Southern Graves

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.

Here are the most viewed posts over the last 30 days. - Sam Reed, Mortician & Caretaker of Atlanta's Oakland Cemetery on StoryCorps - Embree Hoss Blackard, United Methodist Clergy (Tombstone Tuesday) - Abraham Lincoln's Bodyguard (Wordless Wednesday) - H. Clay Wilson was a Man of Many Virtues and Few Faults (Tombstone Tuesday) - Rocks, Rocks, and More Rocks - Col. Stephen Lee, Relative of Gen. Robert E. Lee - Southern Cross of Honor - Free Access to Colonial, Revolutionary War & DAR Databases [Note: This post contains information about some available databases, but the free access period has expired.] - Today's Epitaph: Daniel Ogden Lives in Memory Alone

Ms. Amber Leigh left a comment yesterday on the most recent In Case You Missed It post, and I'm highlighting it here so hopefully more readers will see it. "...I'm writing from StoryCorps , America's largest nonprofit national oral history project. I thought you and your readers would be interested in listening to StoryCorps' latest story to broadcast on NPR this morning. Sam Reed, a mortician and the caretaker of Atlanta's historic Oakland Cemetery talks about how his interest in the funeral business started at a young age. You can take a listen here: http://www.storycorps.org/listen/stories/sam-reed . StoryCorps is an independent nonprofit project whose mission is to honor and celebrate one another's lives through listening. Since 2003, tens of thousands of people from across the country have interviewed family and friends through StoryCorps. Each conversation is recorded on a free CD to take home and share and is also archived for generations to com...