Blassingame Fields Cemetery
Description: Piedmont National Wildlife Refuge
Location: From the intersection of the Round Oak/Juliette Rd and the Ocmulgee River Bridge travel approx. 4 miles to a foot travel road on the left. This foot travel road is ½ mile past the intersection of the Jarrell Plantation Rd. You will see an old house site over grown with wisteria. Follow the foot travel road remaining on the main route as there are several roads that turn off to the left. The cemetery is located approx. 1.3 miles off the Round Oak/Juliette Rd. on the right side of the foot travel road. There are approx. fifty graves, most of which are marked with only field stone.

GPS coordinates in degrees only form: 33.10886° N X 83.73404° W
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Dist. 12 Land Lot 153
Date surveyed: Apr 14, 2005
Cemetery Status: Inactive


Other info: The only marked grave is very hard to read. According to refuge technicians, a Mrs. Karen McMichael stated that this may possibly be the John Beeland Cemetery although at this point that has not been determined.

Indexer(s) or Contributor(s): Earl Colvin

List of Graves

Pers No.NameBirthDeathInscription and NotesService
1James Jackson  1929Name and date difficult to read. This is our best guess. 
2    Unmarked graves: Approx. 50 graves most marked by a fieldstone. 

 

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