Chat
|
Daily Search
|
My GenForum
|
Community Standards
|
Terms of Service
|
|
|
Sarah,
According to the Gwinnett County Historical Society database of deaths, there were only four people named Deshong, only two people named Rice, and only one infant named Chandler who were buried in the "Chandler-Rice Cemetery." Now the GHS always provides a source of information for each entry in its deaths database, and of these seven people, only the Chandler infant grave was identified by a tombstone. The Rice graves were furnished by "funeral grave marker" (something like that), and all four Deshong graves by "family information." In other words, a Deshong family member verified that Louis Deshong/Dishong, his wife Elizabeth, their daughter-in-law Manerva, and grandchild "Dickey" were buried in what is now called the Chandler Rice Cemetery. From the looks of it, it was never more than a very small family cemetery.
The GHS book gives the address for the cemetery as what you heard, 5304 Cumberland Drive in Centerville. Well, if you search for Centerville, Georgia, you end up in Houston County. I have a road map though that has a Centerville just east of Stone Mountain Memorial Park, just south of where 124 makes a Y with South Rockbridge Road. Rockbridge Road is also called Centerville Highway, and so Chandler Rice Cemetery has got to be in the vicinity. I believe it is.
There is only one place where a Cumberland is close to Deshong Road, either North or South, and that's where North Deshong Road meets Cumberland Way. If you type 5304 Cumberland Way, Lilburn, Georgia, into Google maps, you'll get there. Then use the Street View feature to see what that area looks like. It's basically homes not too close together, but nothing like a cemetery is there. The same thing happened to me when I went looking for a family cemetery in that same area. Where I live, there are generally just one or two cemeteries for a whole town where everyone is bured; in Georgia, little family cemeteries are scattered everywhere, usually with at least a fence around them. My guess is that your ancestors area buried behind the house at that Cumberland Way address. You could write the GHS to ask about it. Their website is http://www.gwinnetths.org/
Considering that all four Deshong people supposedly buried in the Chandler Rice Cemetery died in the 1840's, it's not surprising that there are no stones there for them. It could be that there were stones, but they're illegible now.
Sue Ellen Fealko
Notify Administrator about this message?
Followups:No followups yet |
| http://genforum.genealogy.com/ga/gwinnett/messages/1015.html | ||
 |
Link to GenForum Add Forum |
|