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Farming For A Better Future, page 17
WPA Douthit Cemetery Survey about 1930 to 1933
Last Name First Name Birth Year Death Year Notes
Abernathy Horace 1876 1904 Son of Eliza & G. A. Abernathy
Abernathy Walter 1884 1911
Bowling Albert 1876 1928
Bowling Lota 1880 1924
Craig Arminta 1909 1922
Craig Jack 1896 1922
Craig Martha 1877 1923
Craig Ophelia 1913 1924
Craig Sarah 1898 1922
Holiday Ella - - Wife of Lee Holiday
Holiday Richard 1864 1933 Age 69 Years
Holiday Sherman 1890 1911
Holiday Sunie - - Aged 8 Month, Daughter of Rofe & Lavenea Holiday
Holiday W. 1853 1908 Age 55 Years
Hurd Elizabeth - 1895 Wife of Benjamin Hurd
Hurd Eliza J. 1865 1904 Wife of W. D. Hurd
Johnson Arthur 1895 1929
Johnson Hester 1902 1921
Johnson Mary 1873 1927
Johnson Rosie 1872 1929
Menace May Belle 1898 1925
Payne Eddie - 1906 Son of Andy & Martha Payne
Shannon Mary 1879 1924 Age 45 Years
Trotter Hannah - 1902 Wife of John Trotter
White Peggie - 1896 Wife of Frank White
White Sophia 1875 1923
Williams Florence 1878 1898 Wife of John Williams
Woodruff Mary 1849 1927
(Above) 1953 USGS/TVA Topographic Map of Douthit
Cemetery, Margerum, Alabama Quadrangle
cemetery in the early 1930s, there were only 28 graves present. Despite being surveyed a few years earlier, the cemetery does not appear on the 1936 USGS/TVA topographic map. It is first recorded on the 1953 topographic map.
This cemetery is thought to date as early as the 1850s and most likely contains numerous unmarked graves. The earliest marked grave is that of Elizabeth Hurd (died 1895), wife of Benjamin Hurd. Other family names include Craig, Holiday, and Johnson.
The Douthit Cemetery began as the African American section of the larger, integrated cemetery that it is today. From 1901 to 1968, Alabama state law prohibited the burial of African Americans and white people in the same cemetery. While many integrated cemeteries existed in the 19th century, this law forced communities to either create new burial grounds or establish adjacent African American sections within existing cemeteries. Following the Civil Rights Act of 1968, this active cemetery eventually became integrated.
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First Missionary Baptist Church of Tuscumbia
Located in southeast Tuscumbia in a historically African American neighborhood, the First Baptist Church of Tuscumbia is situated on the northeast
(Below) Excerpt of Sanborn Fire Insurance
Map of Tuscumbia, Colbert County, 1921. Showing First Missionary Baptist Church of Tuscumbia as “Baptist Church (Colored)” and Trenholm High School as “Tuscumbia Colored College.” (University of Alabama, Historical Map Collection, Online)
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