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The McLarty Cemetery is in the Dark Corner area of Douglas County -- on Brittain Road about 475 feet north of its intersection with Cedar Mountain Road. Heading north it is on the left side of the road, some 460 feet up the hill. There are approximately 300 graves in this cemetery, the vast majority of them marked with fieldstones only. There is also one area that an experienced archaelogist believes to be a mass grave, which corresponds to stories about a group of children being buried together during an epidemic of some sort. It is in the older black section of the cemetery -- could it be related to the typhoid epidemic in the summer of 1897? The first burials are dated 1842, and the cemetery continued in active use (at least in the black part) until the 1940s. If anyone can identify any other burials in the cemetery the trustees would appreciate it very much. There is currently one large marker in the geographic center of the cemetery that reads, "FOR THOSE WHO REST HERE KNOWN BUT TO GOD." If you need further information or are interested in being on the mailing list for the annual clean-up effort, contact Sandy Whittington at Reb1861@aol.com.
The McLarty family section contains approx. 50-60 graves. Some have only fieldstone markers, but the inscribed markers are as follows: P.V. Enterkin (nee Polly Virginia McLarty) w/o David Fletcher Enterkin) December 19, 1838 December 15, 1912 John McLarty Senior December 25, 1775 January 21, 1853 Mary McLarty (nee Mary Wilson) w/o John McLarty Senior March 15, 1776 February 3, 1866 S.K. Enterkin (Samuel Kanada Enterkin) August 13, 1825 April 13, 1888 J.C. Morris (James Columbus Morris, Co. C, 30th GA Infantry) September 8, 1834 June 19, 1903 S.E. Morris (nee Sarah E. Polk) w/o J.C. Morris April 16, 1843 October 22, 1909 E.V. Enterkin (nee Esther Virginia McLarty) w/o S.K. Enterkin May 9, 1830 July 26, 1906 Charles Thomas Polk November 23, 1860 August 12, 1916 M.A. Polk (nee Margaret Ann Freeman) w/o C.T. Polk March 17, 1855 March 18, 1907 Trannie C. Polk d/o C.T. and M.A. Polk) January 16, 1884 May 15, 1905 J.E. Polk (James E. Polk) December 9, 1845 November 7, 1888 Cathrine Polk (nee Cathrine McLarty) w/o C.S. Polk January 16, 1821 March 26, 1907 Mattie J. Polk d/o C.T. and M.A. Polk February 12, 1882 September 4,1884 C.S. Polk (Charles Shelby Polk) May 29, 1814 July 10, 1879 S.W. McLarty (Samuel Wilson McLarty) August 28, 1799 July 11, 1863 Mary McLarty (nee Mary "Polly" Polk) first w/o S.W. McLarty August 13, 1810 May 21, 1848 Mary McLarty d/o John and Martha McLarty January 20, 1832 November 12, 1842 (Note: She died at age 10 just one day after her mother died -- probably an infectious disease of some sort.) Martha McLarty (nee (Martha White) first w/o John McLarty Junior November 11, 1801 November 11, 1842 John McLarty Junior March 7, 1802 March 14, 1856 Sarah E. McLarty (Mrs. Sarah Eleanor {McLarty} Anderson) second w/o John McLarty Junior July 27, 1814 March 4, 1881 J.W. Anderson (James W. Anderson, Co. C, 30th GA Infantry) June 14, 1838 June 28, 1881 Martha E. Anderson Dorris (nee Martha Benson) married first to J.W. Anderson, then to James Dorris) January 7, 1849 February 2 1926 Harriet C. Benson (nee Harriet Caroline McLarty) w/o James LaFayette Benson January 31, 1826 April 7, 1896 James LaFayette Benson April 15, 1822 May 9, 1902 (Charter member of Ephesus Baptist Church in 1874) Charles O. Enterkin April 24, 1864 April 2, 1906 Posey Newton Brown (h/o Mary C. McLarty Brown) June 13, 1849 July 17, 1896 Mary C. McLarty Brown (w/o Posey Newton Brown) Oct. 31, 1846 Apri. 30, 1885 Mark McElreath Born 1811 February 21, 1858 Jane McElreath (nee Jane McLarty) w/o Mark McElreath June 1, 1823 Mary 22, 1878 C.S. McElreath (Carson S. McElreath, Co. A, 56th GA Infantry) s/o Mark and Jane McElreath March 27, 1842 November 13, 1881 Martha McElreath (nee Martha VanSant) w/o Carson McElreath Born 1845 Death date unknown Our Baby (child of Carson and Martha McElreath) No further information. In addition to the actual burials, there are eleven memorial markers for the grandsons of John and Mary McLarty who died in the War Between the States and are in unknown graves all over the South: Lt. Alexander W. McLarty, 31st Mississippi (killed at Franklin, TN) Corp. James K. Polk McLarty, 29th Mississippi (killed at Murfreesboro, TN) Pvt. William L. McLarty. 4th Mississippi Pvt. Wilson Lafayette McLarty, 4th Mississippi Sgt. Samuel Manon McLarty, 30th Georgia Pvt. William Wallace McLarty, 41st Georgia (killed at Perryville, KY) Pvt. William Alexander McLarty, 56th Georgia Pvt. George W. Hartsfield, 56th Georgia Pvt. Archibald DeKalb McLarty, 56th Georgia Pvt. Joseph R. Farmer, 30th Georgia Pvt. Mangum Calhoun Maxwell, 41st Georgia (died in hospital, Oxford, MS) That wraps up the McLarty Family part of the Cemetery. There are many black graves, but sadly most of them have only fieldstone markers. These graves are in two separate black sections that are on either side of the white section of the cemetery. Old Black Section (ca. 1862 - ca. 1920) Sally Polk Died 1862 (crudely inscribed fieldstone)
Peter James Carnes Born and died Nov. 17, 1882
Walter Scales Born April 3, 1890 Died June 22, 1891
W.H. Scales Born Sept. 26, 1891 Died Dec. 27, 1896
Clark McCLarty Birth Unknown Died June 23, 1906 (actually he was born ca. 1830, for he was 70 in the 1900 census)
F.H. Died Aug. 10, 1912
Peter Carnes (h/o Sophia Carnes) Died Aug. 30, 1920 Aged 87 years
Sophia Carnes(w/o Peter Carnes) no dates inscribed Note: Peter and Sophia share a large double marker.
New Black Section (ca. 1912 - ca. 1945)
Nrcy McLarin 1858 -1912 Thad Hollomon (s/o Fannie Hawkins Hollomon) Born Aug. 4, 1893 Died Jan. 1, 1919 Co. B 516 Eng. Stev. Bn. (This marker is especially fine, with a U.S. flag cut into it. Family members tell us that Thad served in France in WWI and died aboard ship on the way home after the war. May have been a result of mustard gas.)
Fannie Hawkins Holloman (m/o Thad Holloman) Apr. 24, 1879 Nov. 3, 1945 Sellers Brothers Mortuary
William Harris Hawkins Nov. 26, 1889 Mar. 7, 1923 (also has a US government marker as a WWI veteran)
W.M. Sutton Born June 17, 1903 Died Oct. 18, 1925 Daughter of Mrs. Studders (crudely inscribed fieldstone)
M.C. Connell Mar. 8, 1926
Mrs. C. Shelton Died Jan. (rest of date illegible)
Mrs. Margie Taylor Hart May 17, 1910 Jan. 20, 1944 Age 33 Sellers Brothers Mortuary
George W. Hawkins May 27, 1871 Aug. 20, 1944
Amanda L. Hawkins Jan. 12, 1888 No death date inscribed Note: George and Amanda share a double marker) |
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