Belmont Cemetery
Fort Stewart, Chatham County, Georgia, USA
Belmont Cemetery is located in Chatham County at Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah. The cemetery is located at HAAF on Perimeter Road. This cemetery was a relocation cemetery and the graves are marked with standardized metal placards with "UNKNOWN 1951" on each. One hundred eighty five (185) such markers are present. It has been suggested that the burials are associated with an influenza outbreak around 1911.
When extending the runway in 1951 they came across a marked cemetery, which was a local community cemetery known as Flowersville or Buckhalter and they moved all the marked graves to another off post cemetery and all the unknown to Belmont Cemetery. 400 more unknowns have been moved to Belmont Cemetery in 2009.
There are now 583 unknown burials and 2 identified.
Belmont Cemetery is located in Chatham County at Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah. The cemetery is located at HAAF on Perimeter Road. This cemetery was a relocation cemetery and the graves are marked with standardized metal placards with "UNKNOWN 1951" on each. One hundred eighty five (185) such markers are present. It has been suggested that the burials are associated with an influenza outbreak around 1911.
When extending the runway in 1951 they came across a marked cemetery, which was a local community cemetery known as Flowersville or Buckhalter and they moved all the marked graves to another off post cemetery and all the unknown to Belmont Cemetery. 400 more unknowns have been moved to Belmont Cemetery in 2009.
There are now 583 unknown burials and 2 identified.
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- Added: 24 Jul 2007
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2225141
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