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Need help surveying cemeteries in DeKalb, AL

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Re: Need help surveying cemeteries in DeKalb, AL

Posted: 27 Jun 2013 2:57PM GMT
Classification: Cemetery
Surnames: Brown
Lana,
While on my way to TX from Ohio & return, I located 2nd great grand uncles Andrew Jackson Brown & Thomas B Brown, and T.B.'s son Parker W. Brown in the First Congregational Methodist Church cemetery on County road 52:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&GSln=Gi...;

While there I did a walk around and took video of most of the Brown headstones. Most aren't related. In time I expect to update that portion. The 1966 survey of this cemetery and other Dekalb locations is on familysearch.org as 5 pdf files:
https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/DeKalb_County,_Alabam...

A.J. 's marker appears to have been added after 1965 and includes memorial annotations to his wife Hannah and T.B.'s wife Mary Emily. AL death records say Hannah is actually buried in Bessemer, but the named Elmio cemetery didn't match anything.

Eventually I will want to look at land records to see when they moved there. It may have been as a result of the mid 1890's droughts in the midwest.

Other surnames in the cemetery that I remember were Parker and Gilbert. The pdf files contain indexes for each cemetery from which surnames could be extracted.

Jack
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