reeves

This Cemetery is located in the western section of Crawford Co. Take U.S. 80 West to Beasley Rd., turn left on Beasley, go to intersection of Whitaker Rd., turn right, go to intersection of Whitaker Rd. and Hollis Rd., turn left on Hollis Rd., Cemetery is located on left of Hollis Rd. at intersection.

Directions: From Roberta, Georgia go west on US 80 for about 10 miles, turn left (south) on Olive Grove Church Road (paved). There is a store on that intersection named Gaultney Store. Proceed down Olive Grove Church Rd past the Olive Grove Baptist Church on your right and continue straight. Road will change from paved to dirt after a distance. Proceed further on dirt road, and you will come to a road named Charlie Reeves Road. Reeves family cemetery is on the right just past the intersection of Charlie Reeves Road. The cemetery is not visible from the road, nor is the old home site. There is a large grassy pull-off area on your right. There are two iron-pipe gates blocking two woods roads leading up the hill. Walk around the one on the left up the hill. Walk up the woods road and you will eventually come to the cemetery. You will see a chain link fence surrounding the cemetery. The cemetery is maintained by descendants of James Milton Reeves who live in Georgia. (Updated 2002)

NAME	DOB	DOD
REEVES, Garforde Eugene (Consort of Laura Reeves)	11 Jul 1860	10 Dec 1904
REEVES, James Thomas (Jim Tom) (Son of Ethan Wayne Reeves)	13 Dec 1883	10 Feb 1908
REEVES, Cora Bell (Dau of Ethan Wayne Reeves)	29 Jan 1894	31 Mar 1894
REEVES, James Milton (Co. B, 8BN,GA CAV-CSA)	15 Jun 1824	12 Jul 1897
REEVES, Laurenza (Son of J. M. Reeves)	N/D	N/D
REEVES, Fred (Son of W. M. Reeves)	N/D	N/D
REEVES, James M. Mrs. (Louisa) (NOTE: James Milton Reeves' second wife, Mary Julia Perkins Reeves, died at the age of 78 in 1923, while living with J. J. Reeves, one of her sons, in Monroe County, GA. She is probably buried somewhere in Monroe County, exact location unknown. She was a member of the Missionary Baptist Church)	13 Jan 1829	1876
REEVES, Inez (Dau of J. J. Reeves) (burned to death)	N/D	N/D
REEVES, Mittie (Milly) (Dau of J. M. Reeves)	1864	July 1880
REEVES, John T.(Son of J. M. Reeves) (had a twin brother)	N/D	N/D
REEVES, Infant (Dau of Robert Wm. Reeves)	18 Oct 1880	N/D
REEVES, Maude (Dau of W. M. Reeves)	N/D	N/D
REEVES, Duroc (Son of G. G. Reeves)	N/D	N/D
REEVES, Infant (Of J. T. & Alma Majors) (Alma dau of G. G. Reeves)	N/D	N/D
AUTREY, Infant (Son of Jim & Martha Reeves Autrey)	N/D	N/D
REEVES, Donnie Agnes Mallory	20 Apr 1862	09 Mar 1930
REEVES, Ethan Wayne (Ethan & Donnie are marble slabs side by side)	18 Oct 1857	24 Jul 1924
HARRIS, Infant (Of Franklin Harris) (This is a mystery, as James M. Reeves did not live at this location this early. J. M. Reeves was only 15 years old at the time)	12 Jun 1839	13 Jun 1839

There is a round cement marker with a plaque that reads:
Mr. Kermit Spence
Memorial Chapel
1921-1985

This man died at the Roberta Nursing Home. Having no known relatives, he was cremated and a burial site was donated in the Reeves Cemetery. His ashes were put in a tube or pipe and buried here by descendants of the Reeves family. This was told by Gary Gaultney, one of the descendants, during Paul Reeves' visit to the cemetery. A chain link fence encloses the above graves but there are other graves behind the cemetery, probably slave graves, according to Gary Gaultney. Sadly, most of the headstones of the slave graves were said to been removed by hunters and used to build a firepit at some unknown time in the past, and the slave graves are no longer visible.

Ethan Wayne REEVES, Jr. B: 26 Apr 1875, D: 03 Jul 1926 (his body has been moved to the city cemetery in Thomaston, GA)