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 Inscription 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 Minnie Davis
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked "J.T.H." on footstones
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Marked lamb sculpture "He died as he lived, trusting in God" John Foster
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Marked "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord" "A.Y." on footstone Agnes Young
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Marked "Teacher- 40 Years" Minnie Davis
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Marked flowers "I was glad when they said unto me, let us go unto the house of the Lord" "wife of Stepney Jones" Florence Jones
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Marked "...les Undertaking Co., Service at low cost, Athens" [??] Foster
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Marked open book "We knew no sorrow-knew no grief-Till thy bright face was missed" "A.E.W." on footstone Anna White
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Marked circle? "Erected in loving memory of mother" "Erected in loving memory of father" July 26, 2017 Georgia Jones John Jones
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked cross
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Marked Strickland[?]
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Marked grape leaves & fruit "The Lord is my shepherd." PS. 23 Emma Foster
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Marked cut trr "In loving memory" "Erected by M.B.M. [Monroe B. Morton]" Elizabeth Morton
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Marked heart daughter "daughter" "At Rest" Maude Morton
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Marked Savannah J[arrell?]
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Marked ivy leaf "Father" "Mother" " C H S - Lyons Family" December 31, 1917 Collins Collins
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Unmarked
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Marked victorian rosettes "HUSBAND" "His many virtues form the noblest monument to his memory" "T.L.C." on footstone Thomas Cotton

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