CLIFT CEMETERY, (south side of Hwy 72 in present day shopping center), MADISON COUNTY, ALABAMA

Clift Lots in Old Madison City Cemetery
Mapping the location
 

Area photos of the Clift Cemetery moved to the Madison (Old City) Cemetery and combined with later generations  appears to be at least 3 generations: 1592 / 1588 / 3415

CLIFT, John H., 5 Sep 1821 - 25  May 1893. 1583C / 1583 / 1584C / 1584 / 1593 / 1595 / 1596 / footstone J.H.C.: 1596C
CLIFT, Mary (Carouthers), 4 Aug 1820 - 24 Jun 1897. (wife of John H. Clift) 1581 / 1582

These graves and/or stones were moved to the Old Madison City Cemetery behind city hall to the Clift Lots. I am unaware of the time and particulars of that, if the graves were moved or abandoned and just the stones moved. They showed up on findagrave on 6 July of 2012 as added by Susan Bennett. The shopping center was built in 2013 and any possibility of finding any other lost graves were destroyed in that expansion if due diligence was not utilized prior to that.  Madison Building Permits may have information on the construction and how that related to this cemetery which was abolished in a 10 foot deep excavation assuming the graves (not the gravestones) were still there.

Other Clifts' in the Clift Lots or Old Madison City Cemetery:

CLIFT, Charles Frank, (FG#93132908), 19 Jun 1881 - 6 Jun 1958. 1590 / 1591
CLIFT, Josie Maud, (FG#93133042), 10 Nov 1882 - 20 May 1973. 1589 / 1591
CLIFT, John Thomas, (FG#93133652), 2 Sep 1853 - 18 May 1926. 1585 / 1587
CLIFT, Sallie Cain Carter, (FG#93133470), 18 May 1862 - 6 Jan 1945. 1586 / 1587
CLIFT, Thomas W., (FG#10469830), 24 May 1893 -  14 Nov 1969. 3415C / 3415
CLIFT, Lessie B., (FG#10469826), 27 Feb 1897 - 15 Jun 1991.  3415C / 3415

Listings & Links developed by C. Wayne Austin 12 Nov 2014. No evidence of the original cemetery was found. Added here 12 Nov 2014. This cemetery was shown in the book Madison County Cemeteries Vol 1 page 229 by Dorothy Scott Johnson. Photos by Susan Bennett 6 Jul 2012 in the Old Madison Cemetery.