Garden City Cemetery

The Garden City community began using this burial ground as early as 1886, when a child of county commissioner Sullivan Hill and his wife, Lucy, was buried there. Four years later, a sibling was buried at the same spot, and the two graves share a single stone. The Hill family plot, where Sullivan and Lucy are also buried, is one of many in the cemetery representing early area settlers. Other early family names found throughout the burial ground include Hanson, Gooch, and Cox. Family plots are typically bordered by concrete curbing, and most gravestones are vertical, especially in the older section marked by remaining decorative iron fencing, while some individual family plots also retain original fencing. In 1914, John Etheridge and Perneice Gore Lawler formally designated the original one-acre tract as a cemetery. The county now maintains the burial ground, to which three acres were later added, and it remains the final resting place of many early settlers and their descendants, linking it closely to the community’s history.

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