Fender Cemetery

FENDER CEMETERY. A short distance East on this road is Fender Cemetery, in which are buried many of the first settlers of the area of old Lowndes County lying East of the Alapaha River, from Union Church. This location for the Cemetery was chosen because of the inconvenience of ferrying the bodies of the dead across the river for burial.

As the grounds were on lands of David Fender, the cemetery was given his family name. The earliest marked grave is that of Josiah Sirmans, one of the organizers of Union Church, who died Jan. 6, 1830. Fender Cemetery was first in Lowndes, then in Clinch, and is now in Lanier County. 086-3 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1958