Hill Cemetery is an old family cemetery located on what was once the family property in the Ewing and Clay Road area in Powder Springs. It is located off of Ewing Road in the woods behind a large subdivision. The actual address of the Cemetery is 2758 Dahlonega Trail, Powder Springs, GA.

It is a large cemetery that is contained within a chain link fence and has only one marked grave, that of Catherine Barnwell Hill. Her son, William Hill, placed the marker here.

This cemetery has 12 graves marked by fieldstones, one grave covered in stones and one marked footstone. In the back of the cemetery are several depressions indicating other graves. There may be other graves with flat markers under the covering of leaf and limb clutter. It is not known who else is buried here other than Catherine Barnwell Hill.

A sign is placed outside the fenced cemetery that reads “Adopt-A- Cemetery, Cemetery Preservation, Hill Cemetery, Cobb County Juvenile Court’. It is suggested that if you wish to visit Catherine’s tombstone, you should contact the Cobb County Juvenile Court. There is a small drive that leads up to the cemetery.

The Hill Cemetery has been preserved as a historic cemetery that
predates the Civil War.

Catherine Barnwell Hill was born on June 4, 1800 and died on October 16, 1841. She married John Hill on February 20, 1823. The other graves may be family members, friends and possibly some of their children.

Catherine and John had at least two children to reach adulthood. William H. Hill and Robert Alexander Hill. Both served as Privates in the Confederate Army. William in 2 nd Co F 1 st GA Infantry and Robert in Co F 16 th ALA Inf.. Robert was wounded at the Battle of Shiloh.

John Hill was born on May13, 1795 and died on February 21, 1870. He apparently was living in Alabama at the time since he is buried in Shipman Cemetery, Double Springs, Winston Co., Alabama.

Robert Alexander Hill was born on July 8, 1838 and died on June 17, 1923. In 1868 he married Sarah Magaret Lane Hill (1843-1895). He is buried in Corinth Cemetery in Winston County, Alabama.

William M. Hill was born on November 17, 1826 and died on November 20, 1906. Around 1850 he married Elizabeth Mary Ann Matthews Hill (1835 1921). William is buried in the Powder Springs Methodist Cemetery.

This information comes from www.findagrave.com. Directions to the cemetery may also be found there.

Thanks goes to a family member of a long time resident of the area, who has personal knowledge of Hill Cemetery since their childhood, brought the cemetery to the Historical Society’s attention.