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Looney Cemetery Summary Report, page 38

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seem to pretty well agree on most points. Most significantly, there is agreement for the most part that the senior Absalom who was a Revolutionary War soldier had sons named John W. and Absalom. It is obviously these brothers that owned the lands in the pre-arsenal locations. Data in the on-line records from Ancestry.com is further authenticated by the marriage records found for the Looneys in Madison County, which include Elijah Looney to Susan Dickey and Absalom to Acedorah A. Winn. Since John W. Looney was the one to ultimately sell the land that his father had gotten from the government in Section 12, T4-R1W, it is apparent that he was the executor and inheritor of the majority of his father and mother's estate. From the dates of purchases and sales of lands, it would likewise appear that the senior Absalom's wife continued to live on the property by the old Huntsville airport until her death, but it is still quite possible that Absalom and his wife are both buried on the arsenal, on land held by his sons. Of course, the fact should not be overlooked that it is likewise possible that Absalom and his wife were buried in the Sively Cemetery on the old airport grounds, near their home in S12-T4-R1W. 38 - (3260)    

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