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Yawn Cemetery traces its beginnings to about 1890, when it was laid out along what is now Yawn Cemetery Road in rural Jeff Davis County, a short distance southeast of Hazlehurst. The site holds roughly eighty documented graves, nearly all photographed by volunteers, reflecting the farming families who settled this stretch of the south Georgia wiregrass country. Its late-nineteenth-century founding places it among the older community burial grounds in the area.
Yawn Cemetery is a cemetery in Hazlehurst, Jeff Davis County. It is one of 16 cemeteries documented in Jeff Davis County, among 20 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 31.6885, -82.5953 near Hazlehurst. The nearest cataloged historic site is Simmons Cemetery (cemetery), about 1.5 miles away. Others within a short drive include Wilson Cemetery, Hinson Cemetery, and Hinson Cemetery.
This record is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
Yawn Cemetery traces its beginnings to about 1890, when it was laid out along what is now Yawn Cemetery Road in rural Jeff Davis County, a short distance southeast of Hazlehurst. The site holds roughly eighty documented graves, nearly all photographed by volunteers, reflecting the farming families who settled this stretch of the south Georgia wiregrass country. Its late-nineteenth-century founding places it among the older community burial grounds in the area.
Sources: findagrave.com
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