Talladega County Cemetery Destroyed

Submitted by: Rachal Leigh Grizzle

Marble Springs Presbyterian Church & Cemetery, Talladega County, Alabama, Est 1837.

Information about the Cemetery:

Formerly located about 8 miles east of Talladega on road to Jemison's (Turner's) Mill. Approximately 300ft from Choccolocco Bridge, SE of creek, East side of Highway.

This Church and Cemetery is gone. In 1973 a cotton field covered the original site. All evidence has vanished.

Here is a partial list of the Church Families. Some may have been buried in the cemetery.

Members in 1837

Rev Robert Holman
Samuel Alexander English, Mary English (wife), and daughter Elizabeth English, daughter Jane English Walker.

Robert Mcelhaney
William Caruthers
James & William Montgomery (brothers)[From Jackson County, Georgia]

Members circa 1840

Susan Bowie
Jane Jack & Servant
William L Lewis
Samantha Lewis
Sarah Lewis
Alexander Bowie
Mrs Reutelia H Isbell
Joseph T Cunningham And 3 Servants
Agnes Cunningham, Amanda Cunningham
William B McClelland, Martha McClelland,
Amanda O McClelland Samuel F McClelland
Mary McClelland
Ann A Bowie
James A Walker, Mary Walker
Daniel H Jackson, Julie A Jackson
Andrew Cunningham
Martha S Mcelhaney
Samuel People
Andrew J Siddell
Mary Creswell
Mary Wilson
Margaret Hendrick
Craig Orr, Cynthia Orr
Thomas Best

Known Burials At This Cemetery

1st Wife Of Jlm Curry
Chancellor Bowie & Wife
The Montgomery Family
The Cunningham Family

From book, "Early Alabama Churches" copyright 1973 by The Alabama Society Daughters Of The American Revolution.

Rachal Leigh GRIZZLE
"Walker Of Stones"
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