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Maple Hill Cemetery, Phase 1, page xviii
23Deed Book 138, pp. 621-622. Gifts were made to Mrs. Alexander Erskine; Mrs. Harry Shepler; Mrs. Frank Mastin; T. Lacy Mastin; Clarendon Davis, who married Mr. Erskine's first cousin; and James Lawrence Cooper whose daughter married into the Mastin family. 24Deed Book 113, p. 12, records the purchase of Lot 11 from Mary A. Murphy. Deed Book 120, p. 574, records the purchase of Lots 5 and 10 from Lucy E. and Ambrose E. Overton. Lot 14 was purchased from Thomas H. and Terie P. Wade, Deed Book 125, p. 152. It should be noted that Albert Russel Erskine supposedly purchased Lot 5 from James H. Pride. Sesquicentennial Commemorative Album, 1805-1955, Huntsville, Alabama, pp. 163-164, contains an excerpt from Dale Miller's History of the Cumberland Presbyterians which states that the Chapel property was sold to the city in 1936. No record of this transaction has been found. 25 Deed Book 130, pp. 502-503. A discussion of the Stevens-Patton genealogy may be found in William Echols Spragins, Bierne-Patton-Echols-Spragins Genealogy,, Huntsville, Alabama, 1956 2^The Code of the City of Huntsville, Alabama,, 1954, Chapter 6, Sections 25-29. The Ordinance was passed by the City Council in 1947 and specifies that only veterans "who gave their lives on foreign soil" may be buried here together with their immediate family. The lot may not be sold. 27 Deed Book 138, pp. 619-620. 28Alabama Historical Commission, Preservation Report, Volume 22, No. 3, June 1995. BIBLIOGRAPHY Betts, Edward Chambers. Early History of Huntsville, Alabama, 1804-1870. Montgomery, Alabama, Brown Publishing Company, 1916 Revision. Carter, Clarence Edwin. The Territorial Papers of the United States, Washington, DC, Government Printing Office, 1934. Volumes 5, 6 and 18 relate to Alabama. Coulter, Ellis Merton. Old Petersburg and the Broad River Valley of Georgia: Their Rise and Decline. Athens, Georgia, University of Georgia Press, 1965. Cowart, Margaret Matthews. Old Land Records of Madison County,, Alabama. Privately printed, Huntsville, Alabama.. Dooling, Dave and Sharon. Huntsville. A Pictorial History. Virginia Beach, Virginia, Donning Company, 1980. Haagen, Victor B. The Pictorial History of Huntsville, 1805-1865. Meriden, Connecticut, Meriden Gravure Company, 1963. Huntsville Directory. City Guide and Business Mirror, 1859-186)0. Coltart & Son, 1859. Huntsville, Alabama, Reprinted by the Strode Publishers, 1972. xviii - (20)