SALEM CEMETERY
Cemetery was read 13-APR-1995 by Jane Nunn. Kathryn McAlexander, Irene Powell, Mary Brown and Melba Tims.
Reading was from North to South. Updated 23-FEB-1996
This cemetery is known to be predominantly white.
LOCATION; From Queen City Red light on Hwy 59 go 236 loop east .5 miles to CR 74, turn east on CR74 for 5.0 miles to CR 4810, turn right to church and cemetery.
Land for the Salem Baptist Church was donated by Naomih J. Peters of Lawrence County, Alabama. It was part of the Richard Peters headright survey. This is recorded in Register Record Book Y, pages 188 & 189 signed 07-DEC-1872.
It is thought that the cemetery by the church was started when Martha Amanda McWilliams Simmons died. The church was across the road from where it now stands. Three fourths of an acre was donated for the cemetery by her parents, A. E. & Rachel. "Callie" McWilliams. Martha was the first wife of Ike Simmons. Joseph Anthony donated the new part of the cemetery by the church where it stands now in 1928. Doris Virginia Simmons Frame, daughter of Vera & Ray Simmons and granddaughter of Joseph Anthony was given control of the new cemetery. She sold
lots and the money went into the cemetery fund. W. H. Cupp owns the land from the south gate on south side and sells lots in their part of the cemetery.
This first section is the old part of the cemetery that is across the road from the Salem Baptist Church.
The oldest known grave;
SIMMONS Mattie McWilliams 12-FEB-1871 11-JUL-1891
Much more information and a list of internments can be found in
THE CEMETERIES WITH CASS COUNTY CONNECTIONS VOLUME 1
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Return to The Volume 1 Cemetery Book
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