NELSON CEMETERY, (near Mooresville), LIMESTONE COUNTY, ALABAMA

Mapping the location

Cemetery Area Views: 7692/7693/7694/7695/7733/7743/7749/7750/7751/7760/7761/7762/7763/7764/7765
Nelson Cemetery sign: 7691

BLACK, Virginia P., 18 Apr 1846 - 10 Nov 1862. 7729/7733
BLACK, John, 13 Mar 1804 - 18 Nov 1873. 7730/7733
BLACK, Martha T., 13 Feb 1812 - 20 Dec 1898. In life she exhibited all the graces of a Christian, In death her spirit returned to God who gave it.  7731C/7731/7733
BLACK, Thomas H., 24 Jan 1854 - 9 Jan 1876. 7732C/7732/7733
CARTWRIGHT, Infant of R. N. & Helen Cartwright, Died 4 Aug 1884. 7709
FOWLER, Esther Nelson, 20 Jan 1901 - 13 Jan 1941. 7696
KARNES, Charles H., 23 Apr 1861 - 18 Feb 1928. 7702
KARNES, Sarah E., 9 Sep 1863 - 11 Sep 1928. 7702
KARNES, Hume C., 11 May 1886 - 21 Nov 1899, son of C. H. & S. E. Karnes.  Gone to a better land  7705/7706
KARNES, Cleo Morris, 12 Aug 1890 - 11 Feb 1928. 7703
KARNES, Ethel Isabel, 15 Aug 1887 - 12 Aug 1889, daughter of C. H. & S. E. Karnes. Weep not for me. 7710
KARNES, L. C., 29 Mar 1831 - 18 Apr 1891. Died suddenly. Mark the perfect man and behold the upright for the end is peace.  7704
LANDERS, Ryan Gale, 28 Jul 1941 - 23 Dec 1941. 7727
McMAHAN, Robert Harrison, 4 Jan 1903 - 11 Mar 1907. (marker set within last several years.) 7726
NELSON, Eugene L., 1886 - 1898. 7699
NELSON, Helen L., 1889 - 1890. 7707/7708
NELSON, Inez Tribble, 26 Feb 1892 - 31 Aug 1932. (Wife of Richard F. Nelson) At Rest 7712
NELSON, L. (Lewis) F. (Franklin) "Bud", (13 Jul ) 1855 - (5 May) 1938. ( Lincoln Co. native; h/o Martha A. Cartwright Nelson.) 7697
NELSON, Martha A., 1862 - 1937. 7697
NELSON, Martha L., 1897 - 1913. 7698/7711
NELSON, Mildred A., 1907 - 1926. 7700
NELSON, Bobby Gene, 29 Oct 1931. "Son" 7701
NELSON, M. S., 5 May 1826 - 7 Mar 1855. 7744C/7744/7745/7747/7749
NELSON,, E. (Elizabeth) W., 11 Nov 1801 in Virginia - 9 Jan 1876, age 75 yrs., wife of John L. Nelson, married on 1 Feb 1825, mother of Mrs. John A. Tillman., (Obit. Wellden). Stone crumbled & no longer readable - footstone remains E.W.N. 7746/7748/7749
NELSON, J (John) L., 21 Oct 1803 - 4 Oct 1888. 7752/7753
NELSON, John Will, 12 Oct 1872 - 14 Aug 1958, (McConnell Funeral Home Marker 1989; lost grave now - 9 Dec 2010).
NELSON, Orion C., 27 Aug 1888 - 20 Apr 1942. 7728
NELSON, Richard F. (Franklin), 18 May 1890 - 4 Jul 1956 At Rest. 7712
SMITH, Andrew J., 23 Dec 1826 in North Carolina - 2 Nov 1877. 7756/7759
SMITH, Dyonitia L. Nelson, 7 Oct 1838 in Giles Co. Tn. - 31 Dec 1879, wife of Andrew J. Smith.  7757/7759
SMITH, William E., 20 Aug 1865 - 9 Oct 1879, son of A. J. & D. L. Smith.  7758/7759
TILMAN, Mary P., 20 Jan 1849 - 24 Sep 1889, (daughter of late A. J. Tilman and sister of William Tilman of Athens.) Gone Home. 7734/7735
TILMAN, James L., 19 Jul 1855 - 12 Apr 1870. 7736/7737
TILMAN, J. (John) A., 4 Jan 1825  - 8 Aug 1884 born in Giles Co. Tenn; Limestone Co. Al.; former sheriff of Limestone Co. Al.; Mason. 7738/7743
TILMAN, Elizabeth J. (Nelson), 8 Sep 1829 - 20 Feb 1896, wife of J. A. Tilman. Mother. 7739/7740/7741/7742/7743

Unknown stones most of them are marking an unknown grave: 7713/7715/7716/7717/7718/7719/7720/7721/7722/
7723/7725/7754/7755
Base of concrete marker or footstone - Inscribed top missing: 7714/7715
Small stone angel - unknown: 7724

Photography 9 Dec 2010, typing by Faye Bradford, programming by Mary Bob McClain Richardson. Added here by Wayne Austin 28 Jul 2011.
Also published in the book "Tombstone Inscriptions of Limestone County Alabama" Page 336-337, by Linda Nelson abt 1991