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Unknown Cemetery, 88-1 Summary Report, page 6

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Wilson, Jacobs, and Chapman, among others. In fact, Yancy and Sophia Horton were listed as mortgaging land in the neighboring NW/4 in 1896 to Joseph Dickson Graham, who sold them the land in 1896. In 1901, Yancy Horton deeded land in the NW/4 for the “Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Palm Beach”. There is not much doubt that the clerk misunderstood, and the name of the church actually should have been recorded as the “Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Pond Beat”. In 1917 Yancy Horton sponsored a mortgage by Emma (CHAPMAN) and her husband John Lyle that included land in the SE/4 of Section 28. The marriage index from the on-line website of the Madison County Records Center shows the marriage of John Lyle (noted as “colored”) and Emma Chapman in 1911: 6 - (2903)    

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