Development Authority buys land, discovers family graves

DABC moves ahead with purchase, will seek help of an archaeologist and a genealogist

This marker, one of three found lying flat on land being purchased by the Development Authority of Bulloch County off U.S. Highway 301 near Register, memorializes Sarah Williams, who died in 1855, and also names her husband and father. It may or may not mark her actual gravesite. (DABC/Special Photo)

DABC/Special Photo This marker, one of three found lying flat on land being purchased by the Development Authority of Bulloch County off U.S. Highway 301 near Register, memorializes Sarah Williams, who died in 1855, and also names her husband and father. — This marker, one of three found lying flat on land being purchased by the Development Authority of Bulloch County off U.S. Highway 301 near Register, memorializes Sarah Williams, who died in 1855, and also names her husband and father. It may or may not mark her actual gravesite. (DABC/Special Photo)

In response to recent demand for new industrial sites, the Development Authority of Bulloch County has been buying more land, and one tract comes with a surprise – a family burial plot, or at least a collection of markers, including one for a woman who died 168 years ago.

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