UPDATED 11 JULY 1999

OAK GROVE CEMETERY(MCCONNELL CEMETERY)

WILKINSON COUNTY, GEORGIA

(ALSO KNOWN AS OLD WARD CEMETERY)

SURVEYED 22 DEC 1998

EDGAR G. BREWER JR

5 MAR 1960/16 AUG 1971

DOROTHY L. BREWER

22 MAY 1932/13 APR 1969

HENRY BREWER

23 MAY 1893/31 OCT 1964

ZULA S. BREWER

23 AUG 1895/1 MAR 1970

INFANT GRAVE UNMARKED

MR W.H. BREWER

B. ca 1855, no date

MRS W.H. BREWER

B. ca 1856, no date

INFANT GRAVE UNMARKED

CRAWFORD H. TARPLEY

14 JUN 1924/25 AUG 1924

ELIZABETH SHEPHERD TARPLEY

16 FEB 1858/20 JAN 1940

SLAB WITH ABOVE NOTED

UNMARKED GRAVE RIGHT SIDE OF ELIZABETH S. TARPLEY, BELIEVED TO BE HER HUSBAND'S GRAVE? NO SLAB BUT SUNKEN IN DIRT.

ANNIE WARD

10 OCT 1882/10 JUN 1964

SOLOMAN W. WARD

6 OCT 1877/5 JAN 1939

LARKIN MCCONNELL

B.ca 1810 d.1887

MILLY MCCONNELL

B.ca 1812, no date

THOMAS H. MCCONNELL

15 SEP 1849/1 JUN 1939

VISA MCCONNELL

15 OCT 1851/26 MAY 1939

AT LEAST 8 UNMARKED GRAVES

DIRECTIONS:

FROM IRWINTON,GA TAKE HWY57 PAST WHITE SPRINGS CHURCH RD(CR54) ON LEFT, AT THE CORNER OF KING RD(CR55), ON LEFT AND HWY57 IS THE CEMETERY.

*THE FOLLOWING WAS NOTED ON A RECENT CLEANING OF THE CEMETERY BY A GROUP OF MCCONNELL DESCENDANTS. FROM FAR AWAY AS FORT LEE, VA AND NC, TO AS CLOSE AS GORDON,GA:

WILLIAM MCCONNELL'S GRAVE CONSISTING OF BROKEN UP RED BRICKS WERE PUT TOGETHER AS SUCH A WAY TO ORGANIZE THE BRICKS. THERE WAS SOME READING, "WILL.., MCC.." THAT WAS BARELY READABLE. IT IS BELIEVED THIS IS THE GRAVE OF WILLIAM MCCONNELL. WILLIAM MCCONNELL WAS BORN ABT 1787 IN SC AND DIED ABT 1851 IN WILKINSON CO,GA.

WILLIAM MCCONNELL'S WIFE GRAVE IS ALSO BELIEVED TO BE IN THIS CEMETERY, UNMARKED. HER NAME IS UNKNOWN AT THIS TIME. SHE HAD PASSED PRIOR TO THE 1850 WILKINSON CO CENSUS.

MATTIE DEE BARLAR SNIPES , WIFE OF (UNREADABLE) JUNE 20, 1906 - FEB 13 1936.

UNMARKED MOUNT WITH WOODEN STAKE RIGHT SIDE OF MATTIE SNIPES

UNMARKED SLAB RIGHT SIDE OF ABOVE UNMARKED MOUNT.

ACCORDING TO MR GEORGE SHEPARD(THAT WAS PRESENT AT THE CLEANING) THE FOLLOWING IS ADDED:

MILES RILEY SHEPHERD GRAVE UNMARKED

MILLY CATHERINE MCCONNELL SHEPHERD GRAVE(WIFE OF MILEY R. SHEPHERD) UNMARKED.

DAU OF MILEY R. AND MILLY MCCONNELL SHEPHERD, NANCY ANN SHEPHERD(NEVER MARRIED) UNMARKED GRAVE.

IT IS ALSO BELEIVED THERE ARE MANY UNMARKED GRAVES IN THIS CEMETERY THAT ARE NOT KNOWN .

THERE WAS ALSO A CEMENT OVER-TURNED SLAB, BELIEVED TO BE A GRAVE SLAB OF SOMEONE IN THE CEMETERY. THIS SLAB WAS OVER TURNED AND COULD NOT BE TURNED OVER TO DETERMINE IF THIS WAS A ACTUAL GRAVE. IT SURE DID LOOK LIKE SOMEONE HAD MOVE THIS SLAB AND OVER-TURNED IT. FOR WHAT REASON, NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW. HOPEFULLY IT WAS NOT TO TRY AND DIG SOMEONE'S REMAINS FROM THE GROUND.