This is the reason my GGGGrandfather Rev. John TATE went to the area..However he was from TN. If you should ever run into information about him and/or his family I would love to know what it is !! He is buried in the Old Pilot Grove Cemetery. My husband and I were in the area last year, and your right..There isn't much there either. However standing in the New Pilot Grove Cemetery you look out and see beautiful trees etc. Old Pilot Grove is just to the left at the end of a very short dirt driveway. Thank you, Rebecca In a message dated 7/5/02 10:41:40 AM Central Daylight Time, hawkins@texoma.net writes: > It had some interesting folks. The Yankees I mentioned were from a > train (locomotive not wagon) load of them who came to the Orangville > area to build a Presbyterian community. They bought up most of the > available lands, created the stores and so on. > Their burials are over in Valley Creek north of Leonard as they bought > from where Orangville to Valley Creek and built their churches in both > places. I will be buying a film soon that covers the Orangeville > Presbterian Church Records and plan to abstract the records from it. > That is a period if I recall just about the turn of 1900. No churches > are there today