Big Oak Church Cemetery

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ON THIS SPOT STOOD THE BIG OAK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, THE SAME SPOT WHERE PRESBYTERIAN WORK WAS FIRST BEGUN IN THE SOUTH FOR BLACK FREEDOM IN 1864 BY MRS. SAMANTHA J. NEIL THOUGH HER PIONEER
WORK SIX PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH'S FOR BLACK PEOPLE WERE ESTABLISHED. THE OLDEST OF THESE CHURCH'S WAS LOCATED HERE WHERE
MRS. NEIL ORGANIZED HER FIRST CLASS UNDER A BIG OAK TREE AND WAS
APPROPIATELY NAMED "BIG OAK"

Clay, Martha
1919
2000

Hyde, Rev. R. L.
1866
1939

Simms, Loisteine Rebecca Fitzgerald
1924
1984

Thompson, S. W.
1874
1930

Bass, Mary E.
20, July, 1904
16, Jan., 1990

Bazar, Charles Albert
14, Feb., 1916
30, Sept., 1987

Booker, Isabelle Holmes
30, Sept., 1922
15, Oct., 1988

Bradley Sr., Raymond
21, March, 1932
8, August, 1987

Branch, William H.

18, April, 1988

Clay, Pearl Elizabeth J.
6, Sept., 1908
9, March, 2000

Clay Sr., Robert J.
12, May, 1907
15, Dec., 1982

Johnston, Leon H.
30, April, 1916
10, May, 1990

Quarles, Irvy M.
4, Nov., 1926
21, May, 1989

Randolph, John Thomas
21, Nov., 1925
9, May, 1970

Robinson, Arthur L.
31, Dec., 1919
30, Jan., 1980

Venable, Sadie D.
3, Sept., 1904
31, May, 1997

Ward, Albert Leon
11, July, 1922
14, Jan., 1971

Ward, Albert
15, Dec., 1885
22, Oct., 1953

Ward, Jeannette B.
4, Dec., 1893
15, July, 1971

Ward, Milton A.
11, June, 1920
16, March, 1979

Ward, Robert H.
23, June, 1915
3, August, 1991

Ward, Rufus S.
19, July, 1927
13, August, 1993

Ward, Thelma R. Johnston
21, Oct., 1918
3, Sept., 1986

Ward, Virgil Lee
18, April, 1924
21, August, 1994

Approximately 25 unmarked graves