Comments on: Crews Work To Uncover History Of Old Muscogee Cemetery

By: Brenda

Brenda — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 03:36:21 +0000

We appreciate all the work that Gulf Power and all the folks that have helped to clean the cemetery that was long forgotten. My 2nd Great Grandpa and his brother are buried in the cemetery in unmarked graves. Wish we had some way of finding out at least a general area they would be in.

By: Jane Lee Merritt Gabriel

Jane Lee Merritt Gabriel — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 00:28:44 +0000

Some years ago I and my husband Tony were blessed to be able to take part in a cleaning and mapping project of the Muscogee Cemetery. My Grandparents and an Aunt is buried there. I love ❤️ this place so very much but since I live quite a distance away and have gotten older myself, I haven’t been able to preserve this precious place. Thank you to all those who live close and are able for helping to preserve this cemetery. ❤️

By: Richard Johnson

Richard Johnson — Fri, 23 Sep 2022 19:36:10 +0000

I visited the old Muskogee Cemetery today and was angry at the state of this place. Overgrown grass, headstones destroyed and pushed over. One grave seems to have been dug into.. Not to mention the forgotton graves in the woods that have completely grown over again due to lack of care for this place. It is a shame that the graves of these human beings, would be just forgotton to be erased by time and forgotten.Total disrespect for the final resting place of all these people! The county and state should be ashamed of themselves for allowing this! It makes me very sad to see this! I want to help any way i can.

By: rylan

rylan — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 23:22:07 +0000

I found this cemetery by accident trying to find fillingim river… it is so scarcely beautiful. The graves have been vandalized and there are tiny unmarked graves for infants… This place needs to be protected at all costs.

By: Patsy W Marquis

Patsy W Marquis — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 03:18:36 +0000

My Maternal McDonald Grandparents and one of my aunts are buried there. Grandmother 1934 Grandfather 1952.. Also other relatives buried there.. My father Robert Weekley worked this cemetery for 18 yrs.. It became to much for him to do.. Then the company bought the property and started maintaining it.. My Mother Annie McDonald Weekley was born in Muscogee 1931.. Grandfather worked at the sawmill until it was closed down.. The P.O. closed 1954.. I know so much history about Muscogee.. I was born and raised in Muscogee and only live a few miles away now.

By: Sharon

Sharon — Mon, 19 Aug 2019 17:20:57 +0000

I would like to thank everyone that was involved in this project for the Old Muscogee Cemetery. My fathers family is buried in this cemetery. We live out of state and when he went to visit the cemetery back many years ago it was just a mess. Older people that had familys there moved away and it was hard for them to take care of the cemetery. The company that is now overseeing the cemetery has posted a map of the gravesites and names of as many as they can identify. The cemetery is beautiful and I was able to visit it this spring. Thank you again.

By: William J. Jones

William J. Jones — Sun, 11 Aug 2019 19:54:12 +0000

Is it still possible to be buried in the Old Miscogee Cemetery?

By: Jane Lee

Jane Lee — Tue, 02 May 2017 03:35:05 +0000

Please continue to preserve and try to save as much and as many of those wonderful old cemeteries as possible. My grandfather, grandmother and Aunt are buried in the old Muscogee Cemetery. It has been one of the greatest joys in my life to be able to visit them. It is hard for me to understand how anyone one could deliberately destroy places that are so precious and once destroyed are gone forever. If I lived closer I’d be very involved .

By: Rev. Gene

Rev. Gene — Tue, 17 May 2016 02:04:52 +0000

Jacqueline Freisinger, The Older Black Cemetery… This cemetery is on land owned by RMS bought from IP several years ago and is located south of the “McDavid” sawmill that is located north of the cemetery. The entrance to this area is across from the unpaved, Pine Barren Road……

… This is the on that I am speacking of that 16 yrs ago the cut and planted new pines on. I searched for two days and could not Locate it after this???

Before this was done there had been a Forest fire break cut through the middle of the graves. Sad that we would Lose Cemeteries as Generations pass we tend to forget. My Family helped to restore a Historic Cemetery and now over-sees it’s maintenance. (Not an easy task.) If anyone know the exact Location of this one, I would like to help restore it. The Old Black Cemetery @ Pine Barren Road…

By: Brenda Gayle Palensky

Brenda Gayle Palensky — Tue, 17 May 2016 00:01:25 +0000

I am so excited about this finding the lost part of the old cemetery . Many years ago I got involved with the Pensacola Historical Society and went out to the one round cemetery and we did some cleaning of the grave stone and clearing always overgrowth. I know there was supposed to be more to it out in the woods but because of snakes my daughter and my husband and I never ventured very far out in the woods. I know people had destroyed. Some of the monuments and we found all kinds of trash. Just heart breaking how disrespectful people could be. We moved over to SR County and I haven’t been out to the old cemetery in 14 years maybe. I’m just so happy your cleaning it up and taking care of it. Can’t wait to see how it goes. I heard there was a old black cemetery out in the woods. I know that there was a town called Muscogee at one time and it was a timber or sawmill business. I have some old pix from back then. I guess if you go to the Pensacola Historical Society and look for Old Muscogee you can see info.. So happy! BGP.