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Object ID |
33_2_020 |
Object Name |
Cemetery Record Book |
Description |
Fairhope Colony Cemetery Record Book for burials in Lot 68 as shown on page 68 of the book. There are two grave plat diagrams drawn on this page. Only two burials are recorded: Lot 68: Grave 1: No information in Cemetery Book. Other sources show Infant of Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Stubblefield in this space. Grave 2: No information Grave 3: Oscar Wilder, died 1944 Grave 4: B. F. Wharton (aka Benjamin Franklin Wharton), died 1920. Served as the Town Marshall at the time of his death. Grave 5: No information in Cemetery Book. Other sources show Infant of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Niemeyer (?) Grave 6: No information Grave 7: No information in Cemetery Book but later sources show Theodore Wilmer, died 1990 in this space Gave 8: no information in Cemetery Book but later sources show Victoria Bernhardt Wilmer in this space, died 1976. The name "A. J. Gregson" is written in the margins. Mrs. A. J. Gregson (Bathsheba H. Wharton Gregson), died 1927 is buried in Lot 49 (33_2_011) and there is a not on that page that there was the intention for her remains to be moved to Lot 67, but not mention was made on that page. Here we see the name reappear in Lot 68, but no information if the body was moved. From the Fairhope Colony Cemetery Record Book, Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives |
People |
Wilder, Oscar Wharton, B. F. Gregson, A. J. Stubblefield, R. R. Niemeyer, Jack Wilmer, Theodore Wilmer, Victoria Bernhardt |
Search Terms |
Fairhope Colony Cemetery Record Book Fairhope Colony Cemetery Burials Cemetery Records |