Families hire expert in fence dispute at historic Gwinnett cemetery

Loved ones frustrated after months of concerns that a fence may have been erected over graves in a Gwinnett County church cemetery hired a cemetery mapping specialist Tuesday to search for possible burials.

“Back in the day, which would have been in the 1840s, ’60s and ’90s at the latest, people didn’t place markers for every burial,” said cemetery mapping specialist Len Strozier. “They would find the next best thing they could find that would permanently mark the ground where their loved one is buried. That is very important to us.”

Strozier said he identified two possible graves, and potentially a third, beneath the fence…

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