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This list of cemeteries in Alabama includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable.
The logo of Find a Grave used from 1995 to 2018 [2] Find a Grave was created in 1995 by Salt Lake City, Utah, resident Jim Tipton to support his hobby of visiting the burial sites of famous celebrities. [3] Tipton classified his early childhood as being a nerdy kid who had somewhat of a fascination with graves and some love for learning HTML. [4]
Alabama National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in Montevallo, Alabama, about 35 miles south of Birmingham, Alabama. It encompasses 479 acres (194 ha), will serve veterans' needs for at least the next 50 years, and interments began on June 25, 2009.
Hank Williams's funeral, recorded as the largest funeral in Montgomery's history and one of the largest in the entire Southern United States, had a line two and a half city blocks long between the Montgomery City Auditorium and the Oakwood Cemetery Annex, with three trucks required to handle the wreaths that were placed at the Annex, and (according to R. L. Lampley and Marvin Stanley ...
Dawson was considered a leading citizen of Selma who raised money for Selma's Charity Hospital and Dallas Academy. He was a church leader at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, where his funeral was held. [13] [16] In 2015, the Elodie Todd Dawson sculpture was named one of Alabama's "most photographed cemetery monuments". [16]
Greenwood Cemetery is a cemetery in Montgomery, Alabama, United States. Notable interments include: John Abercrombie, U.S. Congressman [1] Bibb Graves, 38th Governor of Alabama [2] Dixie Bibb Graves, U.S. Senator and First Lady of Alabama [3] J. Lister Hill, U.S. Congressman and Senator [4] Reuben Kolb, Alabama's commissioner of agriculture [5]
The Decatur Cemetery is the oldest burial ground in the Atlanta metropolitan area, and is believed to have been used even before Decatur's 1823 incorporation.. In 1832, an act by the local legislature created “Commissioners for the Decatur Burial Ground.” [3] [2] Numerous Civil War veterans were buried in the Decatur Cemetery, mostly in the 8-acre (3.2 ha) area now referred to as "The Old ...
Greenwood Cemetery is a city cemetery established in c. 1820 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, U.S.. [2] [3] It is the oldest cemetery in the city and is located near the First African Baptist Church. It has a historical marker erected in 1996 by City of Tuscaloosa, the Heritage Commission of Tuscaloosa County, and Cahaba Trace Commission. [4]