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Cashin /

Banks /

Garth

Martha

Sword

(by tree)

Civil War

Horace King

Camp

June 3, 1903

Scott

Tomb

Skeggs

Broadus

Moseley

Cemetery

moved by

Chemstrand

Wyker’s

Bunker

T. M.

Jones

Davis

(Fennel

Family)

Kate

Lackner,

Nellie

and Ben

Strange

Jewish

Pickard / Derrick Monument

(Richard Hawes Riot,

Birmingham, Sheriff Joseph

Smith)

Rev. M.

J. Hook

Dr. William

Banks,

Captain

John

Brown

Stuart

H. A.

Skeggs

William M. Dancy

PrideCalvin and

Fannie

Brown

Collier /

Leadingham

Mayor H. S. Freeman

William A. Raney

Hoff

John Lile

McGehee

McEntire

Steamboat

Bill Hudson

Decatur City

Cemetery

(Oakwood)

Nelson /

Bloodworth

James M. Brundidge,

Grand Master Masons,

father of America Neville

(Minor Cemetery)

Sterrs

Addition

1960’s

Sterrs Addition Misc

1st burial Grace Wynn 2/23/66

Marker Ethyl Rogers d: 6/12/33

Bettie Black Pride 1872-1980 (108 yrs)

Wyker

Documentation

by Phil Wirey

Updated

2016

Nellie Lawton’s

Father

Belle

Bloodworth

Carolyn

Cortner

Smith

Once used as

chapel

Sue Murphy Nelson

(unmarked)

Mary

Broadus

Pruitt

George

Nichols

Judge W. W. Callahan

Ned Frazier

Nungester

Doctor

Memorial

(Gill –

Shadowlawn)

O. C.

Ludwig

(unmarked)

/ Hoxter

Polk /

Littlejohn /

Harris West

Ray / Nelson

Notable Decatur Cemetery Burials

• Named for Dr. Willis Sterrs and Eva Sterrs – the Guardian, Cottage Grove Infirmary

• Lafayette Garth – Fought in Civil War for the 111th US Colored Infantry, born on the

General Jesse Winston Garth Plantation, daughter Ada married Solomon Sykes

• Herschel Vivian Cashin – one of the first African American lawyers in Alabama

• Matthew Hewlitt Banks - second black city councilman, granddaughter Athylene

• Yellow Fever Doctor Memorial – Dr. William Gill and mass grave for yellow fever

victims – 1878 and 1888

• Oswald Cross Ludwig (1858-1918) – Secretary of State of Arkansas, newspaper

editor, enrolling clerk US Senate, Lizzie May his rich eccentric wife

• Little Martha Sword – September 1851 burial, moved from original cemetery?

• Oscar Pickard – police chief of Birmingham during the Richard Hawes Riot 1890’s

• Civil War Burial Site – one of three civil war burial sites

• Nelson and Bloodworth families – jeweler, mayor, editors, and judges

• Nellie Lawton and Belle Bloodworth – tragic endings

• Edward Mitchell Pride and Jane Beall Pride Harris plots – Pride/Harris/Candler

connections

• Calvin Brown - founder of Oakwood Cemetery and Fannie

• Christopher Columbus Harris and Edith West Harris – Dr. Anson and Marvin West

• Littlejohn and Polk Family – from the Dancy and President James K. Polk families

• Mary Broadus Pruitt – travels to China, schoolmate of Bear Bryant

• Banks and Stuart Family – first store built after Civil War

• George Nichols Gravesite - mystery man

• John Fletcher Scott - railroad contractor, builder of Scott Block Bank Street

• Judge W.W. Callahan – Scottsboro Boys Trial Judge

• Sue Murphy Nelson - lived in Rhodes Home and sued government for war

destruction

• George Asa Nelson / Lillian Ray – founder of Cedar Lake

• James Brundidge – Alabama’s Grand Master Masonic Lodge

• Samuel Sinclair Broadus - father was Dr. John A. Broadus, banker, historian

• Judge W. E. Skeggs – respected judge, ran stop light and shot policeman

• John D. Wyker – Ohio pharmacist, hardware store and munitions bunker

• Jewish section of cemetery – Lyons, Polytinsky, Lesser, Wohl

• Kate Lackner and Nellie Strange – wine, women, and song

• Captain William Moseley family – defender of Huntsville in Creek Indian War

• Nungester and Frazier - Decatur’s most famous artists and supporters of the arts