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Unknown Cemetery, 88-1 Summary Report, page 7
Lyle, John (c) Chapman, Emma 17 May 1911 Vol. 36 p. 425
Considering the presence of the Jacobs and Horton families in the list of landowners for tracts around the cemetery, it is almost a certainty that the little cemetery was used by black families of those surnames. That conclusion is supported by notes made by Beverly Curry of an interview with one of the descendants of these families, as given below.
From the notes made in the year 2001 by Beverly Curry of the Army offices, when she interviewed Lizzie Jacobs Ward and Walter Joiner, from an e-mail sent to John P. Rankin 3 November 2004:
Lizzie Jacobs Ward and Walter Joiner
(See John Rankin info on Joiner-Lacy cemetery 89-2)
She was born on arsenal land. So were her parents. Her grandmother Luisa was a slave. Her grandfather was William Timmons (white). “We always stayed on his place. They rang bells when he died.
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