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A little history:
Randolph
Casey Jolliff (1818-1900) donated the land for Jolliff Cemetery. It looks
like the earliest burials at Jolliff Cemetery were 2 children of
John
F. (1843-1920) & Cynthia French in 1874 & 1878. [There has been
some question as to whether it was indeed Randolph C. Jolliff who donated
the land for the cemetery. But since Randolph bought the land in 1865 and
sold the rest in 1879, I think we can safely say that he did donate the land.]
There may actually have been earlier burials. There are several unmarked
headstones that cannot be identified.
Uncle
Joe Willard was the first
Secretary-Treasurer that can be remembered. (He was Mary Jo Freeman great-grandpa.]
He was assisted by
Nova
Holmes and he served until 1962.
Gladys Baty was Secretary-Treasurer in 1962-63.
Murielene (Dunkin) VonAllmen has served since 1964.
Jolliff Cemetery trustees (below): Dennis VonAllmen, Bobby VonAllmen,
Billy Ralph Stevens. (This is an old picture, Billy Ralph is now deceased.)
Secretary-Treasurer (below),
Murielene
VonAllmen
Murielene has held this position since 1964!
The following is a list of those known to have served on the cemetery
committee:
Aaron
Jolliff, Beulah Jolliff,
Mable
Bales, Earl Russell,
Raymon
VonAllmen,
Elmer
Baty, Nova Holmes,
Gene
Andrews,
Louie
Redburn,
Allen
Smoot,
Carl
Huddleston, Nora Jolliff, Veleria Moore, Joe Huddleston,
Floyd
Judd,
Ralph
Jolliff, Dennis VonAllmen, Bobby VonAllmen, Billy Ralph Stevens.
At one time
George
Jolliff would help families pick out grave site. He lived nearby.
Families would go to the cemetery and have "workings," which would include
mowing, cleaning and raking leafs. Sometimes there would be a fire
set to clean off the cemetery.
There appears to have been a Jolliff Baptist Church in one of the buildings
there. It may have been across the road. In an old newspaper
obituary from 1945 there was mention of attending the Jolliff Baptist Church
in the vicinity. Or maybe the church met in the school house.
The old Jolliff School which sat beside the cemetery (about where the
parking lot is now) was sold at auction April 28, 1962. The building and
school desks were sold to Ralph Hargis for $132. Some trees around
the cemetery were cut down and sold to
Aaron
Jolliff for $5. The cemetery lawn mower was sold to Arthur Rowe
for $5.
Joe Huddleston and Nora Jolliff were instrumental in starting the trust
fund in May 26, 1973.
Charles and
Vesta
Thompson donated the west one acre to the cemetery in 1989.
Other Links:
Mary Jo Freeman's genealogy
website.
If you would like to check my database
to see if the information on your family is correct, go to my ancestor
file then search for the name of one of your ancestors. (Only those born
before 1930 or no longer living are listed by name. I have names of the
living, but they are not displayed in the online database.) Please
let me know if there are any corrections or additions!!
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