- Cumming Historic Cemetery Historical
Marker
- Located at the Resthaven St. entrance to the old
cemetery on Ga. 20 (Atlanta Rd.) in Cumming, Ga.
(Text)
- CUMMING HISTORIC CEMETERY
In 1834, Moses Whitsett was the
first person buried on the property which in 1840 became the
cemetery for the Baptist Church and the Presbyterian Church.
In 1856, the Presbyterian Church disbanded. When the Baptist
Church relocated, the cemetery became the property of the City
of Cumming, which is the County Seat of Forsyth. Some of Cumming's
earliest leaders are interred in the municipal cemetery. Included
are William H. Ray, Aulston B. Welborn, H.L. and Almon Hutchins,
E.C. McAfee, Rufus E. Guthrie, George and Thomas Willingham,
Haynie S. Brooks, henry Hurt, A.C. Kennemore, Henry Lowndes Patterson
and Col. Hiram Parks Bell; a lawyer, author, orator, Mason, Civil
War soldier and U.S. Congressman.
- HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF
FORSYTH COUNTY 1957
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