Fowler Family Cemetery
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Fowler Family Cemetery

Brooksville, Blount County, Alabama, USA

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  • Get directions at the Blount-Marshall County line on Hwy 79
    Brooksville, Alabama, USA
    Coordinates: 34.21611, -86.42083
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From Brooksville, go north on Highway 79 to the Marshall County line. At the line, there is an old white house on the left at 34.21537 and -86.41700. The cemetery is about a quarter mile behind and to the left of the white house in the edge of the woods, just outside the pasture fence. The map shows the actual location of the cemetery. It is located on the old Godfrey Fowler homestead. The cemetery was surveyed on December 3, 2002 and at that time, only two monuments were legible. They were Robert and Angeline Chandler. The old white house was reportedly once a boarding house, which legend says was a host one night to the robber, Jesse James, about 1880. The house was renovated in 1992. The landowner in 2002 reported that the cemetery contained over 50 graves of whites, blacks and Indians. Six burials were listed for this cemetery in the book, Blount County, Alabama Cemeteries, Volume I (2nd Edition 2009), compiled and annotated by Robin Sterling. The woman living in the house in February 2014, knew of the cemetery and brought out a manila envelope with the genealogy of Godfrey Fowler and a write up about Jesse James' visit. The violent storms of April 2011 blew many trees down and it was impossible to access the area in 2014. Thanks to the Marshall County Sons of the Confederacy Veterans and the Guntersville Historical Society, much work on clearing and cleaning up the cemetery was done in October 2015. In addition, Macey Taylor is in the process of writing a book about the Fowler Family and this old historical house and cemetery.
From Brooksville, go north on Highway 79 to the Marshall County line. At the line, there is an old white house on the left at 34.21537 and -86.41700. The cemetery is about a quarter mile behind and to the left of the white house in the edge of the woods, just outside the pasture fence. The map shows the actual location of the cemetery. It is located on the old Godfrey Fowler homestead. The cemetery was surveyed on December 3, 2002 and at that time, only two monuments were legible. They were Robert and Angeline Chandler. The old white house was reportedly once a boarding house, which legend says was a host one night to the robber, Jesse James, about 1880. The house was renovated in 1992. The landowner in 2002 reported that the cemetery contained over 50 graves of whites, blacks and Indians. Six burials were listed for this cemetery in the book, Blount County, Alabama Cemeteries, Volume I (2nd Edition 2009), compiled and annotated by Robin Sterling. The woman living in the house in February 2014, knew of the cemetery and brought out a manila envelope with the genealogy of Godfrey Fowler and a write up about Jesse James' visit. The violent storms of April 2011 blew many trees down and it was impossible to access the area in 2014. Thanks to the Marshall County Sons of the Confederacy Veterans and the Guntersville Historical Society, much work on clearing and cleaning up the cemetery was done in October 2015. In addition, Macey Taylor is in the process of writing a book about the Fowler Family and this old historical house and cemetery.

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