HOLLY GROVE CEMETERY (Black)Forrestine Taggart, Deputy Circuit Clerk, provided us with a copy of the deed to the property upon which Holly Grove Cemetery is located. The deed, found in Deed Book G, on page 255, is from Rufus K. Fitzhugh and wife H. E. Fitzhugh to Lewis Morton, Willis Herndon, and Scott Taylor, trustees for teh Colored Baptist Church known as Taylor's Chapel. Dated July 3, 1885, it conveys: "One acre of land out of Section 5, Townsip eight North, Range Three West, in Woodruff County, State of Arkansas, to be laid off in a square form on the township line between Township 8 and 9 and near the building now used by the Colored members of the Baptist Denomination as a place of worship and known as Taylor's Chapel and to include said Chapel within its boundary." The present Holly Grove Missionary Baptist Church is located across the road from the original Taylor's Chapel, which it succeeded in organization. The church and cemetery are on the road leading from Highway 33 to Fitzhugh, about eight miles north of Augusta.
On May 4, 1976, when Jones Montague and I stopped at the cemetery, the foliage and briars were so dense we could not see any stones or markers from the outer edge of the area. We were unable to contact anyone who knew of persons buried in the cemetery, and here again we are indebted to Rhodes Funeral Home for assistance in recording some of the burials in this cemetery. The last burial for which we could find any record occurred in 1969.
Abron, Oleyne "Bate," b. Mar. 1, 1910, d. Aug. 20, 1958 Anderson, James, b. Dec. 29, 1894, d. May 14, 1953 Braun, Willie, b. Nov. 26, 1948, d. Dec. 3, 1948 Brown, Infant, b. Sept. 20 and d. Sept. 21, 1949 Inez, b. Mar. 1, 1912, d. Nov. 21, 1949 Wade, Jr., b. Mar. 22, 1936, d. Nov. 9, 1960 Butler, Della, b. Feb. 8, 1870, d. Feb. 25, 1940 Carter, Alma, b. Aug. 17, 1877, d. Mar. 30, 1953 Clark, Loretta, d. Apr. 1, 1940, aged 39 yrs. Corley, Allen Jean, b. June 21, 1966, d. June 12, 1967 Doby, Henry, b. Dec. 25, 1892, d. Sept. 16, 1952 Grady, Margie, b. June 14, 1902, d. Sept. 27, 1955 Greenberry, John Ella, b. Oct. 8, 1914, d. Feb. 21, 1943 Charlie Mae, d. Oct. 27, 1943, aged 27 yrs. Hampton, Reuben, d. July 3, 1942, aged 4 yrs. Harris, Viola Mildred Fay, stillborn Dec. (or Nov.) 11, 1944 Willie, b. Jan. 24, 1890, d. Feb. 15(?), 1956 Heard, Robert Henry, b. May 16, 1942, d. Jan. 13, 1943 Hendrick, Fred, b. Nov. 11, 1907, d. Jan 16, 1963 Hernton, Annie Lee, d. May 21, 1959, aged 42 yrs. Hill, Andrew, b. Apr. 15, 1894, d. Mar. 26, 1962 Jackson, Junius, b. Feb. 25, 1896, d. Sept. 5, 1941 Marie, b. Jan. 29, 1891, d. Mar. 11, 1959 Arthur, d. Oct. 21, 1960, aged 72 yrs. Josie, b. Aug. 16, 1874, d. Nov. 10, 1965 Kendrick, Agather, d. Sept. 5, 1936, aged 28 yrs. McPherson, Queen, d. Apr. 4, 1948, aged 77 yrs. Mack, Job, d. Aug. 2, 1960, aged 55, yrs. Murray, Milton M., b. Jan. 26, 1883 d. Dec. 25, 1960 Page, Irene, b. June 21, 1916, d. Nov. 1, 1950 Paige, Hallie A., dau. Of Ben, d. Mar. 9, 1957 Richardson, Pearl, d. Jan. 2, 1962, aged 66 yrs. Robinson, Susie, d. Feb. 15, 1960, aged 74 yrs. Rowe, Hermon, b. May 20, 1894, d. July 6, 1958 Leophera, b. Apr. 13, 1934, d. Mar. 7, 1960 Eskew, b. Apr. 12, 1928, d. Apr. 24, 1960 Simpson, Will, b. Mr. 14, 1880, d. Jan. 26, 1955 Emma, b. Mar. 1, 1895, d. May 17, 1960 Spears, Henry Mae. B. and d. Aug. 22, 1969 Townsend, Edward B. May 27, 1961, d. Mar. 28, 1963 Ward, Alex Eugene, b. Dec. 21, 1963, d. Feb. 24, 1964 Wilson, Aproe Eva Grady, b. Oct. 18 1953, d. July 25, 1956.
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