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Farming For A Better Future, page 288
(Above) Application for a Military Headstone for Jessie Malone, 1931 (U.S., Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925-1963, National Archives and Records Administration via Ancestry.com) (Below) 1910 Federal Census Showing Jessie and Malissa Malone (National Archives and Records Administration via Ancestry.com)
(Left) 1950 USGS/TVA Topographic Map of Hatchett and Malone (Sowell) Cemeteries, Jones Crossroads, Alabama Quadrangle (Bottom Left) 1976 USGS/TVA Topographic Map of Hatchett and Malone Cemeteries, Jones Crossroads, Alabama Quadrangle
2011
Johnson Chapel* and Cemetery
Located north of Tanner along Bee Line Highway (US 31), there was a church called Johnson Chapel. Now, all that remains is the adjacent cemetery. Johnson Chapel was labeled on the 1935 USGS/TVA topographic map, but while it lent its name to the cemetery, the chapel was gone by 1958.
The African American cemetery has at least 57 burials. The earliest is Hattie Brown Cosby (1921-1954). There
are probably unmarked graves associated with the church that date to the 1930s or earlier. Common surnames here are Hines, Malone, and Townsend. The cemetery population includes local landowners and farmers Hartle Cain, Jr. (1901-1965) and his brother, Homer Cain (1904-1957). Their father, Hartle Cain (b. 1873), owned a farm in 1920 when the brothers were growing up. Their neighbors were also Cain men who were about the same age as Cain, Sr. and possibly his brothers. By 1940, Homer, too, owned a farm, perhaps inherited from his father.
(Below) 1935 USGS Topographic Map
Showing Johnson Chapel - (4816)