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A date tablet set into the brick entrance wall records that this private Tucker cemetery was laid out in 1839, when pioneer settler John Bolen Johns (1806-1896) gave an acre for its founding. Johns and his family are buried here, near the 1825 farmhouse he built. He later helped establish the Rehoboth Baptist Church across Lawrenceville Highway, donating land and financing its first building in 1854.
Rehoboth Cemetery is a cemetery in Tucker, DeKalb County. It is one of 34 cemeteries documented in DeKalb County, among 143 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 33.8321, -84.2481 near Tucker. The nearest cataloged historic site is Floral Hills Memory Gardens (cemetery), about 0.1 miles away. Others within a short drive include Federal Left Wing to Decatur, Logan's 15th & Blair's 17th A.C. to Decatur, and The March to Decatur.
This record is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
A date tablet set into the brick entrance wall records that this private Tucker cemetery was laid out in 1839, when pioneer settler John Bolen Johns (1806-1896) gave an acre for its founding. Johns and his family are buried here, near the 1825 farmhouse he built. He later helped establish the Rehoboth Baptist Church across Lawrenceville Highway, donating land and financing its first building in 1854.
Sources: findagrave.com
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