Slocomb in Geneva County, Alabama — The American South (East South Central)

Pleasant Hill Baptist Church Cemetery

Geneva County

Photographed by Tim Fillmon, December 27, 2025

1. Pleasant Hill Baptist Church Cemetery Marker

Inscription.
Pleasant Hill Baptist Church Cemetery is the final resting place to more than 1500 members of the community, with the earliest dating from 1887. The cemetery also contains about 100 unmarked graves. The cemetery is home to veterans from WWI, WWII, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War as well as at least one Confederate soldier, John W. Hemby. Mr. Hemby served in Company E. 25th Georgia Infantry, and died on September 18, 1923. The first Mayor of Slocomb and founder of the Slocomb First Baptist Church, Reverend General Jackson Canant, is also laid to rest here. In the 1980s, the city purchased land from the church to create an official city cemetery next to the church cemetery.

Listed in the Alabama Historic Cemetery Register on December 23, 2024

Erected 2025 by The City of Slocomb.

Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Religion & Religious Structures. A significant historical year for this entry is 1887.

Location. 31° 6.567′ N, 85° 37.044′ W. Marker is in Slocomb, Alabama, in Geneva County. It is on Pleasent Hill Road 0.1 miles south of Airport Road (County Route 85), on the left when traveling north. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 1563 Pleasent Hill Rd, Slocomb AL 36375, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in the American South,

specifically in the Deep South,

and in the Wiregrass.

Globally, it is in North America,

a Gulf of Mexico state,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture,

one of the Confederate States of America,

and the Antebellum South.

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At least 8 other markers are within 11 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: "Old Town Slocomb" (approx. 1.4 miles away); Countyline Missionary Baptist Church (approx. 2 miles away); a different marker also named Countyline Missionary Baptist Church (approx. 2 miles away); Aus-Kel Springs (approx. 2.8 miles away); Earliest Church In Hartford (approx. 3.1 miles away); Town of Taylor, Alabama (approx. 9½ miles away); 1840's Split Log Cabin (approx. 10.9 miles away); Providence Baptist Church (approx. 11 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Slocomb.

Photographed by Tim Fillmon, December 27, 2025

2. Pleasant Hill Baptist Church Cemetery Marker

Credits. This page was last revised on June 15, 2026. It was originally submitted on December 27, 2025, by Tim Fillmon of Webster, Florida. This page has been viewed 103 times since then and 80 times this year. Last updated on June 14, 2026, by Jimmy Emerson of Dalton, Georgia. Photos: 1. submitted on December 27, 2025, by Tim Fillmon of Webster, Florida. 2. submitted on December 28, 2025, by Tim Fillmon of Webster, Florida. • Devry Becker Jones was the editor who published this page.