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From: Doster <>
Subject: Re: [GaClarke] Pauper Cemetery
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 22:13:32 -0400
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I don't know if you are referring to a section of Oconee Hill Cemetery that was
set aside for the poor, or if you mean the cemetery behind the old "County Farm"
on the Lexington Road where the Athens/Clarke County police station and jail are
presently located. The County Farm was home to older indigents who could not
provide for themselves. The county convict camp also was located there. Ben Epps,
Jr. told me that when his father and others started the airport, the cemetery for
the County Farm was located in a small patch of trees on the edge of the site.
Deceased convicts from the camp also may have been buried there. The graves were
marked with field stones or were discernible as sunken places. According to Ben,
there were no tombstones. Sometime in the 1920s the trees were removed and a
hanger was erected on the site of the cemetery. Ben said that he did not know if
the graves were relocated or if hanger was just built over them. Gary Doster

wrote:

> Could someone tell me more about the pauper cemetery in Clarke Co.?
>
> wrote:
>
> "It has been reported that bones unearthed during the construction of Baldwin
> Hall
> were moved to the Clarke County Pauper Cemetery in the 1930s and reburied in a
> trench grave. Over the years as grave markers were broken, they were removed
> from
> the cemetery and thus lost." (From Athens-Clarke County Georgia Cemeteries)
>
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