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From: "Carolyn Jenkins" <>
Subject: Re: [GADEKALB] Nancy Creek Cemetery
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 17:20:19 -0400


Vivan, you said you would do look-ups in the Nancy Cemetery Report. If you
come across any SITTONS or CHESTNUTS in it please let me know. I'll pay for
copying and postage. Thank you very much, Carolyn
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From: Michael Saffold <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 5:03 PM
Subject: Re: [GADEKALB] Nancy Creek Cemetery


> The report to which Naomi refers is called "Nancy Creek Primitive Baptist
> Church Cemetery" by Joel Dixon Wells and Nancy Jones Cornell, prepared for
> the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, June 1984. It is quite
> well done, and contains a good deal of information on genealogy of
families
> in the area. To my knowledge, it is the only necerology ever done of Nancy
> Creek Primitive Baptist Church cemetery.
>
> MARTA moved a good many graves in preparation for installation of the
train
> tracks. I was fortunate to be present during the move.
>
> The MARTA report is an excellent source for persons researching north
> DeKalb families. Anyone wishing a copy can write to me. It is better than
> one inch thick, but shouldn't cost too much to copy and mail. It has no
> index, but I will attempt to do look-ups as time permits.
> Vivian Price
>
> At 02:05 PM 4/11/00 -0500, you wrote:
> >Kim and others on the list,
> >
> >You may not know that parts of that cemetery were moved to accomadate
> >MARTA, which is Atlanta's rapid transit system. An article appeared in
the
> >Atlanta paper in issue 6 June 1984: " The Nancy Creek Primitive Baptist
> >Church Cemetery survived the Civil War and an invasion of U.S. soldiers
> >during World War I, but part of the old burial grounds will have to be
> >moved to make way for a commuter train."
> >
> >Consultants were hired by the Rapid Transit Authority to try and find out
> >who was buried there and who were their descendants. This had to be done
> >before workers could disturb the first spade of ground. The article goes
> >on to say that of the 775 burial plots , only about 60 graves had to be
> >moved, and of those 60 only 6 had markers. It also said that someone did
> >some very extensive research to find out who was buried in unmarked
graves
> >(those to be moved and those not to be moved). The article also said that
> >this information would be supplied to area libraries and historical
groups.
> >
> >Hope this helps some,
> >Naomi Vickers
>
>
>
>

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