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Timmons Cemetery, 89-1 Summary Report, page 112

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The Farley community, where the widow of John H. Timmons (Lizzie) lived with her children, was located on Green Cove Road, on the east side of Highway 231 just north of Ditto Landing and Hobbs Island. The community took its name from Dr. John Benton Farley, who was from the town of Madison before he opened his medical practice in his house near the banks of Aldrich Creek in the community that became Farley. Dr. Farley was murdered there, according to newspaper accounts, and he is buried in the Farley - Crutcher family cemetery in the town of Madison. At the time of the petition to the probate court regarding the death of William Hardie Timmons, Sophie Timmons Jordan was the only surviving child of William and Annie Timmons. She lived with her husband Dr. David C. Jordan in nearby Guntersville, in Marshall County. In fact, Sophie continued to visit the Timmons family cemetery and assure that the Army offices managed the grounds properly until at least 1953 or 1954. In one letter, she stated that she visited the cemetery every 6 months. On several occasions she wrote letters requesting that trees be cut from the cemetery or that access steps be prepared or the walls rebuilt. The 1951 letter shown below includes a request for help with emplacement of a concrete slab over the grave of her brother, John H. Timmons, who was the husband of Lizzie and father of the children named above as living in Farley, Alabama. 112 - (3061)    

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