Kings Chapel Memorial CME Church Cemetery in Perry, Georgia

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Perry, Georgia, USA

Coordinates: 32.46527, -83.65486
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This is an historical African American burial grounds.

King's Chapel Story began about 1851 when John Rudolph King, a Plantation owner moved from SC to 1,7000 acres of land in Houston county, GA with 300 Plus slaves. In 1865 after Emancipation of the slaves, the slaveowner King, deeded the King Chapel church and cemetery land to a Church board of Trustees. The deed contained a stipulation that is land used for anything other than the Church, the land would revert back to the Heirs of the King Family.

The founding trustees of King Chapel were Gabriel Green and his wife Violet Davis Green, Ben and Emma Marion, John and Rebecca Bannister and William Turner who were all ex-slaves of the King Plantation.

This is an historical African American burial grounds.