Logo Dick's Creek Cemetery - February 2022
(aka Dover-Allen, or Allen-Dover Cemetery)
Rabun County, GA
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Copyright (2022)

Jerry Taylor, Towns County historian, handed me some photographs of an old overgrown cemetery off Dick's Creek, just over the Towns-Rabun county line.   Jerry had never heard of this cemetery, but one of the prints had location information, so naturally I had to go look for the site.

The area is somewhat remote, and it took almost an hour to walk in there.   The cemetery is in sad shape, with huge dead trees fallen into the middle of it.   I found about 25 grave markers, but only three of the graves had inscriptions, with two of those being carved by hand.


Chimney
I found this collapsed chimney on my way in...
I've explored the Dick's Creek watershed before, looking for
old homesites, but there are some areas I hadn't gotten to.



Dover_monument
Gravestone of Arvel G. Dover
Aug. 14, 1892 - Nov. 12, 1892



Dover_monument-upper
Upper section of Arvel Dover gravestone.


Dover_monument-lower
Lower portion of Arvel Dover gravestone.
"Sleep on sweet babe and take thy rest,
God called thee home He thought it best."



H_Allen_stone
Henry Allen gravestone


H_Allen_stone-back
Henry Allen gravestone - back
It appears that the inscription was started on this side of the
stone, but they messed it up and turned the stone over.



H_Allen_stone-front
Henry Allen gravestone - front
After starting again on the reverse side, they still made mistakes...



M_Allen_stone
Maudy Allen gravestone


Gravestones
Maudy Allen's and another gravestone.


Gravestone
Unmarked gravestone


Gravestone_between_posts
One of the old photos I had showed this small stone within an area
marked by 4 wooden posts.   Only two of those posts remain.



Gravestone
Unmarked gravestone


Gravestone
Unmarked gravestone


Cemetery_deadfall
Some of the deadfall in the middle of the cemetery.
What a mess!



Gravestone_under_tree
Gravestone under a fallen tree.


Gravestone
Unmarked gravestone


Gravestone
Unmarked gravestone


Gravestones
A pair of unmarked gravestones


Gravestone
Unmarked gravestone


Gravestone
Unmarked gravestone


Gravestone_grave
Stone pillar with a sunken grave


Gravestone
Unmarked gravestone


Gravestone
Unmarked gravestone


Gravestone
Unmarked gravestone


Gravestone
Unmarked gravestone


Gravestone
Unmarked gravestone


Note: In researching this cemetery, I came across evidence of two other burials here:

"William & Jane (Stroud) Garrett moved from NC to Georgia in the early 1840's, settling on Dick's Creek in Rabun County, Georgia near the Union {now Towns} County Line.   They continued to be listed in the Towns County Census through 1880, but chose to return to Rabun County not long before their deaths and are buried in unmarked graves of an unmarked cemetery in the Lake Burton Wildlife Management Area on Dick's Creek."




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