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 This
cemetery was used by the Myers family and was a space
for the family members to be interrred and a place for those they
enslaved to be interred. On the map, this cemetery was likely known as
Hopewell Cemetery.
Myers Plantation is a little hard to find if you are not
familiar with Glynn County. From the intersection of Hwy. 17 south and
Hwy. 82 west, travel four miles west on Hwy. 82 and turn right on Emanuel Church
Road. About 1.6 miles on your left will be Emanuel Church Loop, turn left. You will go about one half mile, crossing a railroad track with a stop sign. Be sure to STOP at this because the train goes about 100mph and you won't know
it until it hits you!
Turn left onto Timber Landing Road after crossing the track. You can only go left as the road dead ends to a hunting club gate. About
eight tenths of a mile on your left will be Myers Plantation PE. It is
merely a dirt driveway, one branch goes off to the left and the other off to the
right. You want to go right. Five tenths of a mile down this drive
you will pass through a gateway, keep going straight for one more tenth of a
mile then turn right and go another tenth of a mile, passing in front of a white
double-wide mobile home.
You will turn left after you pass the mobile home onto a
grassy lane and another tenth of a mile you will be in the beginning of the
cemetery. You can either park here, or turn right, keeping the little
camper on your left. The camper was the home of the care taker who
recently passed away.
Unfortunately,
in the section for the enslaved and their descendants, only one grave is marked with a name, and one with a
concrete slab. In the family section is an old crumbling brick tomb that
was the final resting place of George C. Myers and his wife
Isabella Dodge. According to the family,
George and wife were moved to another cemetery nearby,
the Davis Drury Cemetery.
Due to the lack of
markers, it is unknown how many people are buried here but there are many
indentations and impressions to suggest numerous burials and according
to other research, the cemetery for the enslaved extends onto the
neighboring property. From doing various research, I have come
across three death records for African-American people who are said to
be buried here, and I'm sure there are more to be found; it's too bad
there aren't any cemetery records.
Cemetery visited in August 2002
and June 2003.
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