Bynum Slave Cemetery
Courtland, Lawrence County, Alabama, USA – *No GPS coordinates
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Add PhotosThe following information was abstracted from a newspaper article where Ginger Grantham interviewed Mr. Charles Jordan about the Bynum Cemeteries. The article was published in The Moulton Advertiser dated Wednesday 1 February 2006 and titled "Grave yards hold some mysteries".
Mr. Jordon talks about his early remembrances of going to decorations at the slave cemetery with the Blacks and how he marked the gravesites in the late 1960s or early 1970s with metal cemetery plaques. He said that he marked the graves he could find at that time which numbered about 30 to 40 gravesites. He went on to say that when he was a young boy attending the decorations he remembered there to be around a hundred unmarked graves. At the time of the interview he was unable to even find the graves which he had marked in the 1960-70 time period. He remembered an old Black man who told him that he was born a slave, but Mr. Jordon could not remember his name. He did remember that in the slave cemetery there was only one marker and that was for William McDonald, who died on April 13, 1918 according to the inscription he was 26 years old. We located a transcription of Mr. McDonalds death certificate on Familysearch.org showing that he died 13 Oct 1918 in Camp Grant, Rockford, Winnebago, Illinois at the age of 30, that his estimated birth year was 1888 that he was a soldier and resided at Camp Grant, Rockford, Winnebago, Illinois and was buried at Courtland, Alabama.
The following information was abstracted from a newspaper article where Ginger Grantham interviewed Mr. Charles Jordan about the Bynum Cemeteries. The article was published in The Moulton Advertiser dated Wednesday 1 February 2006 and titled "Grave yards hold some mysteries".
Mr. Jordon talks about his early remembrances of going to decorations at the slave cemetery with the Blacks and how he marked the gravesites in the late 1960s or early 1970s with metal cemetery plaques. He said that he marked the graves he could find at that time which numbered about 30 to 40 gravesites. He went on to say that when he was a young boy attending the decorations he remembered there to be around a hundred unmarked graves. At the time of the interview he was unable to even find the graves which he had marked in the 1960-70 time period. He remembered an old Black man who told him that he was born a slave, but Mr. Jordon could not remember his name. He did remember that in the slave cemetery there was only one marker and that was for William McDonald, who died on April 13, 1918 according to the inscription he was 26 years old. We located a transcription of Mr. McDonalds death certificate on Familysearch.org showing that he died 13 Oct 1918 in Camp Grant, Rockford, Winnebago, Illinois at the age of 30, that his estimated birth year was 1888 that he was a soldier and resided at Camp Grant, Rockford, Winnebago, Illinois and was buried at Courtland, Alabama.
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Courtland, Lawrence County, Alabama, USA
- Total memorials1k+
- Percent photographed89%
- Percent with GPS1%
Courtland, Lawrence County, Alabama, USA
- Total memorials1k+
- Percent photographed90%
- Percent with GPS2%
Courtland, Lawrence County, Alabama, USA
- Total memorials737
- Percent photographed45%
- Percent with GPS0%
Courtland, Lawrence County, Alabama, USA
- Total memorials325
- Percent photographed87%
- Percent with GPS0%
- Added: 12 Aug 2014
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2550302
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