St. James Episcopal Church Cemetery is located on Polk Street at its intersection with Winn Street.  This cemetery is meticulously kept and very well-maintained.

Some of the most famous families in Cobb County are represented in this cemetery including the Glovers (John Glover was the first mayor of Marietta and his wife would donate the land for the Confederate Cemetery), Lawrences, Sessions', Whitlocks, Hurts and many other first families.

There is a McIntosh from Savannah.  I wonder whether he is descended of General Lachlan McIntosh, for whom McIntosh County is named and who bested Button Gwinnett (a signer of the Declaration of Independence and namesake of Gwinnett County) in a duel in Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia.

You will also find JonBenet Ramsey, the young beauty pageant queen from Boulder Colorado who was found dead in her home on December 25. 1996.  She is buried next to her half sister.

Like many cemeteries, St. James' has its own ghost stories.  It is said that a lady burried under a statue of a lady with one child on each arm, called "Mother Mary", had two children die.  At midnight, if you circle her grave three times, then approach the grave from the front and say, "Mother Mary, how did your children die?", she will show you.  She will start bleeding or tearing up from the eyes.

(c) 2004 Richard R. Pettys, Jr.