HistoryThe original Yorkville Cemetery was in the back of the Yorkville Methodist Church, established in 1874 through the generous gift of brothers Abraham and E. L. York. In 1953 Mrs. W. A. Pool sold the land for the Yorkville Baptist Church. The back part of that property was used for a cemetery and borders the Yorkville Methodist Church Cemetery. There are approximately 1240 burials in the Yorkville Cemetery that have names attached to them, and about another 160 possible sites are marked with field stones or are mounds of dirt. While every person buried in the Yorkville Cemetery is loved and special, there are some extremely well known people buried there. The parents of the founders of Yorkville, Josiah York and Sarah Blake York, are buried at Yorkville Cemetery. In addition, the victim of the most heinous murder ever committed in Paulding County, Hattie Brown, is buried at Yorkville Cemetery, as are her brothers Penson and Worth Brown, who ambushed and killed her husband Harry Howe. Howe killed Hattie, then left her body to be eaten by wild animals. |