Cemetery

A wide view of a section of the cemetery at Temple Methodist Church in Arnoldsville, GA on Sept. 13, 2026. Julio Soto has performed tombstone restorations in the church's cemetery. (Sabrina Felix/The Oglethorpe Echo)

A wide view of a section of the cemetery at Temple Methodist Church in Arnoldsville, GA on Sept. 13, 2026. Julio Soto has performed tombstone restorations in the church's cemetery. (Sabrina Felix/The Oglethorpe Echo)

Business brings new life to final resting places

Sabrina Felix
Wednesday, September 16, 2026
Countless volunteers worked hard to ensure nearly 460 Oglethorpe County cemeteries weren’t forgotten, and one business offers a service focused on giving the tombstones a bit of TLC.
Don Davis, a retired veteran, sits along the wall he built to help protect the graves he maintains on his property on Buddy Faust Road in Lexington. Not much is known about the people buried in the three graves next to his house. (MARY CATHERINE DODYS/THE OGLETHORPE ECHO)

Don Davis, a retired veteran, sits along the wall he built to help protect the graves he maintains on his property on Buddy Faust Road in Lexington. Not much is known about the people buried in the three graves next to his house. (MARY CATHERINE DODYS/THE OGLETHORPE ECHO)

Preserving their memory: Davis maintains unmarked cemetery

Mary Catherine Dodys
Friday, September 27, 2024
The traditional image of a cemetery is quite different from many in Oglethorpe County, where families often buried their loved ones on their own land, sometimes unmarked.  These family gravesites are scattered throughout the county.