Saint Mary's Public Cemetery in Saint Marys, Georgia

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Coordinates: 30.73466, -81.55028
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In 1787, James Finley donated 2.5 acres of land to the municipality. The land was given with the expressed purpose of being designated as a pauper's cemetery.

The last known burial at the cemetery happened in 1912 when A.J. O'Berry was convicted of murder and hanged for his crime. Like all the gravesites in the cemetery, it's unclear where O'Berry's remains lie.

There are more than two hundred people buried here but the location of where they are is a mystery

Those buried there include paupers, criminals, yellow fever victims, murderers and their victims, slaves, passengers of boats who died at sea and people from out of town who died during their visit.

Records identify many of those buried at the cemetery, but there is nothing showing where they were buried