Holsey Memorial Cemetery Number 1

Sparta, Hancock, Georgia, United States

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Cemetery notes and/or description: Location: From Hancock County Courthouse drive 0.7 miles west, following Hwy 22 and Hwy 16 to Ghettis Street. Turn left on Ghettis. Follow Ghettis for 0.3 mile as it crosses the railroad tracks, becomes Construction Line, and finally dead-ends into Central. Turn right on Central. Go about 100 feet and where Central turns left, go straight on a dirt lane (called Ebenezer). Either walk or drive down Ebenezer lane for about 200 feet. The lane encircles the cemetery. This large cemetery is overgrown and covered in briars. It contains many graves marked with small granite blocks or unmarked slabs. There are also many graves with no markings whatsoever. It is difficult to estimate the number of graves, and graves may have been missed because of the overgrowth. In 1868, Bishop George Foster Pierce (1811-1884), an important figure in the history of the Methodist Church in Georgia, granted a license to preach to Lucius Holsey, a former slave who six years earlier had been married by Bishop Pierce at Sunshine. Holsey became a leader in the Colored (now Christian) Methodist Episcopal Church and had a long and distinguished career. This cemetery, as well as the two other Holsey cemeteries in Hancock County, are believed to have been named in Holsey's honor.
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