MONROE COUNTY, GA - CEMETERIES - Holly Grove Church

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Holly Grove Church Cemetery

Location: 
Highway 18 between Dames Ferry and Forsyth
Dames Ferry Road,  near Rum Creek.


Thomas J. Pritchett Co D 45th Ga Inf

J.L.Allen 1818-1902

Lizzie Mae, wife of R.F. Wardell

Fate Roquemore  
Co D 8th GA Inf
Franklin LaFayette (Fate) Roquemore
(Obit on-line)

Three other Roquemores are in the enclosure including:

Betty 1854-1924
W.F. Roquemore 1854-1930
Lucy A. Roquemore 1831-1913

Dollie Mae Poole died in 1899 at 6 years

Taylor, Edward D
son of B.F. and M.F. Taylor 
1871-1905


Simmons, Sara J(Jane) Johnson
1837/38-1883
wife of Marcus Simmons 
Ahab Johnson and Lucretia Davenport Johnson
March 30, 1838 in Monroe County.  

Marcus D. Simmons  (Marcus DeLafayette)
Co. D 45th GA 
1834 -1881
Jan 19, 1834 (Putnam Co)
(son of Dudley L. Simmons and Malinda 
(Melinda?) Dennis Simmons
Researcher:Marjorie Simmons Tanner MargieTanner@aol.com 


William Clark
 1817-1787

Gilbert M.L. Clark 
Co. D 45th GA 
July 2, 1842 - Aug 18, 1920
(Born in Monroe County, Ga. 
Died at Confed Soldiers' Home, Atlanta, Ga)



Ida A. McCord 
1875-1920

Taylor, Sara B.
 wife of J.W. J. Taylor and dau of William B. George of Jones county, ca 1824 - 1879 55 years old.

Jackson, Susie L.
 wife of J.A. Jackson 
1889-1908

H.L. Taylor, 1905-1920

R.F. Taylor 1867-1922

Adiel Colbert 1881-1918

L.B. Thigpen (Lucien Bonaparte
1837-1908
Co C 14th Inf. Reg't. 
Thigpen, Lucien Bonaparte-3d  Corporal July  9, 1861 . Ap
pointed 5th Sergeant.  Surrendered, Appomattox, Va. April
9, 1865 . (Born in Columbia County, Ga. February 25,1836.)

Thigpen, Joanna Smith 
(unmarked grave)
(wife of L.B. Thigpen)

Wright, Ida Mae (Thigpen)
wife of W.T. Wright, 1897 20 years
(daughter of L.B. and Joanna Smith Thigpen)

(The funeral of Mrs. Tom Wright will be preached at Holly
Grove on the 5th Sunday afternoon by Rev. Aiken.The Monroe Advertiser  May 21, 1897)

Another, W.T. Wright inscription is illegible. Many graves are unmarked.


Mrs. Lon Taylor, formerly Miss Frances Colbert


Colbert, Louisa
? Oct 1830 - Jan 5, 1897

Mrs. Louisa, wife of H. L. Colbert, died last Tuesday at
her home near Juliette.  She was sixty-six years and three
months of age.  She has been a leading and active member of
Holly Grove Church for about fifty years.  A devoted
husband, five children and many friends mourn her death.  

The funeral was preached, as she requested from the 40.8 of
Isaiah by Rev. Jesse Mays and the remains were interred in
the church cemetery.

From  The Monroe Advertiser  January 5, 1897 issue
(Contributed by Jane Newton)