6 thoughts on “Eye on the Cemetery”


  2. Whatever accomplishments he made in life were a mere prelude to the triumph of his interment.

  6. Dr Morgan was buried in the summer of 1826. It is documented he was the second person buried (the first being a child) in the newly opened Decatur cemetery however the land had been used for burials before becoming The Decatur Cemetery in 1826. The current care takers of the cemetery report history dating earlier in the 1800 of some of the first burred before the cemetery became the official Decatur Cemetery, some say as early as the late 1790’s (undocumented)

  8. There will be a dedication ceremony for Dr. Morgan’s grave marker on Sunday, May 10, just before the Second Sunday Stroll (tour), which is scheduled to start at 2:30 pm.

  10. Steve

    Dr Morgan information, “Atlanta and Environs” By Frank Garrett, this is a link if it works …

    https://books.google.com/books?id=UXSjh5f3EUsC&pg=PA66&lpg=PA66&dq=dr+ormond+morgan&source=bl&ots=JD1nWpKSGA&sig=vS3R7-Af2M69_bfxQ9MhahCLR08&hl=en&sa=X&ei=rRkxVdLRCdO0sASDuoGYBA&ved=0CFEQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=dr%20ormond%20morgan&f=false

    We purchased about a year ago plots in the cemetery and spent the day with the caretaker looking at plots and discussing the history of the cemetery written on the historical markers to what he and his fellow caretakers had found (head stones) with dates that precede the 1826 burials. ( I can look up his name as I do not remember it) People were living in the area well before the formation of Dekalb county in 1823, reference Atlanta and Environs to 1818 officially by treaty

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