MONROE COUNTY, GA - Cemetery    Rogers Methodist Church African American Cemetery

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Rogers Methodist Church African American Cemetery. 

This Church is located in Monroe County Ga. adjoining the
Roger Methodist Church Cemetery located near Rogers Church
Road on State Highway 74, about half way between the Monroe
County Line and Yatesville Ga. 

The cemetery starts at the road and continues into the woods
for at least two hundred feet. They are at least 100 to 150
unmarked graves with only about eight that contain
headstones with dates. There is a single headstone about 150
feet into the woods surrounded by and unknown number of
unmarked burials. 

Burial in the woods 
Annie Jackson 
Feb 7, 1891 
June 29, 1913 

These burials are near the front of the road to the right side of the main cemetery. 

Clara 
Wife of Newt Bailey 

Robert Smith 
July 22, 1938 
July 20, 1998 

Lillie M. Styles 
Feb. 10, 1902 
Dec. 22, 1997 

Willie Grady Bailey 
April 11, 1918 
Oct. 15, 1950 

Joseph Clyde Bailey 
April 11, 1918 
Oct 21, 1953 

Addline Bailey Smith 
April 20, 1895 
July 26, 1985 

William M. Bailey 
Pvt. U. S. Army 

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John  R. Haynes 
June 5, 1856 
June 24, 1883 

Maud Haynes 
July 25, 1882 
Jan. 15, 1884 

Children of Robert L. and Hattie D. Strozier 

Annie Lee Strozier 
Infant of R. L. and Hattie 
Born and Died  Mar. 25, 1898 

Goodyear Strozier 
Son of R. L. and Hattie Strozier 
June 12, 1894 
Sept. 9, 1894 

George E, Strozier 
Son of R. L. and Hattie Strozier 
July 18, 1889 
June 13, 1891 

Blannie Strozier 
Child of R. L. and Hattie Strozier 
Oct 25, 1886 
Oct. 31, 1886