A reader let us know about two trees at the Mt. Bethel church cemetery that were uprooted during the Zeta storm Thursday, and damaged some graves there.
We took a look on Friday, and it was a stunning sight—a massive tree was pulled out of the ground, toppled over and struck a number of markers. A smaller tree also caused extensive damage.
The cemetery is located on Johnson Ferry Road, just above Lower Roswell Road, and between a Zaxby’s and the Northside medical building.
That’s near where the second location of the church, which dates back to the 1830s, once stood. The cemetery along Johnson Ferry opened in 1870, when the church moved to two acres donated by a nearby farmer.
The original cemetery still exists at the original church site on Richmond Hill Road, off Lower Roswell Road and east of Johnson Ferry, going back to the 1840s.
Some of the markers damaged at the Johnson Ferry cemetery are so old that there’s nothing legible on them. Family names we could make out include Bloodworth, Darnell and Tillerson.
Both Mt. Bethel cemeteries are listed in a catalog of more than 200 historical cemeteries by the Cobb Genealogical Society.
We’re contacting the Cobb Cemetery Preservation Commission about the storm damage.
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