Milton Valley Cemetery

Milton Valley Cemetery. . ORIGINAL STOCKHOLDERS: T.T. Brown, Coon Reed, George Blair, Samuel Robertson, Frank Randolph, Robert Hall, Howard Coxen, London Mitchell, George Tokus, Emanuel Blackburn, Joseph Thornley, Joseph Webb, Edmund Jackson, Thomas Laws Jr., Jerry Williams, Lee Moore, George Harris, Peter French, George Carter, Taylor Thornton, Jacob Strother, James Thompson, James Carter, Emily Chareo, Nelson Reed, Charles Laws, Lee Moore, Jane Thomas, Aaron Fields, Adam Fields, Bushrod Blackburn, Albert Lightfoot, R. Bundy, L.G.W. Brown, D. L. Gibson, Webster Young, Charles Myers, Thomas Page, Thomas, N. Blackburn, James Laws, Richard Lewis, and Prestley Jenkins. , Milton Valley Cemetery was established in 1874 on three acres purchased from the E. G. Hebb family on land that was once part of the adjacent Milton Valley Farm. One of several African-American cemeteries in Clarke County, Milton Valley contains the remains of a Civil War soldier, soldiers who served in the Spanish-American War, and many who died enslaved and were buried without identification. , Thomas Laws, an enslaved man who acted as a spy for Union General Sheridan, is buried in the cemetery as are Rev. Edward T. Johnson and Mr. Raymond Ratcliffe, former principals of Johnson-Williams High School.