There are five graves in this walled cemetery: three belong to members of the DuBignon family, which ran Jekyll Island for four generations, and two honor locals who drowned on the same day in 1912. Strangely, none of these five people are actually buried in the cemetery. In 1792, wealthy French royalist Christophe Anne Poulain DuBignon escaped from his homeland during the French Revolution. He and his family sailed all the way to the Georgia coast. By 1800, DuBignon owned the entirety of Jekyll Island, where they lived in Horton…
