Mary Rests Upon the Hill: A Glimpse of 1845 From the Outskirts of Early Atlanta
Author(s): Hugh B Matternes
Year: 2019
Summary
This is an abstract from the "Cemeteries and Burial Practices" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
Mary Williams passed away in 1845 at age 20 and was buried in a small family cemetery along the Chattahoochee River in what was formerly DeKalb and is now Fulton County, Georgia. There are few historical records chronicling her short life or the community that laid her to rest. Surviving documents were examined to learn about Mary and her world. Relocation if the Williams Cemetery provided an opportunity to examine the material culture associated with Mary’s burial. From Mary’s grave, it can be inferred that she lived and then died in a social landscape transitioning from a semi-isolated rural community towards a greater integration of more mainstream American cultural ideas brought in by the growing regional center of Atlanta.
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Mary Rests Upon the Hill: A Glimpse of 1845 From the Outskirts of Early Atlanta. Hugh B Matternes. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, St. Charles, MO. 2019 ( tDAR id: 449058)
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Keywords
General
Atlanta
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Cemetery
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Obelisk
Geographic Keywords
United States of America
Temporal Keywords
1840-1880
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
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Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 134