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Rehoboth Community Cemetery
6 Rehoboth Lane SW
Cave Spring, Ga. 30124
706-777-3313
Located four miles west of Cave Spring, Georgia, on Highway 411, approximately 1 ½ miles from the Alabama line. This cemetery was established in 1886 quite by accident when travelers were camped about ¼ mile south of the cemetery site and one of their children became ill and died. They were camped on the property of Mr. Radford Ellis, Sr. who gave them permission to bury their child in his field. Later, Mr. Ellis donated approximately one acre to be used as a community cemetery.
The first grave in the cemetery, the child of this traveler, whose name has been forgotten, is in # 9-42 on the enclosed plot grid. Across the road from the cemetery stands Rehoboth Baptist Church, which was organized October 15, 1876.
Rows run north to south of the cemetery. Row 1 begins in the northeast corner.
Graves are numbered beginning with #1 on north end of each row. On the index, the row number is the first number and the grave number is the second, ex. 6 – 4 indicated Row 6, grave 4. Entries since 1988 had not yet been assigned numbers. However, the cemetery is still small enough that most graves can be easily located by simply walking through.
Original information was compiled in 1988 by: William J. Barnett of Rome, Ga. and Mary Evelyn Barnett Huckaby of Lindale, Ga.
Through the years members of the church and community have made improvements, which include a paved circular access road, fencing, waste disposal cans, ground-level area markers and lighted crosses and a cemetery sign. Regular maintenance is supported by a church fund. In recent years, Glenn Montgomery and Stan Rogers have overseen cemetery development. In 2001 the Rehoboth Brotherhood appointed a committee to assume responsibility for the cemetery and presented a design for a new section to be opened for expansion of the original site. It features walkways between gravesides so access is available without treading on existing graves. New rules and guidelines for the cemetery are being adopted.
*Important- if you have reserved a site since 1998, please contact someone on the committee to confirm your reservation. The committee is working to insure that its records are up-to-date and accurate.
Update was done in 2001 by: Ruth Langston Terry of Cave Spring, Ga. [jrlt8811@aol.com]
Wayne Baines, donated aerial photographs for this project
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Prepared by: Ruth Langston Terry
Submitted on: 31-Mar-2002
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