If you’ve traveled Pio Nono Road in Macon, you likely have noticed the entrance consisting of three arches leading into a cemetery. At first glance, one would assume it serves as the entrance for one cemetery, but there are two: Mosley Cemetery and Jesus Mission of Love Holiness Church Cemetery. There is a third cemetery, but it is on the other side of the church.
The entrance was designed and built by Macon brick mason and general contractor Bartholomew Duhart. Duhart created the arches to honor his parents, Ruel and Annie, who are buried in Mosley Cemetery.
I am uncertain when Mosley Cemetery began. The earliest obituary for Mosley Cemetery is 1933. While I cannot find proof, but I suspect it was either founded by or named for Ruth Hartley Mosley. Mosley was a nurse and helped run her husband’s funeral home. She was well-known around Macon and was very involved in the community.
The Unionville Missionary Baptist Church began in 1865. Its worship home was on Pio Nono until they relocated. The Jesus Mission of Love Church took over the church and cemetery.
While the cemeteries are officially separate, the landscape of the two cemeteries doesn’t delineate from one to the other.
