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Looney Cemetery Summary Report, page 44
(1937 Road Map of Madison County, excerpted for area of interest.)
If any physical evidence is ever found of this old cemetery, it would be appropriate to so advise the Daughters of the American Revolution to see if they would like to erect a suitable marker to Absalom Looney, the patriot born in 1763. Of course, the DAR may elect to someday commemorate Absalom Looney's service to his country by emplacing a marker at the Sively Cemetery in Huntsville, if they would rather have such a monument nearer his homesite. However, it is just a credible that he actually lived out his last days (as would his wife) on the lands of his sons - now a part of Redstone Arsenal, even while still owning the land in southwestern Huntsville. This theory is even more supportable when one considers the age at which the senior Absalom died. Since he was born in 1763, he was only 55 in 1818 when he died. At that age, he very probably was still active, helping his sons to clear and farm the lands to the west on the old Indian areas. Until some archaeological evidence of the Looney family cemetery is found, the location and even the existence of it will remain somewhat open to conjecture, as will the identification of the folks who may be buried there.
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