The old Dover Cemetery is all but invisible from the road save for a few heavily worn headstones peeking out from a family plot overgrown with long, dry grass and pine saplings. Further back, some of the more recent headstones have been tended to, but a collapsed wire fence and thickets of brambles stand as evidence of years of neglect. Dover, which once belonged to a 19th-century Methodist church, is one of nearly 300 cemeteries in Newton County, many of which have fallen into dilapidation.