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery O Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery F Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery B Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery F Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery B Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery B Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery M Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery D Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery F Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery O Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery H Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery E Marked [Sam?] [Barker?]
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery D Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery N Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery H Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery F Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery O Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery F Marked S G
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery L Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery S Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery E Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery H Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery B Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery E Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery L Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery D Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery F Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery D Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery H Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery N Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery E Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery H Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery S Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery F Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery D Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery F Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery B Marked Sweetie Jackson
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery F Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery H Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery B Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery M Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked cross
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery F Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery O Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery D Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery H Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery E Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery K Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery N Marked Vinnie Jones
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery H Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery F Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery D Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery Unmarked

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