FOSTER-GRIMSLEY CEMETERY From the intersection of Georgia
highways #150
and # 104 (Pollard's Corner), travel approximately four miles NE on Hwy. #
150. The cemetery is located in the Lake Springs Recreation Area.
FOSTER, Richard No dates
( Co. "B", 1st GA Militia, CSA )
J.H.
8-1-1862 9-21-1898
s/o Richard & S. Foster
("Gone to a Better Home
Where Grief Cannot Come")
Lamar
7-27-1872 1-26-1872 s/o
Richard & S. Foster
("We Will Meet
Again")
GRMSLEY, Susan Elizabeth 10-10-1822 7-2-1845 w/o
Wm. H. Grimsley
( "Sacred To the Memory
Of") (d/o James & Elizabeth Pearre)
William H.
Unmarked h/o
Susan Elizabeth Grimsley
(requested to be buried
beside wife in will probated 10 Oct 1855)
This cemetery is possibly the site of many other unmarked graves. There is a
very old Magnolia tree near the Foster graves and the appearance of three
unmarked graves. A large pile of stones, similar to ones used to form
cemetery walls in this era and vicinity, are present.
James A. Hall, Sr.
10 Nov 2000