Miners Cemetery

Location: This cemetery is on the east side of Mirror Lake Parkway, 3/10 of a mile south of Stockmar Road in northwestern Douglas County -- very close to the 19th century gold mines that gave the town of Villa Rica its name.

Lemuel H. (Dodgie) Stockmar
May 5, 1937 - May 18, 1999

Albert H. Stockmar (Dodgie's adoptive father)
US Army, WWI
April 21, 1895 - March 1, 1971

Vera H. Stockmar, w/o Albert Stockmar & Dodgie's adoptive mother
June 19, 1895 - June 18, 1965

J.J. Farr
1818 - August 13, 1894

William B. Farr
30th Georgia Infantry, CSA
No dates on V.A. marker

There is a grave next to William Farr with an uninscribed fieldstone and brick coping enclosing both graves -- probably his wife.

Infant of J.M. and F.L. WIlloughby
June 27, 1902 - July 11, 1902

There are maybe another 8-10 fieldstones and numerous depressions that have no markers at all.

Submitted by Sandy Whittington