This map shows the GPS Coordinates of the Holt Cemetery #1. GPS is also known as the Latitude and Longitude location as at N 34.82771 W -86.90055. Alternate Location: Northwest quarter of Section 36, Township 2S, Range 4W on the west side (or north) of old Highway 31 (Hwy 251).
From Athens travel out Hwy 31 and turn right on Hwy 251 aka old Hwy 31. Follow that for about 3 miles and when you enter the Piney Creek area and just before dropping into the Piney Creek Valley look left for a field road just past the next to the last house which goes by the right side of that next to last house into the woodland. Tricky here because the last house is into the woods and cannot be seen from this position. Actually on the left when you turn in you should be able to see two more driveways ahead. The last residential driveway and the road into the Leslie Cemetery, then the creek bridge is next. Follow the turned in field road for about 200 yards or about a tenth of a mile and before the road starts to drop down the hill park your vehicle and walk to your right (east) into the woods about 30 feet and look for the standing stones which are the easiest ones to see. Another indicator is when drive down the field road you will pass out of the pine woodland into the hardwood trees. Then the cemetery is about fifty feet further along and into the woods on your right about 30 feet. The two Scott box tombs are first then north of that is the Crawford stone then the next stone north is the Jesse Holt monument, then the James Allen stone, then the large unmarked tomb for what appears to be multiple graves with bricks stacked at the east and a large 8 inch (not carved) lime slab at the foot. Of course there are grave sinks all along the way out into the area east of there.
The aerial view above shows the cemetery located beside the road and about the distance shown from the field road. Known graves are lined up along inside that rectangle. It is known that a slave graveyard exist here somewhere, but unless it was connected to the Leslie (African American) Cemetery about 100 feet to the east of here I did not located it. but the Leslie Cemetery has many grave sinks in the cemetery and out into the woodland east of there.
Maps from ACME Mapper 2.0, MS Streets & Trips & Google modified for this site by C. Wayne Austin 19 Feb 2015.
