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Behavior Cemetery sits in the Behavior community on Sapelo Island, serving as a burial ground for the enslaved people once held on Thomas Spalding's island plantation and for their descendants. Its exact origins are unrecorded, but interments have been documented here since at least the 1870s, and the site is still in use today. Many graves are marked only by fieldstones and shallow depressions, and a 2010 excavation uncovered slave-cabin ruins along the cemetery's edge.
Behavior Cemetery is a cemetery in Sapelo Island, Mcintosh County. It is one of 33 cemeteries documented in Mcintosh County, among 89 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 31.4284, -81.2806 near Sapelo Island. The nearest cataloged historic site is Behavior Cemetery (historic place), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Old Sailors Burying Ground, First African Baptist Church at Raccoon Bluff, and Sapelo Island.
This record is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
Behavior Cemetery sits in the Behavior community on Sapelo Island, serving as a burial ground for the enslaved people once held on Thomas Spalding's island plantation and for their descendants. Its exact origins are unrecorded, but interments have been documented here since at least the 1870s, and the site is still in use today. Many graves are marked only by fieldstones and shallow depressions, and a 2010 excavation uncovered slave-cabin ruins along the cemetery's edge.
Sources: findagrave.com
“Behavior Cemetery” names 2 distinct records in Mcintosh County. This page is the cemetery in Sapelo Island. The others:
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