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Old Key Cemetery

Submitted by Candi Horton

 

In 1926 it was located on the Bell Ferry Road about six miles from Elberton on the original Key plantation


In Memory of WILLIAM BIBB KEY, who was born in Albermarle County, State of Va., Oct. 2, 1759 and died in Elbert Co. Ga. Dec. 7th, 1836.
Erected by Nathan & Lucy Mattox 1850.
 

In Memory of MOANING KEY, wife of Win. B. Key and d/o Christopher Clark, who was born in Albermarle County, State of Va., Aug. 12, 1764 and died in Elbert County Ga., Jan. 22, 1840. Erected by Nathan & Lucy Mattox 1850

 

Source: Inscriptions found on some of the Oldest Graves in Elbert County; Copied by: Stephen Heard Chapter, D.A.R; Printed in Georgia D. A. R., By: Wm., Longstreet, 1926
 

 

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