“Your Not Even Safe After Death”

 

“Your Not Even Safe After Death”

In Henry County, it has always been a problem about the desecration of the old family cemeteries of the people who came here and forged a community out of the wilds of Old Georgia that had its early inhabitants of the native Americans who we bought land from to expand the growth of the European people moving westward.  On part of this land in Henry, was the White and Foster families.  They forged farms and crops to create a life for themselves.   Fast forward to the 21st Century and a developer decided to build a subdivision on the land owned by the Whites and Fosters.  They knew of the cemetery close to the old Dutchtown Rd and they removed 35 graves from that site to the Hasiten Cemetery on McGarity Rd.  It wasn’t right to move those graves then just so people could play golf.  No one really knew how many family members or even possibly their slaves were buried on this property. That was in 2004.  Let’s move forward to 2025 and a nice couple bought a lot in the subdivision to build their dream home.  Low and behold they found a cemetery on the land.  A study was done and it appears there are at least 16 more graves located here.  Now this brings to mind how many homes at the end of the cul-de-sac are built over graves that were not located.  Again they are going to move these new graves to the cemetery on McGarity Rd with the others already moved there.  It is sad that people cannot even rest after death; they have to be moved to accommodate greed and the lust for money.  They made a movie 40 years ago named “Poltergeist” about a subdivision built over a cemetery.  Instead of moving the graves they just moved the headstones.  And the departed became unhappy with homes built over them.  Henry County values for the dead are pitiful.  They allowed a church to build over a slave cemetery about 17 years ago in the Stockbridge area and many wondered how that would play out.  It is shameful how the resting places of those who came before us are treated in Henry County.  It makes one wonder how those who let these things happen for a dollar can afford to sleep at night and how will they answer for this on judgment day.

The Staff.