Pauline Hoover wrote: > > I am looking for the location of, Hickory Shade Cemetery. > It is said to be the final resting place off my great-grandfather, John > Willaim Riley. <snip> Pauline -- I don't find a Hickory Shade Cemetery in Anderson or any of the neighboring counties, but there is a Hickory Grove Cemetery in Mercer County, also known as the Overstreet Family Graveyard. It was last read in 1965 and was described then as being located on Tom Champion's farm on the Kirkwood and Ballard Road (northwest Mercer County). The 1965 listing didn't show any Riley graves, but it might not have been a complete listing either. Birchell Coslow -- http://members.aol.com/cbc174/anderson.htm http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/FamilyAssoc/Coslow http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/FamilyAssoc/Ross