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Murphy Chapel Cemetery
Lauderdale County, Alabama
Lat: 34° 58' 39"N, Lon: 87° 53' 16"W
Contributed by David Leon Montgomery, Jul 11, 2003, last edited
Feb 23, 2008 [dmont1734@comcast.net].
Total records = 762.
Murphy Chapel Cemetery is located 1/2 mile east of Alabama Highway
20, on Lauderdale County Road 8 at Murphy Chapel Free Will Baptist
Church northwest of Florence, Alabama.
There has been a church on this location since before 1898. The
cemetery is much older. The oldest known grave is that of a Confederate
soldier buried in 1861. Katie K. Jones is the oldest known person
buried here, having been born in 1792.
Some graves are probably much older than those listed. Numerous
graves have only stones marking them. There are 14 civil war veterans,
16 WWII veterans, 3 Korean veterans, 3 Vietnam veterans and 1
Mexican War veteran buried here. The church manages the cemetery.
The following survey has been diligently checked for accuracy
of names and dates and is current as of 11 Jul 2003. All information
has been derived from headstones & foot markers of known burial
locations.
- David Leon Montgomery
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