Cumming Historic Cemetery – Cumming GA.
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N 34° 12.257 W 084° 08.289
16S E 763691 N 3788510
Cumming Historic Cemetery located on Ga. 20 (Atlanta Rd.) in downtown Cumming, Ga. west of GA 400.
Waymark Code: WM2EZ8
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 10/22/2007
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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. (From the marker placed by the Historical Society Of Forsyth County in 1957.)
There are approximately 1,000 graves in the cemetery.