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Bynum Slave Cemetery

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Location	:	Courtland, Lawrence County, USA
Description	:	Altho this cemetery carries the title of being a Slave Cemetery, we know that burials occurred long after the time of slavery. There are approximately 100 burials in this cemetery according to Mr. Charles Jordan who is in his late 80s. Mr. Jordon believes this cemetery to be the slave cemetery for the slaves who lived and worked on the Oakley Bynum plantation. The following information was abstracted from a newspaper article where Ginger Grantham interviewed Mr. Charles Jordan about the Bynum Cemeteries. The article was published in The Moulton Advertiser dated Wednesday 1 February... Read More	Altho this cemetery carries the title of being a Slave Cemetery, we know that burials occurred long after the time of slavery. There are approximately 100 burials in this cemetery according to Mr. Charles Jordan who is in his late 80s. Mr. Jordon believes this cemetery to be the slave cemetery for the slaves who lived and worked on the Oakley Bynum plantation. The following information was abstracted from a newspaper article where Ginger Grantham interviewed Mr. Charles Jordan about the Bynum Cemeteries. The article was published in The Moulton Advertiser dated Wednesday 1 February 2006 and titled "Grave yards hold some mysteries". Mr. Jordon talks about his early remembrances of going to decorations at the slave cemetery with the Blacks and how he marked the gravesites in the late 1960s or early 1970s with metal cemetery plaques. He said that he marked the graves he could find at that time which numbered about 30 to 40 gravesites. He went on to say that when he was a young boy attending the decorations he remembered there to be around a hundred unmarked graves. At the time of the interview he was unable to even find the graves which he had marked in the 1960-70 time period. He remembered an old Black man who told him that he was born a slave, but Mr. Jordon could not remember his name. He did remember that in the slave cemetery there was only one marker and that was for William McDonald, who died on April 13, 1918 according to the inscription he was 26 years old. We located a transcription of Mr. McDonalds death certificate on Familysearch.org showing that he died 13 Oct 1918 in Camp Grant, Rockford, Winnebago, Illinois at the age of 30, that his estimated birth year was 1888 that he was a soldier and resided at Camp Grant, Rockford, Winnebago, Illinois and was buried at Courtland, Alabama.

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