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A Look Back In Time
The Buena Vista Field Office staff, Soil Scientist Alfred Green, and State Soil
Scientist Edward Ealy assisted the Unified Government of Chattahoochee County in
locating and marking over 80 old unmarked graves in the Mount Olive Cemetery in
the City of Cusseta.
Wes Tuttle, Soil Scientist with National Soil Survey Center in North
Carolina, utilized Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) to identify soil disturbances
and other features which indicated the burial sites. The investigation was done
to prevent the disturbance of any existing graves and to determine the extent of
any remaining available areas for new grave sites.
As suspected, the cemetery is virtually filled to capacity and the County
will need to find another site soon. While the exact age of the Mount Olive
Cemetery was not known at the time of this investigation, it was noted however
that there were headstones dating back to 1853.
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