HAMMOND FAMILY CEMETERY, Hammond Lane, MADISON COUNTY ALABAMA

Mapping the Location

Area Views of the cemetery premises: 3415/3416/3436/3448/3449/3450

HAMMOND, Carey, Jr., Aug 9, 1910 - Jan 8, 1999 US Navy WW II 3426/military:3442
HAMMOND, Carrie M., May 19, 1913 - Apr 2, 1986 3443
HAMMOND, Cary, 1864 - 1933 3433
HAMMOND, Darryl Glenn, Dec 30, 1955 - May 2, 2010 Private 1st Class US Army 3417
HAMMOND, Maude Baldwin, Jul 12, 1911 - Mar 14, 2016 3419
HAMMOND, William Clifton, 1909 - 1998 3419
HAMMONDS, Ed Redeemer, Feb 22, 1907 - Dec 4, 1983 3424/3425
HAMMONDS, Elijah, Jun 7, 1915 - Jul 7, 1973 3430/3431
HAMMONDS, Emma Moore, 1907 - 1996 3422/3423
HAMMONDS, Joseph, May 7, 1913 - Aug 11, 1993 3445/3446
HAMMONDS, Joseph Louis, Feb 25, 1936 - Feb 20, 2011 3447
HAMMONDS, Lula, Oct 4, 1879 - Apr 22, 1968 3432
HAMMONDS, Michael Keith, Nov 16, 1958 - Mar 5, 2002 3418
HAMMONDS, Sgt Clarence, 1917 - 1977 Staff Sergeant US Army WW II.  3429
HILL, Frances Hammond, Oct 4, 1900 - Apr 26, 1969 3437
HUMPHREY, Martha E., Mar 2, 1927 - Feb 3, 2000 Mother 3427
HUMPHREY, Deacon Samuel Lee, Jul 25, 1912 - May 4, 1982 Sgt US Army WW II 3428/military:3440
JONES, Elizabeth H., Oct 7, 1905 - Aug 5, 1987 3444
SEAY, Leamon, Jun 30, 1920 - Feb 21, 1998 Son of Richard and Dora Seay. 3421/3420
SLEDGE, Martha Hammonds, Sep. 10, 1884 - Nov 10, 1960 3434/3435

Unknown Souls - Old funeral Marker, ornaments and  flowers - marking graves: 3438/3439

I once ask a little ole lady sitting in her yard if the cemetery down the road was a black or white cemetery. She smiled and said "Just Gods People".  I smiled and agreed and went on my merry way. So this cemetery is "just Gods people."

Small cemeteries will either take one or two routes. They become a neighborhood cemetery and continue to grow and are maintained or they become abandoned after the last of the family dies out.  If luck ensues the cemetery will fall into the hands of a landowner who respects it and continues to maintain it with the help of remaining family. If not, it will become abandoned and possibly be a thorn in the side of a land owner who may be naturally unkempt anyway. To him a cemetery on his property is largely just an annoyance getting in the way of his productive gainful use of land. It is that scenario where problems begin to unfold in the decline and destruction of a small family cemetery. The longer that a cemetery goes after the last burial the more likely it will become abandoned. I have noticed many cemeteries set prior to 1870 in dense thickets that have fallen into ruin.

Listings & Links developed by C Wayne Austin using photos dated 10 Jul 2012. Added here with appropriate commentary & editing 23 Jun 2017. This cemetery was listed in the book Madison County Cemeteries Vol 1 page 41 by Dorothy Scott Johnson.