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Elko Switch Cemetery, 20-1 Summary Report, page 18
walk or ride north on this road. The historic cemetery is located next to what would have been RFD No. 5. Mr. Burns does not recall a cemetery in this location.
8. Emma and Ovoy Horton, Huntsville, Alabama
...They were untiring in their efforts toward identification of the cemetery. Both grew up in the communities of Pond Beat and Mullins Flat. Mr. and Mrs. Horton are relatives of Aaron Burns.. Neither Emma nor Ovoy Horton recall the historic cemetery.
9. Cecil Chaney, Huntsville, Alabama
.His teacher, Ms. Leotra Estralanger, was also contacted. She does not recall a cemetery in the area. Cecil Chaney never heard anyone talk about a cemetery nor did he ever see a cemetery during the time he spent at his grandfather's farm. In his opinion, "the cemetery was likely before his grandfather's time and had been abandoned."
10. Lawrence Hundley, [former director, Royal Funeral Home], Huntsville, Alabama
.Mr. Hundley was asked if he knew of the project's historic cemetery, and does not recall it. His knowledge, however, of black cemeteries in this area is extensive. He has "buried people in Triana, Mullins Flat, and Pond Beat." When asked about a possible identification of the cemetery he replied, "that many landowners buried their people..everyone had a gravesite on their farmland."
11. Richard Fletcher Pride, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Mr. Pride is the son of William Thomas Pride, M.D., a prominent physician in Madison County from 1895-1921.. Richard Pride remembers hunting on the Davis' farm, but does not recall "seeing" a cemetery. He was also asked about
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