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Submitted by Pat Stevens IV
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The Stevens Family Cemetery, Oglethorpe Co., Georgia
(Posted with permission from Pat Stevens)

The Stevens Cemetery is in the trees to the west of State Highway 77 about three miles out of Bairdstown on the way to Maxeys.
The magnolias spanning and arching over the stones at Oak Hill were planted by Martha Brooks Stevens in about 1850, and were part of a larger formal garden she tended in the area now where the cemetery lies. To the left of the cemetery as you face the front gate is a line of pecan trees she planted in about 1880. Pat Jr., then about six, recalls dropping the seeds in the holes she measured out and dug with the heel of her shoe.
There are a number of memorial stones in the cemetery. Some are only the stones, moved to protect them from the older cemetery at Cherry Hill across the highway in about 1940. These stones were placed there-- across the road, long after the deaths of some of the people they note, and erected by Patrick Stevens about 1859.
Other stones were placed at Oak Hill, among them one memorializing General John Stewart, who was buried at Cherry Hill in 1829, although the stone incorrectly notes his death as 1830. (See contemporary obituaries, viz: Macon, Milledgeville, and Augusta papers.)
Some stones mark the graves of those beneath them. These are those after about 1878.

Those buried there:
Mary Louise Stevens..............(1857-1874)
Mrs. Permelia S. Perkins..............( -1879)
Isabella Irvin Stevens..............(1854-1879)
Dr. Tucker Irvin Stevens......... (1862-1891)
Capt. Patrick M. Stevens..........(1823-1905)
Martha Brookes Stevens..........(1830-1905)
Stewart F. Stevens..................(1864-1929)
I. L. B. Stevens........................(1861-1930)
John M. Stevens......................(1859-1934)
Pat M. Stevens, Jr...................(1874-1966)
Hattie Mitchell Stevens............(1884-1976)
Robert M. Stevens, Sr..............(1912-1991)

Those marked there, and buried across the road:

Sacred to the Memory of
James L. Stevens
was born 1826
and lived to border into manhood
and then in all the pride
of youthful beauty and promise,
died, 1845.
Jimmie, you are not forgotten. PMS

In memory of John Stewart Stevens
Was born Sept. 8th 1820
Died 1827
On the same day with his mother
Erected by P. M. Stevens

Sacred to the memory of
Maj. John M. Stevens
born in Vir. 1784
Died May 12th 1858
By his kindness, generosity and
integrity of character
he endeared himself to
a large circle of friends.
Erected to his memory by P. M. Stevens

Sacred to the memory of
Sarah Floyd Stevens
wife of Maj. J. M. Stevens
and daughter of
Genl. John and Mourning Stewart
Died 1827
She was a devoted member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church
and by sweetness and gentleness
of character adorned the faith which
she professed.
Erected to her memory by P. M. Stevens

John Stewart
Capt., Va. Tr. 1776-1783
Gen., Ga. Tr. 1812-1814
1760-1830
Lies 1/4 mile N.70deg E

Mourning Floyd Stewart
Wife of
John Stewart
Dau. of John & Matilda Burford Floyd
1769-1847