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Patricia, I'm glad I could help. Please don't hesitate to ask if I can help further. I "know" a lot of the folks buried at Orion, in that they tie into my family history in one way or another. My grandmother Hattie Batchelor was born at Orion, and her Batchelor and Ryan families have been buried there for a number of generations. She married Wm. Z. Simpson, who is also buried there, with his mother, sisters, and their families.
Yes, Orion Cemetery is connected to Orion Missionary Baptist Church. I believe the church was founded in 1860 at the home of George Weaver on land donated by John Henry. When I was young, we went each summer on the second Sunday of June to a homecoming at the Orion Church. There was a dinner on the ground outside the old white-frame church, under oak trees in front of the church.
When my grandmother died in 1968, we began to lose our ties to the church, and so I don't know if it continues this tradition or not. The weekend before the homecoming was, as well as I recall, a graveyard-working weekend in the cemetery, when families cleaned up and decorate their family graves.
The little white frame church that I remember from my childhood, which dated to the period after 1860, is now gone and a large brick church has replaced it. I also remember a small one-room white frame schoolhouse beside the church, which was where my grandmother and her siblings went to school. When we visited the church, we children would play in the schoolhouse.
There is a cemetery association which takes donations to maintain the cemetery (and it's very well-kept).
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