This historic cemetery has quite a few antebellum headstones and is well-maintained.

Some Historic Headstones of Culloden City Cemetery

He was the son of L. T. & Matilda Doyal. The Doyals were obviously Whigs and supporters of William Henry Harrison, who was running for President around the time of this child’s birth.

She died 12th October 1838 With Strong faith in Glorious Immortality. Born Elizabeth [Eliza] Middleton. Rev. Speer’s biography in Georgia: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons Arranged in Cyclopedic Form (Atlanta, 1906), notes: [he] was a man of broad culture, great eloquence and extensive influence. He was secretary of state or comptroller-general of South Carolina in 1826…Alexander Speer resisted the nullification theories of the Calhoun party. He was put forward as the protagonist of the Union party and the opponent in public discussions of such men as McDuffie…About the year 1833 he removed to Georgia and settled at Culloden, a village noted for the multitude of distinguished men it has sent forth. In the meantime while desperately ill, he had declared that if his life was spared he would devote it to the Christian ministry. He kept his vow and in this work he became even more famous than he had been as a lawyer and politician. He was one of the founders of Wesleyan female college at Macon, and it is believed preached the first commencement sermon at Emory college. The last commencement address made there by the late Associate Justice L. Q. C. Lamar was largely composed of passages quoted from memory from that sermon, from another by Bishop Soule and a commencement oration by George F., afterwards Bishop Pierce. Alexander Speer, after filling many of the principal appointments in the Methodist churches in Georgia and South Carolina, died at Lagrange, Ga., in 1856… The Speers’s son, Alexander M. Speer (1820-1897), served as a Georgia Supreme Court Justice from 1880-1882.

Reverend Flournoy, D. D., was born in Warren County, Georgia. His wife was Sarah A. Flournoy (1803-1847), a native of Beaufort County, South Carolina.

The headstones note that Mr. Sneed was a Virginia native and his consort a Rhode Island native. The tablet in front of the memorials reads: Remains of John and Mary Sneed are buried in Sneed Family Cemetery located on Old Sneed Farm which is 2/10 mile from the present Culloden post office southeast of town on top of hill 300 yards east of old Highway 341. Only the monuments were moved from the graves. -Winter 1975.

Culloden Historic District, National Register of Historic Places