JONES ROAD CEMETERY aka
OAK HILL CEMETERY
Lies in the W 1/2 of the NW 1/4 of the NE
1/4 OF Section 1, Township 13 South and Range 26 East, previously owned by
W. H.
Parker. Now platted as Lake
George Manor, MB 5 P 24, Area A Lots 11, 12 +13 and
Area B Lots 19 + 20. Lakeway Drive was
platted through the middle of the cemetery but was constructed around the
perimeter. Click
HERE
to view an aerial photograph of the area in question.
Turn North off CR 309 at Georgetown, onto
Georgetown Shortcut Road. Go
approximately .9 miles and turn right onto Lakeway Drive. Go approximately 1000 feet; road curves to
right around cemetery. The cemetery,
containing around ten acres, is completely overgrown and there is little or no
physical evidence left of the burials here.
This is purported to be the burial site of several “Buffalo Soldiers” but no traces of markers
remain. N 29o
24.090 W 81o 37.559.
WELAKA QUAD. (Abandoned).
This cemetery is also endangered. A telephone call to the Putnam County
Archivist yesterday, June 12, 2002, indicates that a private individual has
bulldozed this property and fenced it in claiming it for his own.
July 10, 2002, word came that the above
statement was a false alarm. The private
individual has mowed and cleaned the underbrush out and in general tidied the
place up. Members of the Cemetery Task
Force went and investigated on June 27.
Last updated 09/10/2019