Shady Grove Baptist Church Cemetery

Located at Rock Creek in Chattahoochie National Forest

Established 1855

Fannin County, Georgia

According to Tradition Many Slaves and Free Colored Are Buried Here.

Name

Date of Birth

Date of Death

Notes

Row 1

     

Edmondson, Monroe

 

Age 17

 

Edmondson, Little Joe

April 6, 1884

Feb. --, 1914

 

Hughes, Harvey

Sept. 5, 1887

Feb. 22, 1919

"Died in France in the Service of his Country", " in Grateful Memory of a Brave Soldier Who Gave His Life for His Country"

Hughes, James

Oct. 31, 1852

July 28, 1918

 

Bailes, Teddie

Dec. 26,1915

April 1, 1916

 

Next Ten Graves Marked with Field Stones

     

Row 2

     

Eight Graves

   

Three Marked with Field Stones

Row 3

     

Twenty Four Graves Marked with Field Stones

     

Row 4

     

Hughes, Effie R.

June 12, 18967

June 1, ----

 

Hughes, Jane

1859

April 24, 1937

 

Bailes, H. J.

June 7, 1885

Oct. 3, 1937

 

Tanner, Mary A.

July 5, 1857

Dec. 13, 1901

Wife of W. G. Tanner

Shady Grove Cemetery is in the Chattohoochie National Forest near the fish hatchery. I would suggest that anyone planning to visit this cemetery contact the ranger station for a map or directions.

From "Cemeteries Inscriptions" of Fannin County, GA. by Helen Weaver Casada
Transcribed by Pam Rathbone (July 2007)

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