Mount Pleasant Baptist Cemetery
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Mount Pleasant Baptist Cemetery

Decatur, DeKalb County, Georgia, USA

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  • Get directions 848 Porter Road
    Decatur, Georgia, USA
    Coordinates: 33.76397, -84.24408
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Mount Pleasant is located on Porter Road, off of Kensington Road near the DeKalb Animal Shelter. It is an African American cemetery and covers about an acre of land with few marked graves. There is many unmarked graves. There are stones piled under the trees in the cemetery that may have been used to mark graves, but have been moved. The graves face south unless noted differently. Some of the headstones appear to be "handwritten" in wet cement. Many have the names COX, COX BROTHERS, HAUMABROOKS or TYLER at the top which are the names of local African American funeral homes.



Mt. Pleasant Church, established in 1849, was built on 2 ½ acres donated by Judge Joseph Walker, of historically White Indian Creek Baptist Church, who organized the church members and taught them to conduct their services. He also taught the slaves to read and write. Frank Porter donated the land for the cemetery; descendants of Porter still live adjacent to the cemetery.

Mount Pleasant is located on Porter Road, off of Kensington Road near the DeKalb Animal Shelter. It is an African American cemetery and covers about an acre of land with few marked graves. There is many unmarked graves. There are stones piled under the trees in the cemetery that may have been used to mark graves, but have been moved. The graves face south unless noted differently. Some of the headstones appear to be "handwritten" in wet cement. Many have the names COX, COX BROTHERS, HAUMABROOKS or TYLER at the top which are the names of local African American funeral homes.



Mt. Pleasant Church, established in 1849, was built on 2 ½ acres donated by Judge Joseph Walker, of historically White Indian Creek Baptist Church, who organized the church members and taught them to conduct their services. He also taught the slaves to read and write. Frank Porter donated the land for the cemetery; descendants of Porter still live adjacent to the cemetery.

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  • Added: 26 Jan 2012
  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2435099