Omer Christian Church was organized in 1883 by Rev. R. V. Omer, district evangelist for northeast GA. Regular church services were discontinued in 1910 when Carter Hill Christian Church was built. The business of Omer Church is handled by a Board of Trustees. The church & cemetery are well maintained. Worship services are still held once each year on the last Sunday of August.
The cemetery predates the church and had the first burial in 1820, according to H. A. Norris. The story is that a family was moving west and were following an Indian trail that passed Thomas Dillard's house. The weather was so severe that the family stopped for shelter at the Dillard house. While they were there, their small child died and was buried on the Dillard property. Mr. H. A. Morris has erected a marker to that effect at the end of Row 1.
Page 357 of Barrow County Cemeteries by East Georgia Genealogical Society.
The cemetery predates the church and had the first burial in 1820, according to H. A. Norris. The story is that a family was moving west and were following an Indian trail that passed Thomas Dillard's house. The weather was so severe that the family stopped for shelter at the Dillard house. While they were there, their small child died and was buried on the Dillard property. Mr. H. A. Morris has erected a marker to that effect at the end of Row 1.
Page 357 of Barrow County Cemeteries by East Georgia Genealogical Society.
Omer Christian Church was organized in 1883 by Rev. R. V. Omer, district evangelist for northeast GA. Regular church services were discontinued in 1910 when Carter Hill Christian Church was built. The business of Omer Church is handled by a Board of Trustees. The church & cemetery are well maintained. Worship services are still held once each year on the last Sunday of August.
The cemetery predates the church and had the first burial in 1820, according to H. A. Norris. The story is that a family was moving west and were following an Indian trail that passed Thomas Dillard's house. The weather was so severe that the family stopped for shelter at the Dillard house. While they were there, their small child died and was buried on the Dillard property. Mr. H. A. Morris has erected a marker to that effect at the end of Row 1.
Page 357 of Barrow County Cemeteries by East Georgia Genealogical Society.
The cemetery predates the church and had the first burial in 1820, according to H. A. Norris. The story is that a family was moving west and were following an Indian trail that passed Thomas Dillard's house. The weather was so severe that the family stopped for shelter at the Dillard house. While they were there, their small child died and was buried on the Dillard property. Mr. H. A. Morris has erected a marker to that effect at the end of Row 1.
Page 357 of Barrow County Cemeteries by East Georgia Genealogical Society.
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