Major Joel Crawford was buried in Americus, GA

Oak Grove Cemetery - Americus, Georgia




Charles F. Crisp ... Born in England, Confederate Soldier, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, first Democratic Southern Speaker after the Civil War.


Allen Fort





Colonel Samuel H. Hawkins ... Convederate Cavalry officer. Founder of the Savannah/Americus/Montgomery Railroad. city of Cordele was named for his wife, who was a family member of one of the signors of the Declaration of Independence.




This funeral bell was used to toll mourners to funerals, rung by the cemetery sexton from 1850s to 1920s.
Dr. George F. Cooper ... Honor Graduate of University of Philadelphia Medical School, Chief Surgeon of General A.R. Lawton's Division of Confederate Army during famed Battle of Atlanta.




Mary Elizabeth Myrick Daniels ... One of the founders of the Phi Mu fraternity, Wesleyan College 1852.


Major Joel Crawford, Brother of William Harris Crawford, Secretary of the Treasury and Ambassador to France under President James Monroe



A Noted Indian Fighter ... Francis M. Coker President of the Bank of the State of Georgia, reputed to be the richest man in Georgia when he died with a $5 million estate.



The Sexton's Office was built in 1900 and restored to its original state in 2001. In 2003, 26 fences have been replaced or refurbished, 363 grave sites have been preserved and 156 different southern Camellias have been planted throughout the cemetery.




Is he really buried with his horse?


This fish pond was built in 1880 in the Trifoliate design which portrays the Trinity.