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A gentleman from Newton County has been helping me trace documents for my Zachry ancesters in Newton and Rockdale counties. He mentioned this and sent me a copy of the article. The graves were eventually moved to Buckhead. The land originally belonged to Zaddock Long Zachry, son of Daniel Hay Zachry, and the one-acre cemetery apparently was set aside in his will. This land was never sold to either the builder or the developer, but apparently the 30-year title search showed multiple land exchanges between them. I understand the cemetery appeared on county maps as late as the 1970s.
My ancester is James Benson Zachry, Zaddock's brother, and I cannot locate the grave sites of either James, who died in 1871, or his wife Olive Morton Zachry, who reportedly died in 1876. The chances are very good that they are two of the graves moved, but since these shysters let greed take over common decency, we may never know. My great-grandfather, Charles T. Zachry, handled his father's estate and there are quality gravestones on all the family sites except this one, from much earlier times. The picture the researcher sent me shows a large chunk of gravestone; they are usually cut from granite or marble; I did a marble sculpture in college and I can tell you this stone is extremely hard!
Thought you all would like to know the outcome.
Carolyn Howell Troillett
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