Information about this small 19th century cemetery was found in the
Final Report on The Big Lazer Creek Unmarked Cemetery:
A Multidisciplinary Investigation submitted to the Fisheries Management Section, Game and Fish Division, Georgia Department of Natural Resources in Atlanta, Georgia, by Garrow & Associates, Inc. in April 1987.

According to the report, the "project focused on the excavation and analysis of six historic period graves discovered during construction within the Big Lazer Creek Wildlife Management Area in Talbot County, Georgia."

The "historic period graves [were] found during construction of a parking lot at the Big Lazer Creek Wildlife Management Area in Talbot County...the graves had apparently been unmarked, and were first noted when earthmoving activities began to expose the upper sections of coffins" in 1986.

The excavation, disinterment, and reinterment of the remains from the six graves were conducted under a permit signed by Freeman Montgomery, chairman of the Board of Commissioners of Talbot County, on Nov. 24, 1986.

This unmarked cemetery discovered in 1986 was located near the marked Charles Lee Smith, Sr. family cemetery. Both cemeteries were on the land formerly owned by Charles Lee Smith, Sr. and later by some of his descendants.

The remains from the six graves were reinterred in the existing Charles Lee Smith, Sr. family cemetery in the same east-west direction as they were originally interred in the unmarked cemetery.

Brent Hess, a Fisheries Biologist with Georgia Department of Natural Resources, located and photographed the ruins of the Charles Lee Smith, Sr. home and family cemetery on August 8, 2012. Appreciation is expressed to him for the many hours he spent locating the old Smith homeplace, the family cemetery, and the documents relating to the Big Lazer Creek unmarked cemetery.

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Aug. 30, 2012.