The final resting-place of James and Sarah Loyd hasn't been altogether restful, but one of their descendants is doing his best to make sure they are finally at peace.

Vandals last week destroyed the "tabletop" grave stones and broke into the graves of the Loyds, great-great-grandparents of Peachtree City real estate developer Scott Bradshaw. The incident was the most recent and possibly most serious of a series of damaging incidents at the small family cemetery, located off Sumner Road near the eastern limits of the city.

Peachtree City Police Chief Jim Murray said a team from his department examined the site last Friday and determined that bones found, apparently tossed inside the Sarah Loyd grave, were probably canine. Evidence has been sent to the State Crime Lab for reports, he added.

Bradshaw said that he and a friend have now replaced the bricks from inside the graves, replaced the covering stones and "concreted everything ... anybody will have a real hard time getting in there again." He said he is willing to "cooperate with the police in every way I can, to make sure that whoever is involved in this vandalism is prosecuted."

Bradshaw said his mother, Ardath Loyd Bradshaw of Ocilla, was born on the property in a house "not far from the little cemetery." The land has been in his family's hands since 1823, when James Loyd homesteaded after the Creek Treaty. James was born in 1798 and died in 1849, nearly 150 years ago. Sarah was born in 1800 and died in 1872. A niece of the Loyds, Ida B. Ellison, is buried there also, but her grave was not damaged.

The cemetery is platted separately from a subdivision Bradshaw is building in the area, he says, in order to protect the grave sites and maintain them. The Loyds are listed in Fayette County's "cemetery book" as part of a large group of "founders" named Loyd, according to county historian Carolyn Cary.

Murray says that there was no evidence at the scene which would point to identities for the vandal or vandals. He said he expects that "something will turn up."