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Cooper - Penland Cemetery, 80-1 Summary Report, page 23
arsenal grounds contractor maintains the Penland - Cooper Cemetery, but it is located in a wooded area away from well traveled roads, as shown below:
Penland - Cooper Cemetery, 80-1, Redstone Arsenal, Madison Co. AL, April 26, 2003
No inscribed tombstones were found on this date. Dorothy Scott Johnson, in her book CEMETERIES OF MADISON COUNTY, ALABAMA, VOL. I (1971), recorded a tombstone for Isabella J. Penland, "...daughter of Rev. Alex & I.J. Penland. Died December 16, 1856, aged ... (stone broken & age illegible..."
Mrs. Johnson further noted in her book that "... Alexander Penland -M- Isabella J. Allison, the daughter of David Allison and Sarah (Smith) Allison, on July 30, 1850."
Even after extensive probing of the soil to a depth of about two inches, fragments of only one obvious grave marker were found, as shown in the photos inserted below. From the traces of the remaining inscription on the fragments, it can be identified as the marker for a child named Isabella J.
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