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This information is based on interviews conducted with Colonel Lemuel J. Allred and Mr. James Simmons, by the Ellijay Courier newspaper in 1887. Not long after Pickens County was carved out of Cherokee County and Gilmer in 1853 by legislation drafted by Colonel Lemuel Allred, a new town was proposed as the county seat. James Simmons, the former legislator who moved to the area in 1835 and lived in Colonel Haney Nelson's old Tavern along the Federal Road, originally proposed

As with most counties in America, Cherokee County has several family cemeteries. Back in the days of the early settlers of a county, in the age of pre-refrigeration and automobiles, families of moderate means would have their own private family graveyards. The Green-McCraw (later misspelled McGraw) family cemetery is one such place. The first time I went to this property I was also in search of an old family homestead. I didn't find one, but I did find their cemetery.

In a previous post about Young Potts Cemetery, we learned of Young Potts, his emigration to the gold mines of the Dahlonega area, and his acquisition of land in the Wolfscratch Wilderness area. He was a successful businessman and built a nice house beside a spring near the north end of Yellow Creek (The creek, not the road) north of present Hwy 53 and east of Steve Tate. Potts died early and his wife and daughters remained at the property, one day after Mrs. Potts died, Roxi