LOCATION: This cemetery is located in a wooded area atop a hill near a present power transmission line at aprox. GPS coordinates of N33d30.2' and W84d42.7'.

Driving from Palmetto, GA travel S on US Hwy 29 a short distance then turn right onto Tommy Lee Cook Rd. Follow T.L.C. Rd about 2-3 miles and turn left onto Gosden Rd (a dead end road). The cemetery will be atop a wooded hill on your left before passing under where the power wires crosses Gosden Rd. In 2016, the easiest access was thru the back yard of the first house on the left on Gosden Rd. (with permission of the homeowner please!)

HISTORY: This is probably the first cemetery in Coweta Co, GA after its formation in 1827 from Creek Indian lands.

FIRST OWNER: Abner Smith, (RS) received 202.5 acres in newly formed Coweta County the 1827 GA Indian Land Lottery for his service in the Rev. War. He died within weeks of his arrival at his new property and was the first burial on this new land to start the cemetery.

In Abner's Will, his son John B. Smith received this property including his father's grave. (See Coweta Co, GA, Will Book 'A', page 1, for Abner's will. His was the first Will probated in this newly established county.)

Later, John B.Smith sold this same land to his father-in-law, John Bailey. Both men are also buried here as is some of the Morgans and presumably other family members along with slaves that were named in Abner's will. A survey shows there are at least 15 graves in this cemetery both adult and child sized. Most graves were originally marked with field stones or bricks - none with inscriptions.

NOTE: This cemetery was described in error as the "Condor" cemetery in a published Coweta Co book that listed early county cemeteries.

(by: Bill Burdette, G-G-G Grandson of Abner Smith)