Colored People Cemetery also known as A.C. Dunlap Memorial Cemetery is located off Highway 80 and East Olliff St. in Statesboro, Georgia. It was called ‘The Colored People Cemetery' because it was behind the White Eastside Cemetery which was founded in 1903.

There were no cemeteries to properly bury Black folks without going to country Churches. The local Ancestors of African Heritage of Statesboro, Georgia purchased the plots of land and those founding volunteers maintained the cemetery. When the land was first obtained senior citizens purchased plots for their families. If you could not purchase your plots in full, an option to pay on the plots a little at a time until paid in full. Plots were sold for $5.00 to $10.00. Records were kept because the plots were sold with the understanding that the purchasers would keep record of where their families were buried.

Memorials

VETERANS

• Barney Baldwin (1928-1979) US Army (Eastside Cemetery)
• Charlie Baldwin (1919-1989) US Army
• William Bell (1919-198_) US Army
• Herbert C. Brown (1918-1988) US Army
• Burney Brown (1898-1928) US Army
• Arnett Brown (unkn -1936) US Army
• Rufus P. Butler (1914-1965) US Army
• Rosler Wayman Butler (1917-1981) US Army
• Jessie Campbell (1916-1960) US Army
• John Collins, Jr. (d. 1939) US Army
• Sam Cooper (1916-1979) US Army
• Ulysses Day (1902-1955) US Army
• James Horace Douse (1930-1959) US Air Force
• Frank Edwards (1923-1959) US Army
• Barbara L. Fields (1953-1993) US Army
• William Henry Fuller (1926-1988) US Army
• Lindsey C. Fulton (1913-1972) US Army
• Douglass Gray (1952-2016) Vietnam
• Peroy Jasper (1938-1988) US Army
• Luke James Johnson (1936-1984) US Air Force
• Bradford Johnson (1908-1980) US Army
• Roosevelt Johnson (1927-1965) US Army
• Flozel Johnson (1920-1999) US Army
• Welmon Floric Johnson (1918-1963) US Army
• Herschel A. Jones (1920-2006) US Army
• Willie Martin (1898-1959) US Army
• Leroy Roger McClain (1925-1946) US Army
• Carlie Cordell Mincey (1953-1996) US Air Force
• Walter Mincey (1892-1967) US Army
• LaVaughn Natson (1950-2010) US Army
• Steve Odoms (1929-1986) US Army
• Bruce Odoms, Jr. (1947-2003) US Army
• Vernon B. Pryor (1933-1997) US Navy
• Frederick D. Pughsley (1907-1991) US Army
• Sylvester Severson (1957-2016) US Marine Corps
• Brantley Simmons (1928-1986) US Army
• Japan Simmons (1922-1974) US Army
• Sam Smith, Jr. (1919-1977) US Army
• Roger Smith, Jr. (1892-1967) US Army
• John Spencer (1887-1970) US Army
• Eric Earl Titus (1957-1997) US Army
• Lawyer Walter (1894-1968) US Army
• Percy White (January 6, 1939)
• Willie Frank Wilburn (1947-2009) US Air Force
• William Daniel Wilder (1912-1989) US Army
• Millard Williams (1890-1964) US Army
• Willie Williams, Sr. (1896-1965) US Army
• Willie Williams (1922-1982) US Army

FORMERLY ENSLAVED

• Sollomon Brown (1851-1903) MEMORIAL ID 97662862 Enslaved African Heritage Ancestor
• Henry George (1860-1948)
• Spencer Miller (1861-1938)
• Mariah Pate (1857-1947)
• Lewis Thomas (1853-1929)

TEACHERS

• Rufus R. Butler (1914-1965)
• Myra Chapple (1925-2005)
• Mamie Jenkins Mincey (1923-1982)
• Ollie Mae (Butler) Moore (1919-1973)

MINISTERS

• Elder Frank Loudrick Atkinson (1916-2004)
• Rev. James Canty (1928-2005)
• Rev. Alexander Christian Dunlap (1866-1923) MEMORIAL ID 116541838 The Cemetery was named after this African Heritage Ancestor
• Rev. Arthur Fields (1934-2009)
• Rev. S.J. Jackson (1891-1971)
• Rev. Patrick Peoples Jones (1928-2011)
• Pastor Dorothy Mae Littles (1940-2017)
• Rev. Henry McClary (1912-1992)
• Rev. James Pardue (1900-1971)
• Rev. Josephine C. Sweet (1958-2015)

CENTENARIANS

• Edna Baldwin (1906-2009)
• Alberta Jackson (1885-1987)

Interred

• Sarah Albright (1919-1972) MEMORIAL ID 92852670
• Bertha G. Allen (1902-1976) MEMORIAL ID 68502346
• Sarah Albright (1919-1972) MEMORIAL ID 92852670
• Bertha G. Allen (1902-1976) MEMORIAL ID 68502346
• Elaine Allen (unkn-unkn) MEMORIAL ID 95057874
• JoAnn “Panda” Allen (1949-2008) MEMORIAL ID 68509257
• Tevin O'Riley Alston (1991-2011) MEMORIAL ID 100126626
• Thomas E Andrews (1932-1974 ) MEMORIAL ID 92852557
• Frank Loudrick Atkinson (1916-2004) MEMORIAL ID 95047538
• Irene O Atkinson (1927-2006) MEMORIAL ID 84384318
• Hettie Taylor Bailey (unkn-unkn) MEMORIAL ID 95051391
• Charlie Baldwin (1919-1989) MEMORIAL ID 93530631
• Edna McCray Baldwin (1907-2009) MEMORIAL ID 40384124
• Bennie Barker (1905-1977) MEMORIAL ID 94050676
• L B Barnes Jr. (1925-1925) MEMORIAL ID 205670803
• Robert Bazemore (1897-1991) MEMORIAL ID 92468153
• Willie M Bazemore (1908-1947) MEMORIAL ID 92468079
• Evelyn Johnson Bell (1940-2012) MEMORIAL ID 90871849
• William S Bell (1919-1982) MEMORIAL ID 93814972
• Allie Mae Belle (1911-2008) MEMORIAL ID 97665769
• Willie Belle (1918-1921) MEMORIAL ID 215154038
• Lizzie L Berry (1894-1977) MEMORIAL ID 97663105
• Charles J Best (1921-2005) MEMORIAL ID 95525978
• Charlies A Best (1915-1988) Memorial ID 95525561
• Deroy Brinson Memorial ID 92738862
• Ethel Polk Best (1912-1978) MEMORIAL ID 95525645
• Eva Cone Best (1904-1992) MEMORIAL ID 91708106

... ... ... is buried in Space: A.C._Dunlap_Memorial_Cemetery.

Sources

https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2511224/a.c.-dunlap-memorial-cemetery - Find-A-Grave - "Colored People Cemetery"

https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1010&context=willowhill-cemeteries-tours - “IF THESE CEMETERIES COULD TALK”