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Rossiter: Marker leads to a mystery
Derrell Clark planted a cemetery marker in the middle of his garden. And I just had to ask why. "It was dumped along with a truckload of dirt and I felt funny about throwing it away," he said.
Now, we'd never met. But his yard in Bogart is unique, and during the course of attending a barbecue next to his home, he asked if our curious group would enjoy a tour.
Clark, a retired University of Georgia professor of veterinary medicine, is a man with many projects. Finding out where the stone belonged had been on his to-do list for years. "I'm afraid my kids will think someone is buried here when I'm gone," Clark explained.
I didn't bother telling him I was nosey by profession and worked as a newspaper reporter. I just memorized the name and date on the stone and started digging up details about the deceased.
To my surprise, the first search of the date carved into the granite, July 31, 1934, netted a death notice in Athens' afternoon paper at the time.
The infant son of the Rev. D.L. and Edna Hagood died and was buried the day he was born, a brief obituary stated. Parents of Delma Lyman Jr. lived in a western section of Clarke County known as Oconee Heights at the time. His burial took place nearby at "Boggs church cemetery."
Obits for the parents yielded more information about their long lives. the Rev. Hagood was a Methodist minister who served a number of congregations including churches in Griffin, Dalton, Winder, Buford, Carnesville and Crawford. He also held leadership positions within the denomination's North Georgia Conference. He died Oct. 16, 2000, at the age of 94. His wife, Edna, died nearly four yea
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