Old Morris Chapel Cemetery

OLD MORRIS CHAPEL CEMETERY, LAWRENCE COUNTY ALABAMA

Mapping The Location Historic Morris Chapel Church and Cemetery Old Morris Chapel Church moved

Area Views: 7003/7004/7005/7015/7016/7017/7018/7036/7037/7038/7041/7085/7095/7096/7097/7098/7099/7101/7106/7107

Stone wall enclosure marking grave lot(s) with no inscribed marker present: 7059

ALDREDGE, Mary Ellen McNorton, 17 May 1840 - 17 Jun 1867. "Wife of W. V. Aldredge." (Stone broken) 7011/7013/7014

BERRY, Mary T., 26 Sep 1854 - 15 Feb 1855. "Daughter of John & Harriet Berry.", "J.E. Doyle _ccit" (stone cutter ?) Footstone: "M.T.B." 7056/7055/7057/7058

BORGHINI, Jennie, 7 Apr 1816 - 16 Apr 1894. "Borned at Owensboro, Ky.", "She was a fond mother and a friend to all." (Slab stone.) 7093/7094

BORGHINI, Salvatory, 22 Jun 1814 - 15 Sep 1872. "Borned at Pead Mont, Italy.", "An honest man's the noblest work of God." (Slab stone.) 7091/7092/7094

LOWERY, Matilda Russell, 3 Apr 1816 - 25 Jun 1863. "Married Robt. Lowery Aug 13, 1834." 7010

LOWERY, Robt., 31 May 1812 - 18 Nov 1881. "Married Matilda Russel Aug 13, 1834." 7008

McCLESKEY, Marcella J., 22 Oct 1837 - 10 Dec 1897. "A Christian a devoted wife and mother." 7102C/7102/7103/7104/7105

McCLESKEY, Sarah A., 4 Feb 1861 - 4 Aug 1864. "Budded on earth to bloom in Heaven." 7087/7088/7104/7105

McCLESKEY, Unknown, no dates. "A tender father and a faithful friend." (next to the tombstone of Sarah A. McCleskey & Marcella J. McCleskey; Top missing.) 7089/7090/7103/7104/7105

McCULLOCH, Elizabeth A., 21 Jan 1832 - 27 Aug 1871. "Wife of Joseph McCulloch." Footstone: "E. A. Mc." (Stone broken and on the ground.) 7023/7024/7025/7022

McCULLOCH, James D., 3 Dec 1862 - 23 Jun 1863. "Son of J. & E. A. McCulloch." 7064/7065/7066/7100

McCULLOCH, James Thomas, 10 Jan 1835 - 13 Mar 1880. "He followed virtue As his Trust Guide,... ... ... As a Christian Died." Military marker: "Pvt Capt Young's Nitre & Mining Corp Confederate States Army." 7030

McCULLOCH, John Bascomb, 8 Jun 1874 - 21 Aug 1877. "Son of David & J. T. McCulloch.", "Gone but not forgotten." 7020/7021

McCULLOCH, Joseph, 12 Apr 1832 - 3 Apr 1906. Masonic Emblem. "At Rest." 7026/7027

McCULLOCH, Sarah J., 14 Nov 1852 - 3 Mar 1892. "Wife of Joseph McCulloch." Footstone: "S. J. Mc." 7028/7029/7031

McCULLOCH, Walter, V., 20 Oct 1859 - 14 Feb 1883. "Son of T. & S.F. McCulloch.", "Another Link is Broken in our Household Band, But Another one is Forming in a Better Land" 7039/7040

McCULLOCH, Wiley L., 25 Dec 1871 - 12 Sep 1873. "Son of J. & E.A. McCulloch." 7062/7063/7065/7066

M. . . . . . . . . ., "Mary T., daughter of. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . M . . . . . . .Born . . . . . . . . . . . . . Died. . . . . . . ", "Gone but not forgotten." (stone broken in several pieces; Could this be for Mary T. McCulloch with a death date of about 1903 based on the style stone. Concrete stones like this were used extensively in north Alabama from about 1900 to 1907. This is also the area where the McCulloch graves are located.) 7042/7043

PITT, Robert Gray, 1826 - death date unknown likely between 1860 & 1870. Shows up last in the 1860 census of Lawrence Co. (son of William Todd Pitt and Mary Raley Pitt thought be buried in the Spring Hill Cemetery in Decatur Alabama. He married Varena McCulloch July 17, 1851 in Lawrence County, AL. See findagrave.com)

PITT, Varena McCulloch, 1826 - 1921.

SIVLEY Hannah (Lowery), 16 Oct 1812 - 28 Oct 1852. (Aged 40 Years & 10 days.) "Wife of Pleasant Sivley." Footstone: "H.S." Rest Mother Rest . . . (Note: This stone broken in several pieces and put upright for photo. Pleasant Sivley is interred in the Sivley Cemetery in Lawrence County nearby.) 7045/7046/7047/7048

SIVLEY, Racheal (Taylor), 1774 - 1864. ( w/o Joseph Sivley; new stone, who is interred in Huntsville Alabama in the Sivley Family cemetery.) 7044

Unknown soul/souls marked by fieldstone: 7006/7007/7009/7012/7019/7032/7033/7034/7035/7036/7037/7049/7050/7051/7052/7053/7054/7060/7061/
7067/7068/7069/7070/7071/7072/7073/7074/7075/7076/7077/7078/7079/7080/7081/7082/7083/7084/7086

This Cemetery presentation is based on the photography of C. Wayne Austin on 3 Mar 2010, Original typing by Faye Bradford, and site linkage & programming by MB Richardson. Finalized and added here
by C. Wayne Austin of Madison Alabama on 20 Aug 2011.