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Farming For A Better Future, page 146
(Above) Excerpt of 1900 Census Rrecord Showing Guss Armistead Owning a Farm (National Archives and Records Administration via Ancestry.com)
small dotted box with a cross. By 1957, the map indicates Forks of Cypress as a large building. The “Jackson Cemetery” is also labeled, and the Armistead Cemetery is indicated, but not labeled.
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Fuqua Cemetery
The Fuqua Cemetery, also referred to as the Fuqua-Sturdivant or, simply, Sturdivant Cemetery, is located southwest of Rogersville, just east of the boundary for what is now Joe Wheeler State Park. The cemetery is described as having burials of both white and people of color. The first burials are those of Sarah F. Sturdivant (1826-1851) and her infant sons, John J. (1845-1845) and William F. (1850-1850). The Sturdivants were listed on the 1850 “Free inhabitants” census and were most likely a white family. However, the other graves and possibly those marked with only fieldstone are burials of people of color.
The cemetery contains 25 marked graves and at least
24 unmarked graves - or at least those that only have field stones and no inscriptions. Common family names include Fuqua, Ingram, and Page. Arguster
(Middle Page) (Left) 1936 USGS Topographic Map of Fuqua Cemetery, Thorntontown, Alabama Quadrangle (Middle) 1952 USGS Topographic Map of Fuqua Cemetery, Thorntontown, Alabama Quadrangle (Right) 1974 USGS Topographic Map of Fuqua Cemetery, Thorntontown, Alabama Quadrangle (Bottom Right) Photograph of Fuqua Cemetery, 2015 (Findagrave.com, User John Church)
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B COMMUNITIES
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B PLANTATIONS
B SCHOOLS - (4674)