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Dick's Creek Cemetery - February 2022 (aka Dover-Allen, or Allen-Dover Cemetery) Rabun County, GA |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2022) |
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Dick's Creek Cemetery - February 2022 (aka Dover-Allen, or Allen-Dover Cemetery) Rabun County, GA |
All Text & Images: 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. |
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| I found this collapsed chimney on my way in. (RA07) I've explored the Dick's Creek watershed before, looking for old homesites, but there are some areas I hadn't gotten to. |
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| Another view, from a December 2024 revisit... |
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| Gravestone of Arvel G. Dover Aug. 14, 1892 - Nov. 12, 1892 This is the only "comercially / professionally made" gravestone in the cemetery |
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| Upper section of Arvel Dover gravestone. |
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| Lower portion of Arvel Dover gravestone. "Sleep on sweet babe and take thy rest, God called thee home He thought it best." |
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| When I revisited the cemetery in December 2024, I saw that someone had set this stone back in its upright position. |
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| Henry Allen gravestone |
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| 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. |
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| Henry Allen gravestone - front After starting again on the reverse side, they still made mistakes... |
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| Maudy Allen gravestone |
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| On my December 2024 revisit, I noticed (at bottom of stone) the hand with a finger pointing to heaven. It had been hidden by moss previously. |
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| I had also missed taking a photo of the rear of her gravestone on my original visit. |
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| Maudy Allen's and another gravestone. |
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| Surprisingly, I found another stone that I had missed before. It was lying in the leaves, and on one side had a cross similar to the one on Maudy's stone. The other side is unmarked. |
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| Unmarked gravestone |
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| One of the old photos I had showed this small stone within an area enclosed by four wooden posts. Only two of those posts remain. |
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| Unmarked gravestone |
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| Unmarked gravestone |
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| Some of the deadfall in the middle of the cemetery. What a mess! |
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| Gravestone under a fallen tree. |
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| Unmarked gravestone |
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| Unmarked gravestone |
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| A pair of unmarked gravestones |
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| Unmarked gravestone |
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| Unmarked gravestone |
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| Stone pillar with a sunken grave |
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| Unmarked gravestone |
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| Unmarked gravestone |
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| Unmarked gravestone |
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| Unmarked gravestone |
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| Unmarked gravestone |
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| I had a feeling that there might have been an old home place near the cemetery, and sure enough, I found the remains of a chimney. |
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| Collapsed chimney (RA08) |
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| 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." |