Athens - Clarke County, Georgia Cemeteries
By The Athens Historical Society, Inc. Includes large and small cemeteries in the city and county. [Does not include Oconee Hill Cemetery, East Lawn, Hillcrest, Gospel Pilgrim cemeteries or the modern parks of Athens Memorial Garden (west) and Evergreen (east).] Driving directions and annotations are provided in addition to the tombstone inscriptions listed by rows within each cemetery. The book is organized by militia districts and includes maps.

Hardback, 391 pages, fully indexed, $30.
To order contact:
Athens Historical Society, Inc., P.O. Box 7745, Athens, GA 30604-7745
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gaahs/ACCcemeteries.html

Oconee Hill Cemetery of Athens, Georgia, Volume I
By Charlotte Thomas Marshall.

Hardback, xxvi, 620 pages, illustrations, bibliography, index, 2009, $55+ S&H. This is a greatly expanded version of the 1971 publication and covers the same sections of the cemetery as the previous book. Volumes II and III are already in progress. This updated and expanded volume includes information about 3900 burials, including maker's marks from monuments, data from the sexton's Record of Interments (beginning in 1897), abstracts of obituaries, and biographical data. There are also notations linking families from lot to lot and section to section. Information about people buried in unmarked graves is also included as well as a chronology of the cemetery's history.

To order contact:
Athens Historical Society, Inc., P.O. Box 7745, Athens, GA 30604-7745
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gaahs/

The Southern Watchman, Athens, Georgia, Civil War Home Front Coverage, 1861-1865
By Faye Stone Poss. This publication furnishes abstracts and transcriptions from The Southern Watchman newspaper during the Civil War period, including many rosters of various companies in NE Georgia, casualty lists of dead, wounded and missing soldiers, and articles showing how the war affected those people remaining on the home front. There are many obituaries, some marriages, and miscellaneous articles, mostly dealing with living conditions, i.e., shortages of salt, escalated prices of food and other necessities, farm products, etc.

Hardback, 8 ½ x 11", 586 + xiv = 600 pages, $42.00 (price includes postage and/or any applicable taxes)
To order contact Faye Poss through her website http://fayestoneposs.tripod.com/

Cemetery Inscriptions of Oconee County, Georgia Out of Print
A COGS project. This 401 page book includes the records of 8700 burials in 112 cemeteries in Oconee County. Includes a full name index. Published 1994.

Hardback, 401 pages, fully indexed Out of Print Check your library for a copy.

Index of names for Cemetery Inscriptions of Oconee County, Georgia

The Hardegree / Hardigree Family
Compiled and Edited by Nova A. Lemons
The long awaited Hardegree / Hardigree family history book revised and updated is now available. The 726 page hardback book begins with history of the parents of Jonathan, Eleanor, Mary and William Hardegree and carries through the descendants of Jonathan, Eleanor and William down to today's generation. The children of Mary (Hardegree) Holloway are listed briefly. Other chapters feature the possible origins of our surname, the early migrations, the articles on the Cameron, Elder, Fambrough and Grimes family history, and 1790 to 1900 census data. Also included are more phtoographs, maps and a full name index.

This family has early roots in the counties of Clarke and Oconee, arriving in the area before 1800. A limited number of books were printed with no plans for reprints. To avoid missing the chance of owning your own copy, order a copy now!

Each book is $70.00 plus $5.00 for shipping / handling. If ordering more than one book to same address, shipping / handling is $2.50 per additional book. Texas residents, please add tax (8.25%).

To order contact Nova Lemons lemstar@juno.com.