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SimpsonSlave Cemetery, 80-2 Summary Report, page 12

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will refer to a cemetery in terms of the current landower of record, or at least the one of recent memory. Accordingly, when people living in the 1940s were asked whose cemetery this was, they would have recalled who owned the land at that time (the 1940s) and in the generation immediately preceding. Such “living memories” could well have associated the cemetery with the Simpson family, but any slaves buried here as such would not likely have been owned by the Simpsons. All that can be done now is to show the remaining area photos of the cemetery: Simpson Slave Cemetery, Redstone Arsenal, Madison Co. AL, May 2, 2003 Entrance Gate 12 - (2776)    

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