This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HKB.2ACI/1646.1 Message Board Post: The New Hope Cemetery is shown on USGS Quadrangle maps and from the intersection of Hwy 310 and Laws Hill road you go south on Laws Hill road towards Old Wyatt for 1 1/2 miles. There is a small drive or road on your left with a locked gate. The cemetery is located 1/4 mile down this drive. Mrs Louise Shaw Clanton recently married Mr J.W. Thomas live by the drive and I believe has a key to the gate or members of the New Hope Church do. Thank you for answering my question. A little insight might be that Alexander Meek, one of the few Revolutionary soldiers buried in this area, and his sons founded a plantation about 1840 between Laws Hill and Chulahoma. It was called Meeks Blackwater Plantation named for the creek that runs thru it. I think Alexander was pretty infirm by this time and it was mainly his sons who had the place. But I am sure they were slave owners and might me the origin of the English name Meak(Meek).