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Farming For A Better Future, page 158
(Top) Excerpt of 1940 Census Record Showing George Carroll Owning a Farm (National Archives and Records Administration via Ancestry.com) (Second) Excerpt of 1920 Census Record Showing Robert Anderson Owning a Farm (National Archives and Records Administration via Ancestry.com) (Third) Excerpt of 1930 Census Record Showing Tom Baker Owning a Farm (National Archives and Records Administration via Ancestry.com) (Fourth) Excerpt of 1930 Census Record Showing Bama Bryant Owning a Farm (National Archives and Records Administration via Ancestry.com) 26 ■ Posey Cemetery The Posey Cemetery is located in a grove of trees surrounded on three sides by an automobile junk yard off Middle Road at the end of Hough Road. The small KEY cemetery only has about 18 graves, and the earliest known interment is Daisy Posey (1884-1884). There are only six surnames in the cemetery: Bulls, Edwards, Hough, Johnson, Posey, and Watts. Also known as Huff or Huff-Posey Cemetery, the Huff name is recorded on the 1953 USGS topographic map and is most likely a misspelling of Hough. This error continued on the topographic maps, but locally, the cemetery is known as Posey Cemetery. Nine members of the Posey family rest here, and most are the children of Charlie Posey, Jr. (1851-1934) and Kate Posey (1852-1942). It is not known whether they were born slaves, but it is likely. By 1900, Charlie and Kate owned a farm in east Florence. The 1900 census records the farm as paid in full, with five of the eight children in their household working on the family (Right) Charlie Posey's Grave Memorial (Findagrave.com, User John Church) farm. The 1910 census shows Mr. Posey living among several other African American landowning farmers. While the 1920 census records the Posey's ownership status as “unknown,” they likely continued to own their farm. In 1930, the road they live on is recorded as Hough Road, just west of the cemetery. Mr. Posey passed away in 1937, and the 1940 census records an 88-year-old Kate Posey as owner of the farm. She lived next door to Lewellen Hough (1869-1941), also buried in the Posey Cemetery. Further research may reveal that Posey Cemetery is located on Charlie Posey's land and that some of those buried here were renters on his land. (Opposite Page) (Top) Excerpt of 1900 Census Record Showing Charlie and Kate Posey Owning a Farm (National Archives and Records Administration via Ancestry.com) (Middle) Excerpt of 1910 Census Record Showing Charlie and Kate Posey Owning a Farm among Other African American Landowners (National Archives and Records Administration via Ancestry.com) (Bottom) Excerpt of 1930 Census Record Showing Charlie and Kate Posey Owning a Farm (National Archives and Records Administration via Ancestry.com) COMMUNITIES CEMETERIES CHURCHES PLANTATIONS SCHOOLS - (4686)