> Cemetery: Old Methodist Cemetery (Oakview Cemetery) near a mill i

n > Camilla, Georgia. I visited it in 1982 and it was overgrown with vines. My

> great grandfather Alexander Rivers is buried there.

> Other

: > Sign: Yes

> Street: the cemetery is behind a factory or saw mil

l > City: Camilla, Georgia

> Township

> County: Mitchell County, Georgia

> State: Georgia

> Nation: USA

> Zip

: > lat_ns: N

> lat_h:

> lat_mmss:

> long_ew: W

> long_h:

> long_mmss:

> Status: Abandoned

> Size: Medium

> Directions:

> Type: Road-public

> Location: Urban

> Terrain: Level

> Watersource: No

> Features: overgrown with vines

> Property: Public

> Access: Open

> Enclosure: None

> Gate: Locks

> Established: Before 1890

> Gravestones

: > Oldest:

> Newest

: > Removed: Unknown

> Relocated: Unsure

> Repairs: Unsure

> Methods: Adhesives

> Restoration: Unsure

> Association: Unsure

> Records: Unsure

> Inventory: Unsure

> Availability:

> Landscaping: Unsure

> Paths: Unsure

> Trees: Unsure

> Crypts: No

> Fencing: No

> Brickwork: No

> Ironwork: No

> Sculpture: No

> Fountains: No

> Roads: No

> Buildings: Unsure

> Cement: Yes

> Granite: Yes

> Marble: Yes

> Native: Yes

> Slate: Yes

> Others: Yes

> Wood: Yes

> Materials: Yes

> Architectural: Yes

> Angels: Yes

> Draperies: Yes

> Fraternal: Yes

> Hands: Yes

> Lambs: Yes

> Monograms: Yes

> Plants: Yes

> Photos: Yes

> Religious: Yes

> Scrollwork: Yes

> Urns: Yes

> Carvings: Yes

> Condition: Cemetery vandalized

> Unmarked: Yes

> Broken: Yes

> Toppled: Yes

> Disintegrating: Yes

> Buried: Yes

> Weather: Yes

> Pollution: Yes

> Vandalized: Yes

> Report: No

> VA1:

> VA2:

> VA3:

> VA4:

> VA5: Graves-Desecrated

> Overgrowth:

> Overgrowth1:

> Overgrowth2:

> Overgrowth3:

> Overgrowth4: Gravestones-Damaging

> GroundCover: Yes

> Moss

: > Vines: Yes

> Drainage: Good

> Problem1:

> Problem2: Apathy

> Owner: Cemetery

> Use: Industrial

> Bordering: Industrial

> Change: Smaller

> Reason: Commercial

> Visited: Unknown

> Archeology: Unknown

> Habitat: Yes

> Contacted:

> Name: Doris Rivers-Martinson

> Email: drmartinson@juno.com

> Date: August 31, 2005

> > Surnames: > > Alexander Archillus Rivers born @ 1823 and > died April 6, 1890, Mitchell Co. GA. The cemetery was once called the Old > Methodist Cemetery and later named Oakview. > > Other_Information: > > I am concerned that the cemetery no long exists. It was in poor condition > in 1982. > >

Support: > >

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