Oak Hill Cemetery, Newnan, Georgia

Location: Newman, Coweta County, Georgia
Surnames/tags: Cemeteries Georgia

This page is part of the Georgia Cemeteries Team.

See the Oak Hill Cemetery, Newnan, Georgia for people buried in this cemetery.

See the Oak Hill CONFEDERATE Cemetery, Newnan, Georgia for people buried within Section 21 of this cemetery.

Cemetery name: Oak Hill Cemetery AND Oak Hill Confederate Cemetery

Address: Jefferson Street, Newnan, Georgia 30264

GPS Coordinates: GPS Coordinates: 33.3853, -84,7969

Contents 1 About 2 Location 3 History 4 Section 21 5 Notable Georgians Buried Here 6 Sources

About

This free space page for Oak Hill Cemetery is part of WikiTree's Georgia Cemeteries Project. It is being developed to document the life and times of our ancestors who are interred there. This page is part of the Georgia Cemeteries Team.

Oak Hill Cemetery is a large cemetery with more than 11,000 grave sites. It covers about 60 acres. There is a Presbyterian Section on the south side of Jefferson Street. This section is for the Newnan First Presbyterian Church which was established in 1828. There is also a Confederate Section where there are 269 Confederate soldiers and 2 Revolutionary War soldiers buried.

See the Oak Hill Cemetery, Newnan, Georgia page for people buried in this cemetery.

Location

Cemetery name: Oak Hill Cemetery

Address: Jefferson Street, Newnan, Georgia 30264

GPS Coordinates: :33.3853, -84,7969

History

The Oak Hill Cemetery dates back to 1833. It began as a small cemetery for Newnan's Baptist church about five years after Newnan was established. A year later the Presbyterian church added a cemetery. Both of these churches are gone leaving a 60 acre community cemetery. It is a beautiful and well maintained cemetery that the citizens are quite proud of. The Newnan-Coweta Historical Society offers tours of the cemetery.

Section 21

Oak Hill Confederate Cemetery is Section 21 within the Oak Hill Cemetery located in Newnan, Coweta County, Georgia. The marking and care of the graves began in 1868 by the Ladies Memorial Association of Newnan, and later continued by the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Here are buried 268 Confederate Soldiers most of whom died of wounds or disease in the several Confederate hospitals located in Newnan. Some were killed in the battle fought south of here, July 30, 1864.

THIS SECTION HAS A COMPLETELY SEPARATE CATEGORY PAGE: See the Oak Hill CONFEDERATE Cemetery, Newnan, Georgia for people buried within Section 21 of this cemetery.

Notable Georgians Buried Here

• Ellis Gibbs Arnall: Attorney General and 69th Governor of Georgia
• William Yates Atkinson: 55th Governor of Georgia
• Mary Caroline Freeman: LTC in Women's Army and 1st woman bank director.

Sources

• Oak Hill Cemetery
• Oak Hill Find A Grave Website
• Oak Hill Confederate Cemetery Find A Grave Website