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Page 2, The Journal, Buena Vista, GA, Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Historic Mt. Zion Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery in Marion County is surveyed
In late November 2013, amateur
historian Clarence White, a
Schley County native now
residing in Atlanta, surveyed
the large African-American
cemetery at Mt Zion Primitive
Baptist Church, located off
Highway 26 East at Putnam and
Doyle in Marion County.
The church, according to oral
reports, began during slavery or
Reconstruction under a brush
arbor on land belonging to the
Stevens-Munro clan. Since
the 2013 survey, White – who
was born near the church and
cemetery on Collum Road 68
years ago – has edited and
revised survey data gathered
Mt. Zion Primitive Baptist Church
from headstones, oral accounts
of family members, and physical
searches for lost graves.
The resulting compilation has
been published on two websites
devoted to Marion County
history:
* http://www.thegagenweb.
com/marion/cem/mtzion/Mt%20
Zion%20Primitive.htm
Some of the many graves in the historic cemetery
* http://files.usgwarchives.net/
ga/marion/cemeteries/mtzion.txt
This churchyard cemetery
is estimated to contain around
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500 graves, making it one of the
largest in Marion County, and
has been expanded several times
since the first acre of land was
acquired in 1888 at the rear of
the church building from Miss
Ida Munro.
Mr. White prefaces the survey
data with a historical sketch of
the church and the surrounding
African-American community
that has now largely disappeared.
Prominent surnames on the
cemetery roster include Fudge,
M i n t e r, J a c k s o n , A d a m s ,
Aldridge and Sampson, among
others.
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add to the cemetery survey data,
contact: Clarence White, 678429-9670, [email protected].
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