LOVE-WILBURN CEMETERY, near Douglas Rd., MADISON COUNTY ALABAMA

Mapping the Location

 

Area Views of the cemetery premises: 1262/1263/1264/1265/2847/2848/2849/2850/2851/2852

LOVE, John, Aug 12, 1780 - Mar 3, 1818 1261/2842L/footstone J.L.:2840 (One of the oldest deaths set on a monument in Madison Co. Al.
LOVE, Elizabeth "Betsy" Wilburn, Oct 18, 1780 d. Sep 11, 1859, born in Virginia. 1260/2841
McGAHA, James Madison, 1829 - Oct 7, 1892 (This is not near Whitesburg. I doubt if he lies here, but where is his grave monument today?)
WILBURN, Benjamin O., Nov 25, 1796 - Dec 25, 1840 1258/footstone B.O.W.:2838
WILBURN, Eliza J., Jul 10, 1809 - Dec 27, 1853 (wife of Benjamin O. Wilburn.) 1257/2831/2832/footstone E.J.W.:2836

Base of a broken stone next to large Cedar. Likely it belongs to one of the broken headstones. 1259

This cemetery was surveyed in the late evening. Digital cameras have a way of making it look  a night view or later than it was. Surveyed on 24 Oct 2014 at about 4:30 PM

Based on the photography of C. Wayne Austin visited 24 Oct 2014. This cemetery was shown in the book Madison County Cemeteries Vol 1, page 180 by the Dorothy Scott Johnson. Vandals have visited the cemetery since then and even more stones are broken since the Findagrave visitor in 2009