Macedonia Baptist Church Cemetery in Spence, Georgia

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Coordinates: 31.04080, -84.17690
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From Cairo at N Broad ST & US 84, travel GA Hwy 93/111 N for 3.5 miles. Continue N on GA Hwy 111 N for 4.5 miles. Turn L onto Spence RD, travel 2.7 miles. Turn L onto Stagecoach RD, travel 1.0 mile. Cemetery is on right across from church.

Survey notes: Surveyed 833 graves in 2005, beginning in SW corner. In 1882, families of the Spence community felt the need to start a church. Families met under a brush arbor in the vicinty of the Andrew Carter Cox family plot of the old section of the cemetery. In 1888, Tharpe Spence and his wife Rebecca, gave land forthe church and cemetery.Rebecca gavethe church its name, Macedonia. In 1905, H.V. Shepard gave an additional one acre tract of land for the cemetery to deacons of the church. (Note: The following year (1906) Grady County was formed from this portion of Thomas County, Georgia).