Gresham and Weed hosts a number of Tucker Founding Families including the Baxter, Mitchell, Britt, and Nash fami- lies. There are a few newly established gravesites as Tucker Founding Family members continue to be buried here. Location: Gresham and Weed Cemetery is at 3700 Cham- blee Tucker Road, across the street from the Embry Hills Public Library. There is a large stone marker out front. There is a one-lane, easy access circle driveway with a few places at the top of the hill to pull over to get out and ex- plore the grounds. The gravesites closest to Chamblee-Tucker Road have some of the oldest plots, including gated areas and stone-walled tombstones. Members of the Cofer family are buried here. Location: 4278 Chamblee-Tucker Road, after the Chamblee -Tucker turn towards Evans Rd. The church and cemetery are only a few hundred yards past the CVS on the right be- hind the Pizza Hut. 11. Pleasant Hill Baptist Church Cemetery Two informative books to reference while touring these cemeteries are: “A History of Tucker – 1821-1942” by Elias W. (Tim) Timmons and “Cemetery Records of Tucker, Georgia and Environs” by Ted O. Brooke. Thank you Mr. Timmons and Mr. Brooke for your help- ful research. 10. Gresham and Weed Cemetery This brochure was sponsored by Tucker, GA Tucker, GA Self-Guided Cemetery Tour Founding Families of
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Gresham and Weed hosts a number of Tucker Founding Families including the Baxter, Mitchell, Britt, and Nash fami-lies. There are a few newly established gravesites as Tucker Founding Family members continue to be buried here.
Location: Gresham and Weed Cemetery is at 3700 Cham-blee Tucker Road, across the street from the Embry Hills Public Library. There is a large stone marker out front. There is a one-lane, easy access circle driveway with a few places at the top of the hill to pull over to get out and ex-plore the grounds.
The gravesites closest to Chamblee-Tucker Road have some of the oldest plots, including gated areas and stone-walled tombstones. Members of the Cofer family are buried here.
Location: 4278 Chamblee-Tucker Road, after the Chamblee-Tucker turn towards Evans Rd. The church and cemetery are only a few hundred yards past the CVS on the right be-hind the Pizza Hut.
11. Pleasant Hill Baptist Church Cemetery
Two informative books to reference while touring these cemeteries are:
“A History of Tucker – 1821-1942” by Elias W. (Tim) Timmons
and “Cemetery Records of Tucker, Georgia and Environs”
by Ted O. Brooke.
Thank you Mr. Timmons and Mr. Brooke for your help-ful research.
10. Gresham and Weed Cemetery
This brochure was sponsored by
Tucker, GATucker, GA Self-Guided
Cemetery Tour
Founding Families of
Did you know some of Tucker’s founding families were an integral part of the Battle of Atlanta during the Civil War? Thousands of Sherman’s troops and cavalry stayed in Tuck-er at Greenville Henderson’s Mill and marched down the same streets we drive today.
Learn about the brave pioneers who established Tucker in the early 1800s. They settled their families here, built our roads, churches, schools, and buried their relatives in small grave plots all over Tucker.
This guide will take you from one corner of Tucker to anoth-er; some large church cemeteries with many founding families in well-marked graves, to other more tucked away private family gravesites.
Descendants of all of Tucker’s original families are still here. Some of them have lived in Tucker for as many as eight generations and continue to live on their families’ in-herited land.
Tucker’s rich history is worth exploring.
Enjoy the tour!
Please show your respect for those who have gone be-fore us by walking carefully to not disturb the proper-ties, grave sites or markers. Thank you!
The Founding Families of Tucker Tour
Robert Livsey and his wife Caroline, both born in 1833, do-nated the land for this cemetery. Also buried here are their son James, and his wife, Louisa Chewning. Louisa was the cousin of Alf Chewning, Tucker’s first postmaster. There are also twenty-three head and foot markers for the “Unknown Confederate Soldiers. Here sleep, unknown but to God, ap-proximately twenty-two Confederate soldiers; Robert Toombs Livsey gave one acre of land for this cemetery, providing a burial ground for the Civil War soldiers of 1864.”
Location: 3447 LaVista Road. Look for the stone wall and red “Livsey Memorial Cemetery” sign.
Midway hosts the Gresham and Pylant Founding Families. The Pylant family lived in the Browning District on the old Camp Gordon-Montreal Road, now Briarlake. Lonnie Pylant married Missouri Cash, the only two families that lived on this road.
Location: The Midway Baptist Church (2254 Henderson Mill Rd) is in the middle of the Briarcliff Rd, Henderson Mill Rd, and Fielding Dr. triangle across the street from North-lake Mall.
Greenville is considered by many to be Tucker’s Founding Father. He worked as a miller, farmed large apple and peach orchards, and distilled whiskey and brandy. His gristmill was located near the intersection of Midvale and Henderson Mill Rd. This small family gravesite is a tucked away gem in the back of the Glen Rose subdivision. Green-ville’s grave is the unmarked stone slab with the lower right corner cracked from weather and age.
Location: Between house # 2706 and # 2707 Glenrose Hill, at the very end of the cul de sac. There is a public access walkway between the two homes leading to the historic family plot. Glenrose Hill is off Glenrose Drive, off Hender-son Mill Road.
9. Greenville Henderson Family Plot
8. Midway Baptist Cemetery
7. Livsey Memorial Cemetery
Look around for all the black iron Confederate States of America C.S.A. markers to search out historic gravesites. The first left off Cemetery Ave at Marker 4-A you’ll see Johns Family burial sites on both sides of the dirt road. Re-hoboth also hosts Founding Families, Henderson, Chewning, Cash, Brownlee, Gresham, and Britt, just to name a few.
Location: Rehoboth Cemetery is across the street from the John B. Johns historic Homestead and Rehoboth Baptist Church, 2997 Lawrenceville Hwy. Turn down Cemetery Ave off Lawrenceville Hwy.
While there, be sure to visit Johns Homestead Park. It is a 50-acre green space with hiking trails leading down to and circling around Twin Brothers Lakes. Park at Rehoboth Bap-tist Church and walk the ½ block up Lawrenceville Hwy to explore the 1828 Farmstead and park.
Marion Henderson and Mary Johns had eight children, many of who stayed to settle Tucker. Four Henderson family members are among those buried here, including Rutha Johns. Rutha was the daughter-in-law of John B. Johns, an-other Founding Father of Tucker; Mary Johns was her daughter.
Location: On the Shefa Wellness Center property, 2060 Northlake Parkway. Park in the Shefa parking lot, “Henderson Family Cemetery” is at the front entrance of the building within a rock wall.
William Griffin Henderson, born 1822, was the fourth son of Greenville and Nancy Henderson. He married Fannie Morris and had they eight children. After she died he mar-ried Sarah Richardson and they had four more children. A survey of this cemetery conducted in 1986 found eight in-scribed markers, for members of his immediate family.
Location: In the Best Buy parking lot at LaVista Road and Parklake Drive under the large billboard.
6. Henderson Family Cemetery
5. Marion Henderson Family Gravesite
4. Rehoboth Cemetery
The “New” Fellowship Cemetery was organized on land bought on Fellowship Road by the Primitive Baptist Church congregation in 1869. The new Church was built in 1910, so many of the graves predate the church building. Many of Tucker’s early merchants, doctors and builders are buried here. Gravesites to notice are: Dr. Walter Andrews, one of Tucker’s first doctors with an office on Main Street; Am-brose Chewning, Tucker’s first postmaster who had a grist mill in downtown Tucker; Claude Carroll, a Main Street businessman who was active in many community affairs; Etsel Hannah, a real estate man who bought and sold Tuck-er farmland; the Burns brothers, who established the Bank of Tucker on Main Street; and George M. England, who had a general store and a land and timber business.
Location: next to the current Iglesia Evangelical Apostle Prosetas at 2162 Fellowship Road.
Established in 1829, The Old Fellowship Cemetery is one of the most incredible historic cemeteries in the region. An absolute must see! Four Revolutionary War veterans are buried here, along with Singleton, Goza, and Thomas Found-ing Family members.
Location: At the end of cul de sac behind 4120 Wildflower Lane, off Brockett Rd. Or access the cemetery via the Ameri-can Legion parking lot off Pine Valley Rd. Walk up the short path through the woods to the cemetery.
The Dabney-Shumate Cemetery, circa 1831, hosts two of Tucker’s Founding Families. The information marker and front entrance arch wooden sign were both made in 2006 as an Eagle Scout project. Tucker Civic Association recently restored the information plaque.
Location: 1722 Cooledge Road, across the street from Mary Anna Drive. Park on the circle driveway at the vacant blue daycare facility next door.
2. The Old Fellowship Cemetery
3. Dabney-Shumate Cemetery
1. The “New” Fellowship Cemetery
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