Nesbit Family Cemetery Inscriptions DeKalb County, GA

NESBIT FAMILY CEMETERY
DEKALB CO. GA


This cemetery is half in DeKalb County and half in Gwinnett. The county 
line runs diagonally through it.  It sits next to the Georgia Power office 
off Lawrenceville Hwy near the intersection of that road with Jimmy Carter 
Blvd.

It is well maintained and surrounded by a wrought iron fence. Most of the 
graves are box tombs with only one grave really damaged. There is a 
placque in front with the following inscription:
              NESBIT
William Nesbit 1789 - 1863
Veteran of War of 1812

Widened an Indian trail in 1813, then supervised the building of a 
military road from Fort Daniel to a shallow ford on the Chattahoochee 
River. This is now Peachtree Road.

About 1815, meeting at the Wynn House at Hog Mountain, hi and others began 
the creation of Gwinnett County and was appointed first sheriff and was 
elected the second and fourth terms as state legislator, he represented 
Gwinnett County, at Milledgeville, from 1829 to 1837. On this site was 
located his plantation of 650 acres.

Transcription begins with row of graves closest to the parking lot moving 
left to right.

ROW A:

(box tomb)
In Memory of
Wm J NESBIT
Aged
42 years

ROW B:

(ledger style)				(ledger style)
Infant of				Mary Prince NESBIT
Mr & Mrs W T NESBIT			Mar 25, 1849
					Apr 11, 1913

(box tomb)				(box tomb -- cracked)
Sacred					Sacred
To the memory of			To the memory of
M K NESBIT				Joseph N NESBIT
Born Dec 24, 1824			Departed this life
Died Sept 9, 1904			April 11, 1861
Aged 79 Yrs 8 mos 15 dys		Aged ___ 11 mos & (crack runs 
					through it)

(box tomb)					
Sacred
To the memory of
Charlton H NESBIT
Who departed this life
March the 6th A D 1860
Aged 30 Years 5 Months
And 6 Days

(tall column with writing on all four sides)
side one:				side two:

Mary NESBIT				This monument
Infant Daughter 			is dedicated to
of					the purest
D M & P					affection for a 
CRAIG					Wife and Two
born					Children
December 8th				by the
1853					Husband and
died					Father
June 16th
1858

side three:				side four:

James Adair				Mrs Marriz__e CRAIG
Infant son				Born
of					March 21th 1825
D M & P					Died
CRAIG					March 11th 1860
born					(long inscription, small print)
March 6th 1851
died
August 17th
1859

ROW C:

Our Mother				(broken)
Rebecca J				In Memory of
Wife of					A C NESBIT
A C NESBIT				Born
Born June 24, 1830			March 5th 1823
Died July 16, 1903			Died March 13th 1885
You are not dead to us
But as a bright star unseen
We hold that you are near
Though death intrudes between

(box tomb)				(box tomb)
In					Sacred
Memory of				To the memory of
Walter J NESBIT				Craig NESBIT
Who departed this life			Aged 5 years 7 months 16 days
August 9th 1864 aged
8 years

(box tomb)				(box tomb - cracked)
Sacred					Wm ___ NESBIT
To the memory of			Born
Mary NESBIT				Jan'y 1789
Who was born in Virginia Nov 27th 1789	Died
And departed this life January 3rd 1849	June 27th 1863

ROW D:

(wounded dove on top)			(broken rough headstone - no name
Nellie C				lying against a tree)
Dau of	
E A & C C NESBIT
Born Apr 1, 1893
Died Oct 21, 1895

Lulu Luckie
NESBIT
Wife of 
Robt P
Nesbit
Oct 12, 1858
Jan 25, 1925
She was the sun-
shine of our home

transcribed by Mary West August 1999

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