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Land Cemetery

Piney Grove, Harris County, Georgia, USA

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    Coordinates: 32.61526, -85.02130
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The cemetery is up on a hill and overgrown in woods. To get to it, take the River Road north out of Columbus. Just before the Harris County line, on the right, there is a gravel road that leads up to a relay tower (this road is maintained by the Corps of Engineers). In the past, the road has been gated, but some LAND cousins lived on the River Road just to the north, and they had a key. I'm not sure if this road is the same as the Schley Road on the current map, but I was told that a Dr. Schley owned the land where the cemetery is situated. Part of the way up the hill, the cemetery is off to the right in the woods. Many of the graves are damaged, but were still legible when I visited ten or twelve years ago. Louise Calhoun Barfield states in her "History of Harris County, Georgia" (1961), p. 603: "Land Cemetery: Just off River Road past County Line in Southern Harris Co., left [east] side of road back of Woodall Farm...A family and community cemetery--many graves marked only by stones at each end of the graves. (Grave stones broken and engraving not plain.)" She mentions on p. 607 that the cemetery was situated on the Jacob Land farmstead in the Piney Grove community (this community was served by the Mulberry Post Office). I believe a survey may also have been conducted by June Hanna, probably back in the 1960s or 1970s, and the resulting list would be on file at the Simon Schwob Archives at Columbus University.
The cemetery is up on a hill and overgrown in woods. To get to it, take the River Road north out of Columbus. Just before the Harris County line, on the right, there is a gravel road that leads up to a relay tower (this road is maintained by the Corps of Engineers). In the past, the road has been gated, but some LAND cousins lived on the River Road just to the north, and they had a key. I'm not sure if this road is the same as the Schley Road on the current map, but I was told that a Dr. Schley owned the land where the cemetery is situated. Part of the way up the hill, the cemetery is off to the right in the woods. Many of the graves are damaged, but were still legible when I visited ten or twelve years ago. Louise Calhoun Barfield states in her "History of Harris County, Georgia" (1961), p. 603: "Land Cemetery: Just off River Road past County Line in Southern Harris Co., left [east] side of road back of Woodall Farm...A family and community cemetery--many graves marked only by stones at each end of the graves. (Grave stones broken and engraving not plain.)" She mentions on p. 607 that the cemetery was situated on the Jacob Land farmstead in the Piney Grove community (this community was served by the Mulberry Post Office). I believe a survey may also have been conducted by June Hanna, probably back in the 1960s or 1970s, and the resulting list would be on file at the Simon Schwob Archives at Columbus University.

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  • Added: 4 Nov 2006
  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2195489