Oaks Hill Cemetery, Alcorn County, MS

05/13/2025

05/12/2025

Saturday, May 10, 2025, at the Oaks Hill Cemetery. It is rare that all five Directors can get together, so we took this rare opportunity to get a group photo (and right before the rain started).
From Left to Right:
Jack Martin
Hugh Coleman
Keith Conaway
David Rainey, and
Benny Rainey.
We had an EXCELLENT turn-out of folks to visit with us for the Appreciation Day event. Our appreciation to all Directors doing their part to bring it all together and making it a success. The food was DELICIOUS!

02/22/2025

Oaks Hill Cemetery, Inc.
ANNUAL CLEANING OF THE CEMETERY PROPERTY

Family, Friends, and Donors:

During the annual meeting of the Directors of the Corporation on January 14, 2024, we wanted to inform you of a REVISED policy regarding the maintenance of the cemetery property.

In an effort to get ready for the mowing of the cemetery property each year, we, the Directors of the Corporation, have initiated a REVISED maintenance and cleaning policy regarding ITEMS THAT ARE LYING ON THE GROUND.

Those items are, but not limited to, real flowers, plastic flowers, trinkets, toys, vases, jars, solar devices, pinwheels, wind chimes, and any other type of decorative memorial pieces. American flags and Confederate flags will be kept in place closer to each tombstone that will be less of a hinderance for mowing and weed-eating.

During one designated day every April, it will be necessary to conduct a “cleaning house” day to collect all of these items (especially the sun-bleached plastic flowers) and throw them away into the trash for proper disposal. If during a storm any “clip on” flowers (or other items) sitting atop any headstone are blown off onto the ground, those clip on flowers/items will be discarded and thrown away as well since we will not know which headstone it fell from. This clean-up day will be performed by the Directors and any volunteers.

EXCLUDED from this policy are those granite or stone vases that are already attached to the tombstone/headstone. We will NOT collect or remove any flowers (real or plastic) from those vases because they are not in contact with the ground.

With the cemetery property cleaned by the end of April, you may start fresh with arriving and placing new flowers on tombstones on May 1st of each year, especially during our Appreciation Day event in May (the Saturday before Mother’s Day). A WORD OF CAUTION: If you place new items on the ground before May 1st of each year, it will be considered to be “old” and will be thrown away.

02/22/2025

(NEW INFORMATION):

The directors have been made aware of a contractor who will be available to family members who wish to have grave headstones cleaned. The contractor’s name is Daniel Wooldridge and his phone number where he can be reached is at 662-five eight six-eight five eight three. The price to clean fungus encrusted headstones will vary, approximately $140 for a single headstone and approximately $180 for a double headstone. He also provides the service (price unknown) of re-setting a headstone that has fallen over.

These are services that he provides to families and these services are NOT provided through our cemetery corporation. Please contact Mr. Wooldridge for further details.

02/22/2025

1. It has been noticed that burials (recent and over the past several years) at the cemetery do not have headstones. We encourage the families who have NOT YET placed a headstone for your departed loved one to please do so in the near future. Please preserve the memory of these departed individuals buried at the cemetery. Please do not allow them to be forgotten and lost to time for future generations. Probably since the end of the Civil War, the history of this cemetery property may show that quite a few graves have been forgotten to history without adequate gravestone markers (names and birth/death dates). Those graves are now unknown! It is a friendly reminder for family members to place a headstone for your interred relative when you are able.

2. The cemetery property falls within the bounds of the barbed wire fence and beyond that barbed wire fence is private property belonging to the Smith family. PLEASE DO NOT throw any trash, spent flowers, etc., over the fence onto the Smith family property. Please respect the property rights of our neighbors.

02/22/2025

A reminder that the burial plot fee is $400.00. An approved Gravesite Reservation form is required for each future burial at Oaks Hill Cemetery. If you or your loved ones plan to be buried at Oaks Hill Cemetery, it is extremely important that an approved Gravesite Reservation form be on file with your Board of Directors. In addition, a copy of the Gravesite Reservation form will be given to each person who reserves one or more gravesites. This copy should be presented to the funeral home director when funeral arrangements are being made. Area funeral homes have been made aware of this requirement and required payment.

02/22/2025

OAKS HILL CEMETERY, INC.
Fiscal Year 2024 Financial Statement
From January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2024

INCOME
Donations from individuals $5,065.00
Interest earned from US Treasury Note $2,887.50
Interest earned from Certificate of Deposit (CD) $0.00
TOTAL INCOME $7,952.50

EXPENDITURES
Mowing – (16 mowings @ $200.00 each mowing) $3,200.00
Lowe’s (purchase of new dinner tables) $508.14
United Printing Services (informational fliers for mail-out) $224.70
Mississippi Farm Bureau (Liability Insurance) $261.00
Appreciation Day (Food – Barbeque from Kenny Killough) $200.00
USPS Post Office Box Annual rental renewal $182.00
Cadence Bank Safe Deposit Box Annual Rent Renewal $60.00
TOTAL EXPENSES $4,635.84

02/22/2025

Four of the five corporate directors of the Oaks Hill Cemetery, Inc., at our Annual Meeting on January 5, 2025.

Left to right, Hugh Coleman, Jack Martin, Keith Conaway, and Benny Rainey.

02/22/2025

Four of the five corporate directors in attendance at the cemetery for the Appreciation Day on May 11, 2024, visiting with friends, family, and donors, answering any questions and addressing any concerns.

Left to right, Benny Rainey, Keith Conaway, David Rainey, and Hugh Coleman.

01/26/2024

This photo was taken on May 9, 2015 at our appreciation day event. Left to right is Billy Clyde Burns and Max Butler. Billy Clyde Burns was running for Sheriff that year. It is sad to report that Billy Clyde Burns passed on January 18, 2024 and that Max Butler passed on August 2, 2021. Both men were supporters of the Oaks Hill Cemetery. They will be missed and our sympathies to each family for their loss.

01/15/2024

The annual meeting of the directors of the Oaks Hill Cemetery, Alcorn County, MS - Federal Tax EIN 47-5334645 was held on January 14, 2024. In attendance was, from left to right, Hugh Peyton Coleman (secretary and treasurer), Jack Martin, Benny Rainey, and Keith "Dude" Conaway. David Rainey, President of the Board, joining via cell speakerphone. We discussed various new items and ways to improve the cemetery property. Get ready folks for our annual Appreciation Day to be held on May 11, 2024 at the cemetery property.