The Mars Hill Cemetery is north of Adamsville and near the Leapwood Community. It is a BIG cemetery about 6 miles north of Adamsville on Highway 224. (Highway 224 is also known as the Leapwood-Enville Road.) You will pass the Leapwood Community. The cemetery is on the east side of the highway and has two entrances. If coming from the north on Highway 224 from Enville, Mars Hill Cemetery is about a mile south of the turn off for Hardin's Graveyard Cemetery.

At the north end of the cemetery is where the old Macedonia Primitive Baptist Church once stood. It has been torn down for many years and graves now rest where the foundation of the building once stood. My ancestor, William Ashley Harris (1849-1916), is buried just east of where the church once stood. Another church [Church of Christ??] is now standing on the south end of the cemetery just inside the south entrance.

The earliest burials in this cemetery date to the 1870s. Reportedly the oldest burial is that of an Indian who is buried in an unmarked grave at the southern part of the cemetery just east of where my ancestor Elias B. Sewell (1799-1880) is buried.

Glenn Gohr - [email protected]