Fender Cemetery-GHM 086-3-Lanier Co
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Sprinterman
N 31° 02.863 W 083° 02.137
17R E 305745 N 3436670
Junction of US 221 and Ga 37 east of Lakeland
Waymark Code: WMC058
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 07/10/2011
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A short distance east on this road is Fender Cemetery, in which are buried many of the first settlers of the area of old Lowndes County lying East of the Alabama River, from Union church. This location for the Cemetery was chosen because of the inconvenience of ferrying the bodies of the dead across the river for burial. As the grounds were on lands of David Fender, the cemetery was given his family name. The earliest marked grave is that of Josiah Sirmans, one of the organizers of Union Church, who died Jan. 6 1830. Fender Cemetery was first in Lowndes, then Clinch, and is now in Lanier County.
GHM 086-3 Georgia Historical Commission 1958
Type of Marker: Highway
Marker #: 086-3
Date: 1958
Sponsor: Georgia Historical Commission
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