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The cemetery often known as Lone Oak Cemetery had
its name derived from when there was only one oak tree by a log cabin
which was used for both a church and school. At that given time there was
a very small graveyard near this structure. The cabin was replaced by a
brush arbor which was built in its place in 1858 perhaps no bigger then a
small room for a circuit rider visit.
The first burial known to lonesome Oak was a woman named Minerva Howell in 1867 the cemetery however appears alot older since the graveyard resided next to the log cabin beforehand. Many of the stones are extremely tipped, old, weathered, illegible etc unlike most cemeteries the historical section is very large. At one time the blacks and whites were buried here only later for all the blacks to be dug up and moved to a nearby cemetery which we were unable to find. The area the cemetery sits in is quite run down its not in a nice area of town either. Leesburg has alot of sad energy to it people are rude, trouble causers, etc so I can imagine some of the ghost here are as lonesome as the residents. One monument that stands out and we came across the plaque of is a headstone with the name of James Lee Hux who was the police chief of Leesburg in 1924. He was tipped off that a moonshine operation was occurring in the local swamps and set off on foot to locate it. When he found it a moonshiner named Willie Stalnaker took the shotgun to the back of his head and killed Hux instantly. The body was found later the next day in a shack and the moonshiner was sentenced to life. We have a photograph of the Hux Grave on this page the one with the flowers and wrought iron. Its stories like these that make you want to stroll around such a historical cemetery. You can feel so many different ghost moving around, watching etc it truly is an amazing place. © By Rick-LordOfThyNight
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