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A short distance east on this road, Fender Cemetery holds many of the first settlers of the part of old Lowndes County lying east of the Alabama River, from Union Church. The cemetery was established there because ferrying the bodies of the dead across the river for burial was inconvenient. Since the grounds were on land owned by David Fender, the cemetery took his family name. The earliest marked grave is that of Josiah Sirmans, one of the organizers of Union Church, who died Jan. 6 1830. Fender Cemetery was first in Lowndes County, then in Clinch County, and is now in Lanier County.
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