Over the last half century, the site has suffered from neglect, intentional vandalism, and aborted efforts at redevelopment, leaving the nearly six-acre parcel overgrown with brush and pines and marked by open graves and toppled monuments. With as many as 2,000 burials, the cemetery, even in its current condition, memorializes the lives and struggles of an African American community during a period of monumental political, social, and cultural change.
No one seems to have been buried in the cemetery since the 1960s. Fallen leaves and tree limbs cover the ground. In collaboration with the Okefenokee Heritage Center and the Black Heritage Committee, the Red Hill Cemetery Project seeks to identify and record the history of the gravesites, especially the ones that are marked, before the often-neglected voices fall irretrievably silent. If you are a surviving family member, or know of any who are relatives of the marked gravesites, please contact David Sheffler at david.sheffler@unf.edu.
Note: The data on this site is constantly being updated and amended. Additional names and grave markers will be added as we gather the information.
John H Brown
Died: Octo 11, 1944
Burney L. Cooper Jr.
Born: December 3, 1942
Died: February 3, 1943
Mrs. Bula Copper [Beulah Cooper]
Born: 1896 [Estimated]
Died: December 15, 1947
Mr. T L Copper [Telford Cooper]
Born: January 11, 1887 [Estimated]
Died: August 25, 1934
Gravesites of Mr. Telford L. Cooper and Mrs. Beulah Cooper (grave marker details shown above), the last gravesites in Red Hill Cemetery that were cared for by family members.
In Memory Of
Wash Edwards
Everett [First Name Covered]
Died: Mar 3 1954
![[First Name Missing] Everett Grave Marker](https://history.domains.unf.edu/redhillcemetery/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/EVERETT-IMG_3402-scaled.jpg)
Louisa Everett
Died: Oct 27 ????
Mamee Faison
Dan Gillion
Georgia
PVT. 516 ENGPS
Died: January 24, 1944
Ruby L. Love
Born: July 30, 1896
Died: August 27, 1915
Asleep in Jesus
John O Myles
Georgia
GT
315 SERV BN OMC
Died: December 7, 1936
Julius Nunn
Georgia
PFC OMC
World War I
Born: July 29, 1889
Died: August 22, 1951
Mrs. Beulah Smith
Died: Aug – 5, 1946
Sampson Smith
Georgia
PVT
821 CO TRANS CORPS
Died: December 26, 1932
Jesse Sumner
Born October 29, 1887
Died: Sept. 1919
Elbert Thomas
Georgia
P.V.T. 1CL.
514 ENGRS
Died: June 4, 1933
Lee Walker
Georgia
PVT
516 Engineers
World War I
Died: April 10, 1950
Mrs. N. Walker
Died: April 18, 19?? (1917?)
April 1849 ?? April 1949
Sam Young
Died: May 10, 1940
Born: – 1848
William Zackery
Georgia
PVT U S ARMY
Born: March 1, 1896
Died: October 29, 1944
