Quiet nook in Cornelia preserves family’s history
The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. B.P. Smith also has an angel figurine standing watch in front of his headstone in the the Warren-Martin/Smith Family Cemetery in Cornelia. ZACH TAYLOR/Special
The headstone of Matilda Warren, wife of J.M. Martin, is nestled in the shade of an oak tree in the Warren-Martin/Smith Family Cemetery. ZACH TAYLOR/Special
A sign designating the Warren-Martin/Smith Family Cemetery sits on the side of VFW Post Rd. ZACH TAYLOR/Special
The Warren-Martin/Smith Family Cemetery has been a mystery to residents and local genealogists for more than two decades.
Since the burial of B.P. Smith’s infant daughter in May 1911, p...