Oak Grove Cemetery is a historic place of

burial Burial, also known as interment or inhumation, is a method of final disposition whereby a dead body is placed into the ground, sometimes with objects. This is usually accomplished by excavating a pit or trench, placing the deceased and objec ...

located in Americus, Sumter County, Georgia, U.S.. It is one of the contributing properties for the

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, since the boundary increased in 1979. With

History

The Oak Grove Cemetery was founded in 1856, and is operated by the city of Americus. The property's first was purchased from local physician Dr. Albert Rees. In 1880, the 129 bodies of Confederate soldiers were moved from Andersonville to Americus and placed in Oak Grove Cemetery. It contains the burial for 129 veterans of the Confederate States Army, of which 45 of the burials are "unknown". Ladies' Memorial Association of Americus added a Confederate memorial statue in 1899. It also contains a small section for

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veterans. In 2024, some gravestones from the 19th-century at Oak Grove Cemetery were vandalized.

Notable internments

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(1918–2009) judge, 72nd

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, served under

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* Dr. George F. Cooper (1825–1882), physician, Baptist minister, and founder of the public school system in Americus * Joel Crawford (1783–1858), U.S. Congressman *

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(1845–1896), English-born American politician, U.S. Congressman * Charles Robert Crisp (1870–1937), U.S. Congressman * Allen Sherrod Cutts (1826–1896), military leader, colonel of artillery of the

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, farmer, and politician *

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Oak Grove Cemetery
on Find a Grave {{Authority control Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in Georgia (U.S. state)

History

Notable internments

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