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Finally Finished Fairview

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Not a great title, I know, but I couldn't resist the alliteration...

I've been giving you snippets for about seven months, and I'm finally ready to share everything in one place. Photos from Fairview Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Lawrenceville, Gwinnett County, Georgia are now all online -- more than 110 of them.

As a reminder, you can view them as a slideshow or individuals, and comments are enabled. Click on the small slideshow below to go to the Picasa Web Album. Enjoy!


Surnames included are the following: Adair, Alexander, Bagby, Brown, Byrd, Carter, Casey, Craig, Crow/e, Dunlap, Gossett, Green, Gresham, Haney, Hood, Huff, Hutchins, Jackson, Kelley, Liddell, McGee, Mitchell, Moss, Noel, Pattersen, Rakestraw, Reid, Roberts, Russell, Simmons, Sparks, Steadman, Strickland, Stuart, Terrell, Thompson, Wight, Williams, and Wilson.
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Dorene from Ohio said…
You did a great job on the slideshow of Fairview!
June 23, 2011 at 2:45 PM
S. Lincecum said…
Thank-you, Dorene!
June 23, 2011 at 6:45 PM
Unknown said…
Thank you for your dedication to preserving the past. I am the Great grandson of the Robert Sidney Adair, buried at Fairview. The graves had been vandalized several years ago and my ancestor's headstone was broken. I repaired it by inserting pins to hold the pieces together and stood it upright. The father of the subject Adair(also named Robert Sidney) was with the Swamp Fox during the revolution and was dismissed in July 1783. He was in a skirmish on the way home to South Carolina and was killed. This was two weeks before the birth of his Son, the subject RSA.
Robert's siblings and he moved to Gwinnett GA but their mother Elizabeth remained in South Carolina. She was of hardy stock.


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