New Hope United Methodist Church Cemetery is located at the intersection of Wylie Circle and New Hope Road.  It is very very well-maintained and is a lovely cemetery.  It has the appearance of being a rather small cemetery, but don't let size fool you.  I was surprised to find that there are between 250 and 270 graves located there.

My visit to the cemetery came shortly after one of Georgia's famed twelve-minute thunderstorms (just kidding about the twelve-minute part), so the sun angles were a bit wierd and many of the stones face northeast, meaning that I was, at times, shooting directly into the Sun.

There are many historically significant family names found in this cemetery.  They include Sewell, Clackum, Gantt, Mayes, Frey and a few others.

I did find several Sewell's and Mayes's buried more or less together and wonder if they may have been moved from Sewell Mayes Cemetery, about four or five miles distant.

Another point of interest involved six stones on graves marked Thomas.  The interesting factoid about these stones was that they provided a genealogy of two or three generations.  Too bad it is not required by law ...

I was also impressed with how few of the stones were unreadable or almost unreadable as a result of age and exposure to weather.

The only donwside to this cemetery is its proximity to several car dealerships on Cobb Parkway.  And that is only because of the constant bombardment of music and the occasional use of the intercom to page someone.