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Maple Hill Cemetery, Phase 1, page 26
Section 4
WATKINS
ANDERSON
TABER
ROW 8
CLAY
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Left side: Harriet Watkins, wife of William Watkins, born in Montgomery County, Maryland May 4, 1801 - died in Florence, Alabama August 29th 1856.
Front top: Richard W. Anderson caused this monument to be erected in memory of deceased relations and to perpetuate the Huntsville Meridian.
Front center: John Anderson born in Montgomery County, Maryland Dec'r. 3d 1792 - died in Montgomery County, Alabama October 9th 1835 aged 42 years, 10 months, and 6 days.
Front bottom: Robt. Wallace Anderson, born in Montgomery County, Maryland Nov'r. 30th 1804 - died in Lawrence County, Alabama June 22nd 1830 aged 25 years, 6 months and 22 days.
Right side: Richard W. Anderson, born in Montgomery Co., Md. Nov. 30, 1790, died in Huntsville, Alabama Jan'y. 13, 1859. [Note: Mr. Anderson was a “walker” and would often walk to the Tennessee River and back before breakfast. As a cotton broker he would accompany his cotton on the boats to New Orleans but would walk back, often arriving before the returning boats.]
Right side: William B. Taber, born in Connecticut, resided here for many years, died in Nashville, Tennessee Nov. 3, 1883, was laid to rest at the side of his wife by his brother and sisters.
Back top: MERIDIAN. We meet to part no more.
Back: Eleanor Taber born in Montgomery County, Maryland January 1799- died in Madison County, Alabama July 23rd 1849 Aged 50 years and 6 months.
Back: Mary Anderson, Born in Montgomery County, Maryland October 21st 1759, died in Madison County, Alabama December 29th 1841 Aged 82 Years, 2 months, and 8 days.
Susanna Claiborne Clay, wife of Clement Comer Clay, born July 23, 1798 - died Jan'y. 2, 1866.
Clement Comer Clay, born Dec. 17, 1789 - died Sept. 6, 1866. [Note: He was a lawyer, chairman of the drafting committee of the first State Constitutional Convention; chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, U. S. Congressman, and senator from 1839-1841. He was the 8th governor of the state from 1835-1837.]
Our precious father. John Withers Clay, son of Clement C. and Susanna W. Clay, born January 11, 1820, entered into rest Palm Sunday March 29, 1896. Thy faith hath made the whole. [Note: He was editor-publisher of the Huntsville Democrat which was continued by his daughters after his death.]
Mary Fenwick Lewis, eldest daughter of John and Mary M. Lewis and beloved wife of John Withers Clay, born in Huntsville, Ala. August 20th 1825 - died February 15th 1898. Her children arise up and call her blessed.
Mary Lewis Clay. May 22, 1854 - June 9, 1901.
Virginia Clementine Clay. February 17, 1862 - February 11, 1911.
Susanna Withers Clay. July 3, 1858 - January 18, 1928. [Note: Virginia Clementine and Susanna Withers Clay took over the Huntsville Democrat after the death of their father, John Withers Clay.]
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