Garth Cemetery in Decatur, Alabama - Find a Grave Cemetery

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Get directions Between 927 and 1001 Danville Road SW
Decatur, Alabama 35601 United States

Coordinates: 34.59319, -87.00178
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This cemetery is near the site of the long-destroyed home of General Jesse Winston Garth. The cemetery is surrounded by a stone wall topped with an eight-foot iron fence and contains the partially destroyed remnants of several very fine monuments. In addition, a locked 8 foot chain-link fence surrounds the stone wall. This cemetery was copied in 1943, 1960 and 1982. Some of the previously copied stones have been destroyed or broken and only pieces remained when the cemetery was copied in September of 1982. The cemetery is part of a 20-acre tract held in trust by Garth descendants,.

Directions: From Highway 31 in Decatur, turn west on Moulton Street. Continue on Moulton Street and turn left on Memorial Drive SW. Memorial Drive SW turns into Danville Rd SW. After you pass Roselawn Cemetery and Ridouts Funeral Home, slow down and look for 927 Danville Rd. There is a driveway between 927 and 1001 Danville Rd. You can drive part of the way on this driveway but then you will have to park your car and walk through a snake-infested thicket about 50 yards. The driveway and cemetery is grown up with bushes and briars.