New Echota Cemetery

On the hilltop, 100 yards to the south, is the cemetery for the village of new Echota. The marked graves are those of Pathkiller, Principal chief of the Cherokee Nation until his death in 1827 and a colonel in Morgan´s regiment in the War of 1812, and Harriet Gold Boudinot, born in Connecticut in 1805, wife of Elias Boudinot, editor of the Cherokee Phoenix. One of the unmarked graves is that of Jerusha Worcester, infant daughter of Samuel and Ann Worseter, the mission family at new Echota.

GHM 064-30 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISION 1962

Plaque courtesy Lat34North.com.

Original page, with additional info, here.

Photo credit: Byron Hooks of Lat34North.com.