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 Statussort descending 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 N Marked Whitman Hill
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery M Marked "Faithful to her trust, Even unto death" LOUISA JACKSON
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Marked Amanda Morton
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Marked "As a husband devoted, as a father affectionate" Simon Pope
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery F Marked "S.L.M." on foot of beadstead Senie Meriweather
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery B Marked Robert Nolan
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery O Marked "A loving and faithful mother" "Come ye blessed" Ella Jefferson
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery B Marked Fletcher Bullock
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Marked "Mother" "Father" "C H S- LYONS FAMILY" December 31, 1893 Collins Collins
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery H Marked palm fronds "An honest man the noblest work of god" Will Brittain
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Marked John Matthews
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery H Marked sweet be thy rest till he bids the arise John Nesbit
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery B Marked Eagle with arrows Ladies Auxiliary VFW marker Ada Thomas
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery Marked Judge Bell
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery S Marked Ossie [Pearl?]
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery Marked R Harris
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery B Marked Robert Jones Effie Jones
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery D Marked Amanda Iverson
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery E Marked "...king Company" Green
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery B Marked Ella Milner
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery S Marked "GEORGIA SGT 50 CO 157 DEPOT BRIG WORLD WAR I" Harry Hardeman
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Marked "Rest in Peace" Monroe Morton
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery H Marked "Sleeping" Robert Grimes
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery O Marked "All is well" Robert Jefferson
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery Marked [Reid?]
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery H Marked "mother thou hast from us flown To the regions far above we to the erect this stone Consecrated by" Mirtie Boyd
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery H Marked [barber] E. Bass
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Marked Margaret Matthews
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery H Marked Ella Nesbit
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery B Marked Baby Ezekiel Stroud
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery S Marked cross "In loving memory..." Dora Johnson
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery O Marked Otis Geter
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery B Marked decorative flower Hattie Lay
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery M Marked Minnie Sims
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Marked Tallulah Morton
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Marked cast rosette "Ivey" Helen Neely
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery B Marked palm fronds "She died as she lved a Christian" Mattie Deadwyler
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery N Marked cross William Mullins
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery B Marked "MARRIED DEC. 2, 1896" "HIS WIFE" "Life's work well done, They rest in peace" August 24, 1935 Eugene Lyles Mattie Lyles
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery H Marked "Another little face before the throne" Charlie Nesbitt
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery H Marked "He was a man among the few sincere on virtues side" Thad Boyd
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery B Marked Annie Terrell
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery E Marked [??] Stryckland
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery D Marked "Gone but not forgotten" Joe Walker
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery Marked "Erected in loving memory by the Hunnicutt Family" Mattie Mason
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery Marked Walter
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery F Marked "MOTHER" on footstone Charlotte Mack
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery B Marked cross Veteran "He died as he lived-trusting in God" Wakefield Brunt
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery Marked "wife of Cornelius Drake" Laura Drake
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery F Marked ivy Julia Clark
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery Marked Cornelius Drake
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery B Marked [J or G?] Blont
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery B Marked McWhorter funeral marker Mary Deadwyler
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery H Marked "At Rest" Bennie Thomas
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery N Marked cross Henry Mullins
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery O Marked "SACRED to the memory of my little namesake- Cora" "Daughter of Thomas and Minta Jackson" Cora Jackson
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery A Marked Charles [Campbell?]
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery Marked "He died as he lived-a Christian!" W. McQueen
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery F Marked "FATHER" on footstone John Mack
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery B Marked "Beloved Mother and Father" Frances Turner Luther Turner
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery B Marked Wakefield G. Brunt, Jr. to Wakefield C. Brunt W. B.
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery N Marked "Thy trials ended, thy rest is won" Genie Tripp
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery F Marked "wife of Eldon Fields" "Having finished life's duty,she now sweetly rests" Susie Fields
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery Marked Marion Harris
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery M Marked angled cross "Erected by Frank B. Drake" Laura McCray
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery F Marked George Martin
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery S Marked Lillie Jones
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery B Marked [Gary?] Blont
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery F Marked Georgie Long
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery A Marked cross veteran "SGT 48 U.S. VOL. INF." John Campbell
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery B Marked "My darling husband" Robert Bunkley
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery Marked Cross veteran "Georgia Pvt SATC MEHARRY Medical College" Alphonso Owens
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery H Marked Rosa Boyd
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery F Marked "His toils are past, His work is done, He faught the fight, the victory won" Eldon Fields
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery F Marked Mary Martin
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery S Marked "AT REST" Lizzie Heard
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery N Marked Emma Virgil
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Marked cut trr "In loving memory" "Erected by M.B.M. [Monroe B. Morton]" Elizabeth Morton
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Marked Minnie Davis
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery B Marked funeral wreath Ellen Winkfield
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery F Marked Susan McIntosh
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery B Marked Charles Shaw
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery A Marked "MOTHER" [Campbell?]
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery H Marked palm fronds "Sweet be thy rest till He bids thee arise" John Nesbitt
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery B Marked cross veteran "GEORGIA PVT 403 LABOR BN" Jesse Owens
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery F Marked "A.T.M." Abram Mack
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery Marked ivy Isabella Owens
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery D Marked mother? December 31, 1917 Susie Horton Emily Horton Mary Horton
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery F Marked Marcellus
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery B Marked "At Rest" William Morton Lizzy Morton
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery O Marked cut tree trunk "Sleep on sweet babe and take thy rest,..." Stella Payne
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery F Marked open book "In Memory of" "She was a faithful friend" Caroline Holt
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery M Marked cross, 2 13-pt stars "W"
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery F Marked William [Tiller?]
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery S Marked cross N. Tuggle
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Marked heart daughter "daughter" "At Rest" Maude Morton
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery O Marked decorative flowers "Gone but not forgotten" Edward Brydie
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery G Marked "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord" "A.Y." on footstone Agnes Young
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery B Marked cross "Georgia-PVT 304 SERV. BN. QMC" Walter Winkfield
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery Marked J W

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