CEMETERY DOCUMENTATION
by
SHERRY S. JOHNSTON
Years ago, when I first started this journey of researching, documenting and writing about cemeteries, I started off with some that were the ‘hard to find’ ones.
These are the cemeteries that have been so well-hidden in the forests of our communities, they’d disappeared from our view; or they were cemeteries that had been inadvertently destroyed by either agricultural or timber practices.
I remember wanting to locate a certain cemetery that had bearing on some of my own family tree, and enlisted the help of some of my ‘cemetery junking’ friends and family members.
Searched many miles for cemeteries
I can’t tell you how often we’ve traveled a certain dirt road in this county in search of this cemetery; or how many miles certain individuals have actually walked in their search; or the many times we’ve looked in historical land records to see if we can find a clue to the actual spot that a certain lady surveyed in 1981.
We’ve asked ourselves many times over, how could the landscape have changed so drastically in such a short time period? Yes, the kudzu grows fast around here, as does the underbrush; the trees grow taller and hide certain features from view; the trees get harvested and no one knows about the cemetery lying hidden underneath and it gets destroyed very quickly.
Every so often, I bring this cemetery back to the forefront of the minds of our readers, hoping against hope that someone will read it and recognize, and remember something to help us in our search.
Families of Old Town and Mt. Union tied together
The families of Old Town and Mt. Union communities were tied together all the way back to their point of origin. Families of Barlow, Congleton, Tolbert, Perdue, Johns, Hyde, Rountree, Adams, Sheffield, Wilson, Jones and others are tied into the cemeteries known as Old Town Cemetery, Mt. Union Cemetery, Rountree Cemetery, Pleasant Grove (aka Shady Grove) Cemetery and the Barlow Cemetery.
Mt. Union Cemetery, Conecuh County, Alabama
Of the above named cemeteries, only two have not been located: Rountree and Barlow—and they may be one and the same; known by different names by different generations or separate burial grounds.
We have a sketchy legal description of the Old Barlow Cemetery—in Township 5 North, Range 12 East—possibly section 13, 24 or 25 somewhere along Lizard Lope or J.P. Howard Road.
In the Death Records on microfilm, I’ve discovered that there could be possibly as many as 10 or more graves—many of these that can’t be found elsewhere could have been laid to rest here.
The only known grave in 1981 was identified as John Barlow, with no dates of birth or death. We know who he was, who his family was— but we’d like to know more—we’d like to know what happened to his burial ground. If we could just get an idea of the exact location, it would help other researchers in their ancestral quest as to family farms, connecting lines, etc
If the cemetery has been destroyed, we need to know that too—there might not be anything we can do about that, but at least, we’d finally know. If you have information, please call us at 251.578.2670 or email me at [email protected]
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I know the location of a Slave cemetery in Tallapoosa county close to Horseshoe Bend Park… Graves are marked with fields stones.
The graves are located on the grounds of a former log church built for Slaves who lived in the area.
I dont think anyone knows about it….would be sad for it to be lost in time.
Jimmy Campbell
There is a small cemetery, in the woods, in the Claud community ( Electric ) . Between a tiny church and the Smith property !!
I am interested in the Claud community and the cemetery…..please E-mail me.
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It’s on Luke Paschal Rd.
I have an older map of Jackson County Al. It shows where all the cemeteries are located. Some are on Wildlife Management land and very hard to get to.
Cemetery near me just fieldstones near martin dam in red hill called Taylor cemetery on my uncles deed and a black cemetery only one marked was Henery Head
How soon they are forgotten sad so many groups could help clean them up
I know Sumter county has several, been a very long time but there was a couple in Gainesville AL.
Your post brings back a funny memory. In 1960 I had been home in Sheffield, Alabama, visiting my family – and was driving back home to Norfolk, Virginia. To make the trip more fun we had our cooler of food and a Coleman camping stove. We would stop in rest areas, etc., to cook our food.
One evening we had driven a long way without finding a place to stop. Then, we saw one picnic table in a small area beside the highway. So, we stopped, set up our Coleman stove and began cooking. Then, I looked around and discovered a small cemetery just behind us.
Because it had taken so long to find the picnic table, by the time we had cooked our dinner it was getting to be dusk – so we set up candles on each end of the picnic table and had a candle light dinner.
Later we laughed at the thought of what people driving by would have thought seeing us eating dinner by candle light in a cemetery. Oh, well, that is what makes life fun – giving folks something to ponder. God bless, Bill
Whenever my friend and I do a day road trip we always picnic in an old cemetery. Shady, quite, relaxing, and interesting.
I have known the location of a cemetery dated in 1700s, a circle of woods all around an in it, Limestone county Ala, if any one interested I can show someone the location I first saw it when o was only 10 yrs of age I’m 65 now it’s still undisturbed as far as I know, only 1/4 mile from 72 highway, rsvp Howard Lee Hill [email protected]
I have known the location of a cemetery dated in 1700s, a circle of woods all around an in it, Limestone county Ala, if any one interested I can show someone the location I first saw it when o was only 10 yrs of age I’m 65 now it’s still undisturbed as far as I know, only 1/4 mile from 72 highway, rsvp Howard Lee Hill
There is a cemetery on the grounds of Camp Ascca near jacksons gap Alabama on lake Martin.
There is a tiny cemetery in Double Springs off Lynn Highway called Blooming Youth. If you don’t know it’s there, you would never find it!
Cemeteries are easily forgotten. I remember going with my grandparents years ago to tend to a cemetery that was nestled back in the woods. I need to ask where it was…
There’s one on double s mountain in Morgan co.
Is the one on double S mountain on Find a grave.com?
Idk. But most of it had been robbed back in the 90s. It’s in the first big curve going up from the rock quarry
Yes it is on find a grave….14 interment so….the name is Pleasant Ridge Cemetery
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&GScid=25556&CRid=25556&pt=Pleasant%20Ridge%20Cemetery&
The old Bibb Graves cemetery is located in Hope Hull, Alabama amongst the weeds and overgrowth in a pasture.
Here you go Gale Hobbs
Me and Peggy.
I am having hard enough time keeping the one up behind my house.
I knew you liked going to or researching old cemeteries.
My husband and I were looking on here and saw your Name and we were curious to know if you are related to our Goggans in Marion County Alabama. We are decendants from Abraham and Permelia Goggans who settled in Marion county in the early 1800’s. They came from South Carolina and originally from Count Cork Ireland. Email me if you know anything about this. Thanks.
Old lawd, get me and Peggy out and she will yell, ‘look, stop.’ Even in Alaska. Made Ronnie miss the bus.
There is an old cemetery off rouse rd{Stouts road }west of Warrior ,it is on private property.I was told it was beside a abandoned road that use to go between Warrior and Dora
Jessica Doles
There is an abandoned cemetery at the end of south Sixth St in Gadsden. Traditionally a black cemetery.
Also an overgrown cemetery in Attalla at about 17th st with stones dating back to the late 1700’s and early 1800’s.
Brittiany Guy Odom
There is an old cemetery on Shannon Road about a half mile off Hwy. 150 in Bessemer . A few graves are still there but most were relocated a few years ago.
There is one on the grounds of the nuclear plant where I work. We have a group that tends to it. Keeping it mowed and such.
Who builds a nuclear plant on the grounds of a graveyard glad they keep it mowed
It’s on the 1600 acres next the highway. It was long forgotten before the land was purchased. It was discovered, cleared and preserved to this day.
Years ago, when I was a child, I was taken to a family (Rosser) Cemetary outside Moundville, Al. I would never be able to find it again, but it’s a shame that it’s hidden in the woods.
It was the cemetery for the original Old Centre Church. It was in Tuscaloosa county somewhere off of Rosser Rd between Big Sandy and Taylorville. The land belongs to Westerville Lumber and is all grown up now. We went to it at the last Riss e r Reunion at Moundville Bout 1995
Westervelt
It seems such a shame for it to be “lost”, so to speak. Rufus Menander’s (sp?) was one of graves. We’ve heard thst name all our lives.
That’s been 20 years, so there’s no telling what condition they’re in now.
Pat,
There are TWO cemeteries at Pleasant Hill. The older one is in the woods behind the church according to my deceased father-in-law. He has ancestry buried there. We never found the time to visit the cemetery when he was alive. Good luck finding the one you are seeking.
Thanks, Lee. Was he connected to Rossers, because that probably is the one I went to.
Arthur Johnston, husband of Ruby Davis was my exceptional Father-in-law. I know of no Rossers in his family tree.
I visited an old cemetery with my Mom years ago. In the woods near Moundville. Would love more info to be able to find it. My.great grandmother is buried there. My Mom is deceased
We have been searching for years on where Jessy Meredith was buried in Alabama he died 1834.
I was hunting with friend on family property they showed me what they called slave graves out in top corner of coosa county n bottom of clay near good water was bout 100 or more sites but all were unreadable
K
When I was at Auburn in 1975, my brother and I were walking through a forest I think a hunting management area northof Auburn, I ran across a family buried in the late 1790’s. They didn’t have headstones, but a 8 or 10 inch concrete oval circle with a slab on top with their names carved in the top. Always wondered if they were killed or some disease got them.
There is one in Lamar County but I can’t get to it. I do have directions however.
Susan, I am from Lamar County and would love to have the directions to that cemetery! Thank u for your interest in cemetery preservation!!
Pamela Walker Green
Looking for the grave of Isham Kendrick died from hepatitis in 1864 contracted while serving in Confederate Army . Could be in N Shelby co or Southern Jefferson co
Almost every cemetery I needed to get to in Georgia was in the woods.
What a shame
I found and recorded several old ones in St. Clair county. I know of several in Cleburne county that are unrecorded and hard to get to.
We have a lot of these in Dekalb County.
Looking for the Huntsville graveyard where one of my Grand Father’s is buried in a mass grave. He was imprisioned during the Confederate war (our family fought for the Union) and he died of Colera in Huntsville, Alabama. He was imprisioned there for over 4 years and then died of colera. Got any idea where his body resides? I want to put up a stone in his memory. Thank you, Jean Moore Sanderson. His name would be Patrick Moore.
Jean,
If he was buried anywhere he would have been buried in Old Georgia, but there are no records that can be found from the cemetery. The current Huntsville Hospital now sits where Old Georgia was located. Burials there stopped in some part of 1870 when the Glenwood Cemetery was opened.
There’s a cemetery in Alex City Al in the old Russell Estates. It is called Old Youngsville Cemetery and no one has ever really acknowledged it. I have talked to multiple people to get it cleaned up to no avail Rueben Griffin Young was the founder of Youngsville . He has 6 children buried there. I am a descendant of his. There are probably 200+ graves there. No one can get anything done to clean it up
Reuben Griffin Young is my 3rd great grandfather. Where is this cemetery located?
I grew up in Alex City and am interested in the location of this cemetery. You said Russell estates, but that only confused me because they owned so much of Alex City. Could you please give me more specifics as to the exact location or thereabouts. Thank you
My ancestor is buried at Mt Pisgah primitive baptist church later called Shady Grove in 1840 in Blount County. I have yet to find the cemetery or church. Any help?
My family has found 2 family cemeteries lost and forgotten over the years. These family members died in the early 1800 – 1917. The oldest is my G-G-G Grandparents…Seaborn Duke , two of his sons and their extended families. Cleaned up and replaced civil war veterans headstones. Gives us a connection to our family’s past.
We have several here in Walker co. that some of us that live here know a about. I’ve seen some headstones that were hand carved, some from the very late 1700’s,and some you just can’t read. There’s three cemeteries I know of . They are definitely not cared for.
Much of the Noble Hill Cemetery outside of Attalla on Sand Valley Rd is ignored. Many years ago I noticed some graves just marked with a large rock. No names , dates or anything to identify the interred. I was told those were the slave graves.
Sherry S Johnston. My brother did his doctoral dissertation at U of Al regarding name place associations. He researched every cemetery in 3 counties of northeast Al.
We have one in my neighborhood Vinegar Bend, Alabama on Prine off County Rd 8,I wish we could get some help getting it cleaned up it has lots of 1800’s graves and beautiful headstones .Needs some Love to it.
Take some photos of the headstones n share on line to appeal for help.
Will do
Are any of them Confederate Veteran Graves? If so contact a local Sons of Confederate Veterans Camp,
They would be more than happy to assist you.
John C. Awbrey
I have a cemetary on our property in Crenshaw Co, But if i published it it would cause me to have to unlock the gate and allow public access to our land. That’s not going to happen because of liability issues of drowning in the pond, running yourself head first into a tree with an ATV….
Ms. Mccall, I am researching all the cemeteries in Crenshaw county. Trying to locate graves of all who served in the Confederate Army or Navy. If you would allow me to visit your cemetery, I would be most appreciative.
David, have you by chance discovered the Benbow-Sartor Graveyard west of Mt. Ida Road and just south of Beaver Branch on the Dorothy Benbow Burnside property? We believe we have a relative that fought in the revolutionary war buried there along with his wife, son, and grandson. They were buried between 1848 and 1862. We know the site has been discovered and photos of cleaned headstones uploaded by the Crenshaw County Historical Society. Any more specific location information would be greatly appreciated.
Best regards,
Adam Eason
There’s one at Calloway Gardens, in Pine Mountain Georgia. It’s located to the right of the pathway heading away from the big circus tent. My brother found it when we were on vacation there in the 1970s. They hadn’t known it was there…
in the 60s there was a small cemetery in the woods down on Mon Luis Island with a few wooden headstones that most of been well over a hundred years old. It is most certainly now lost to the underbrush.
My great great aunt told me a few months ago that my 3x Great Grandparents are buried in the woods in Randolph County, Al. They’re somewhere in the woods near Prospect Methodist Church right below Ranburne. Her name is Martha Clementine Mitchell and her husband was Charles David Smith. If anybody knows where I might find them I would really appreciate it!
I know where there is a Civil War graveyard way back in the woods and the graves have sunk about 3 feet. If you want to know where it is located just email me.
Can you G.P.S. it? If so please document and report tis information to the Sons of Confederate Veterans- Alabama Division.
I know of a cemetery in Northern part of Randolph co Al that my Great Grandfather Rogers is buried in,Along with a Confederate Soldier. The cemete
is near Ophelia church and is hard to reach, grown over with briars trees and such.
Well, why don’t you make an effort to clean up your great-grandfather’s grave?
I know of a small cemetery on family farm land in jemison al in Chilton co. Haven’t been there since the 1980’s
My family is from Chilton County. Wish I had listened as a child. There are several cemeteries hidden. There is one where my great great great grandparents are buried across the street from a church but the woods have hidden it. Would not be able to find it now. Sad
If you wish to see a beautiful project, google in Harmony Grove Cemetery- Atlanta, Georgia. This is the final resting place of some of my relatives. They have before and after pictures of the restoration project. Also, my Grand-Mother Carrie Etheridge Beall Brown was the last person buried there in 1968. Many thanks to my cousin Jimmy Meers (May he rest in peace) for all of his efforts in this project prior to his passing away.
When I was a teenager I took my girlfriend into an old graveyard in Covington County, Alabama. It was back in a dense forest of old trees. There were few grave markers and it was said it was a Negro graveyard. It is but a few miles from the little community of Gantt, Ala. It was a moonlit night but hard to see beneath the trees. Suddenly my foot sank in the ground up to my hip and when I got out I took my leave of the cemetery never to return.
I’m sure this is where my ancestors are buried. Wish I could talk to you about where it is.
This weekend we came across a church called First Brooklyn Zion, MBC in Conecuh County, AL.
The church is not being used and in very poor condition. The cemetery just broke my heart. The overgrowth is so bad you cannot get to some of the graves. This was a Black Church and it appears it was kept at one point. Has a chain length fence all around. Most of the graves are breaking or broken because of no vaults in the earlier years. We found one person who buried there in 2000. Some of the sure names are: Marshall, McCreary, Richardson & Brooks. It is located in the vicinity of Harts Bridge Road. Walking in this cemetery one needs to take extreme care. Some graves are sunk in and with the brush they are hard to see, also this time of year snakes could be anywhere.
Don’t go searching alone nor unarmed.
Not in this day and time. Real sad indictment of our society when it is not safe to visit graves.
Yes, we wrote a story about the danger a few months back. http://alabamapioneers.com/dont-go-alone-when-transcribing-cemeteries/#sthash.3rGZ3NXO.dpbs
Also there is the danger of falling in a grave or getting your foot stuck in a hole as my cousin did. She had to wait for an hour before someone discovered her.
There is an old cemetery at the end of South Sixth St in Gadsden which has become a forest. Also one in Attalla which dates back to the 1700’s. Another on Duck SpringsRd in Etowah county with slave graves marked only with a rock. My brother did a name/place association as his doctoral work.
Don’t know if it was mentioned before, but be careful in forest of old wells at old home places!
that is one of the things I like the most about Alabama…there are many many old cemeteries located and hidden in the forests…found one hidden in trees on a interstate exit…
I’m so hoping more cemeteries will be found and documented in Coffee County and Russell County!
Me too Marie. I have ancestors unfounded in Coffee or Covington County. One day perhaps (IF they are in marked graves)
What are your family surnames in Coffee County?
Golikely/Likely. I’ve found several things but no graves sites. Family lore says they are buried 4 mi from Elba. However they lived in Covington County last. 1870 is the last census I have with the head John C not in that census. (Presumed died prior)
That 1870 census is so incomplete to add to the problems. I’ve been through every page looking by hand. Mine is the Cardwell/Bishop and aligned families. One day I hope someone comes across their family cemetery!
Seeing this cemetery in this condition makes me sad.
I know of one in Tallapoosa County Al in a place the locals call “Booger Holler” there isn’t but maybe 6 stones deep in the woods. One is newer maybe ’80’s or so but the others are just placed stones with no inscriptions.
Old Rehoboth near Laird cemetery between Gastonville and Gees Bend off dirt road in Wilcox County
Anyone know of the Maples Cemetery in Hollytree?
There is Town Cemetery on North Jackson in Russellville Franklin co Al. Boney K sever was lad to rest in October1836 she was the wife John Sevier Governor of Teen. On July 25 1922 she was removed to Knoxville Tenn. She died in her home that still stains at 203 Gaines Street there was a cholera in Russellville Al. in 1935 so this could have had to do with her death There were up ward of 80 people dead some still in homes The paper steaded With not no one to car for the sick
Pamela Cotton Field
We have several old small cemeteries on or near our property in Georgia…..just over the Alabama line outside of Roanoke. Many on Timber company property. Some dating back to 1775
Union cemetery behind the union Methodist in chelsea
There is an old cemetery in the woods where double s mountain road and gum pond road meet in the Ryan/gum pond communities.
Christine Graham Cracker Hale
Old cemeteries are a part of history. I’m not morbid but those who know what I did for a living understand why I said that. I’ve come across some very old graves and wonder what that persons life was like. No cell phones no inside running water and PRIDE in their work no matter what they did. Surviving was the number one thing they thought of for their family’s. God forbid you went down to the town lawyer to get a divorce.
Judy Myrick Miller
Yes, I have seen this article. And it is true – but I’ve not stumbled across an unknown one so far….
Gary Spotts
In Jackson county alabama in boxes cove community there is an old cementary, I think is Selby cemetery. It’s in a grove of trees in a field off 145 and is overgrown. It’s on private property I think.
Add those that were covered with water for lakes.
I would love any info on Price Cemetery in Jackson county in mud creek area. My maternal grandmothers people are buried there but many of the grave markers were destroyed and/or moved, etc.
Sherry Sorrells Finchum
Those beautiful old stones!
Pamela Cotton Field
Wonder how many are under Lake Tuscaloosa?
I know where two are in walker county
Forests may not have been there in the very old plots, trees just grew over the years.
What always gets me is when we are deer, turkey or hog hunting far from any homes or roads, and walk up on a line or several lines of flowers planted many years ago outlining a walkway or home. Those flowers have been blooming for who knows how many years without anyone seeing them. We just sit down and wonder who lived there and carefully planted them to enjoy seeing their blooms.
I’ve searched for several years for the old Vaughan family cemetery in Dallas county near Crumptonia. Someone found it in 1984, on either one side or the other of the highway which dead ends at the old Crumpton homeplace there. Names are believed to include Fielding Vaughan, Martha Vaughan, Thomas Vaughan, James H. Vaughan, and possibly Mary Fielding Vaughan Cobb and Dr. Benj. E. Cobb. A photo survives, but no notation as to exact location. If anybody has thoughts…..
Update: With the help of local resident Karl Ritz we found the cemetery about 3/4 of a mile off the road in the woods. Those graves mentioned were there, and several others which are unreadable. Parts of the wrought iron fence survive. No access except by foot.
I created a FindAGrave site and called it Fielding Vaughan Family Cemetery.
I am Native American, and I really enjoyed reading about the people of Al. Some of my Ancestors lived in Al. or was removed from Va, Tn, Ky, Nc. to Al. And I would like to know more about them as well as learning about others. and seeing the pictures, of days gone by.
Thank you,
Lilly Anderson
Lilly, I met numerous Creeks from Oklahoma during the Horseshoe Bend Battle Bicentennial and they had spent several days in Alabama visiting the sites of Creek villages and graveyards. There were several busloads of visitors excorted by the Indian Nation Police Car and followed by the Indian Nation Rescue Ambulance. This group was very well educated and very knowledgeable about their Alabama Heritage. Across from me at lunch sat a lady retired Marine Corps Major who told me some of the stories passed down to them by those who survived the Trail of Tears.”
I know where a couple of them are in Perry County.
There is 1 in Arab Alabama
What is the location please one of our Camp’s projects is cleaning them up. The Thomas Jefferson Denney Camp in Cullman County Alabama.
I know where one is, on APCO property in Jefferson County.
One in the Bolling community Butler county
Now that one looks spoooky.
Pat James show this to dad
There’s some up here in North Alabama too!
I’m looking for one in Pinelevel in Montgomery county that might have a Murdock Baker buried there.
Have you looked at Possum Troy Cemetery right by the highway just north of Pine Level on 231?
I’ve looked in Pinelevel in the past and will have to see if that is one the ones.
Cathy Haden
I keep hoping for new finds in Coffee County and Russell County!
I know where a couple of cemeteries are in Hale county
The Alabama Historical Commission is identifying cemeteries
http://ahc.alabama.gov/cemeteryprogram.aspx
I know the location of one in Marengo County
Glenda Dorriety Harris, I thought of Bennie.
David McKeehan
Norris cemetery is in walker county spring Hill area . 3 civil war graves there. No one is responsible for care of it ! 🙁
I am interested in finding the Norris Cemetery in Walker County – Spring Hill area.
Love old Cemeteries
Lisa Worsham Wilson
Maddie Palmer
I love old cemeteries!
Is anyone familiar with a cemetary called the Sylacauga Cemetary. My grandmother died in 1975 & we can’t remember or find her grave. One cousin said Grandma was buried at Shady Grove.. another relative said it was in Oneda, AL. Another said there was a church near or in front of the cemetary. Her name was Lucinda Holbrook. Can’t find any records. Appreciate any assistance.
Just moved to Eutaw Al. With my fiance to help his momma out as her husband passed. She and others have told me of an old slave cemetery on the land that her husbands daddy had destroyed by bulldozing over graves! I am so deeply saddened, appalled by this! I cannot seem to let it go and go out into woods looking for any signs of it. His momma said they had looked as well but he couldn’t remember where it was as he was a little boy when he had last seen it. He was 74 when he recently passed so it has to be an old cemetery. What a horrible thing for any human to do to another. Such disrespect! I’m determined to keep trying to find it/them and give them the respect they deserve. I stumbled upon this site while looking into dowsing and I pray for every soul searching or lost in the woods somewhere. I’m unsure if any records may exist how to search if anyone can offer advice or tips? I cannot let it go and it seems I’m alone on this mission. Can’t get much info from folks either. Shocked at how many have posted and sad to. God Bless and Guide all! Eataw Al. Greene County
I am trying to locate the graves for Barnabus Hathcock or Catherine Turner ,(Hathcock), in Covington Co., AL. She died in 1860. Any help would be appreciated.
Hello, just passing through from Houston via Denver researching my family that lived in Alabama.
May I suggest in using the Boy Scouts to help clean up these old cemeteries for merit badges or utilizing people who have to do community service as part of their payment to society?
Just a suggestion.
Jo Ann Bullard
@sherryJohnston
Camp ASCCA
I have sern a few in Kentucky.
theres some old tombstones in the woods at the lower end of forestdale mobile home park
Keith Pate as long as I lived there and was in those woods I didn’t know that
ive seen the old tombstones not sure about the actual graves. was told the it was bulldozed to build the park
Keith Pate are they down there by the sewage ponds
Johnnie Cochran when you turn into the park go right and down the hill, when the road curves left they will be off to the right just a few yards in the woods
Graveyard in the woods on Rouse Rd near Lake Lillian in the Warrior Alabama area.
Lee Bratton really? I would like to know more about this. Is it on private property?
Katie Sawyer Scott it is. It is on Dr. Coyles or at least adjacent to it. It was a road that went between Warrior and Jasper that the cemetery is on the side of. Most of them is 1800s
Is there truly a need for help in finding and documenting lost burial sites? Please tell me more!
There is a lost cemetery off Rosser Rd in Tuscaloosa co. It is on Gulf states land and I don’t think anyone has been there in a while. It was the cite of the Old Centre Church. It has graves before the civil war and lots of Rossers buried there.
We have family buried in a cemetery that has 20 ft pines tight through out. Can even see the stones anymore. What’s a solution to uncover the plots?
I have family buried. That I can not not find the the grave yard in Ironaton.
There is one out in Bayou Le Batre in a swamp.
I’m looking for the one called Midway Cemetery off Gammage Road just a couple miles north of Eufaula, Alabama. Would love to know exactly where it is, condition, photos. My great great grandparents and other kin are there. Help! [email protected]
Put them on Find A Grave by George! I put one in Western Coweta County Georgia by the Chattahoochee River on this great web site. Put them on Find A Grave please!
Most of them were identified during depreciation by wpa
Miranda Pelham
With everything going on right now they need to stay hidden
We have pics of ancestors buried off of Old Carrollton Rd near Carrollton from the old home place.
Ann Jay Puckett Harrison My mom grew up in Carrollton. I hope to visit soon. I would love to chat with you about the old cemeteries when I get there, if you’re willing. I still have relatives there.
Alice Ussery Ziemer I live in Alabaster now but my parents still live in Aliceville. Who were your parents?
Ann Jay Puckett Harrison They are deceased. My maternal grandmother was Alice Jones.
Ann Jay Puckett Harrison Mom was Elizabeth Ussery. I grew up in Texas.
Alice Ussery Ziemer my grandparents were Joel and Leona Puckett. The old Puckett place is still there where is great grandfather built in 1834. My dad is William Robert Puckett. I think I know your grandmother. Her name sounds so familiar.
Dozens of these out there that out lived the family, community or church leaving no one left to care for them.
Jackie Jackson Broughton
Here is a challenge for you Tara and Rochelle…
Thomas Givens
As a Girl Scout in the 70s, we used to hike to a hidden cemetery in the forest a couple of miles behind camp Coleman in Trussville.
If you are going north on I-65, just at the bottom of Lacon Mountain where 65 goes over Hwy. 31 there is a Cemetery between the off ramp & the Interstate road bed.. Highway Dept. almost didn’t see it.. Very-Small.
Melanie Stickler Falconer
The link to the Alabama Cemetery Preservation Alliance in this article was not a good address.
Being a Northern transplant to Alabama, I was shocked when we were at a friends farm property and kept coming across cemetaries in the woods on the property.
I know this is a weird interest , but I used to see what was the oldest grave stone I could find. It was 1811. It was just a rock with name I couldn’t read chiseled in it and the date.
Sherry Johnston.
This link goes to some spam contest.
Gail Piggott I will check it. Thanks for letting me know.
Sherry Johnston just the link in the introduction.
Gail Piggott hmm.
Gail Piggott I see what you mean.
I don’t really see mentioned how we can help in general.