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Mattox-Gilliland Family Cemetery

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Location	:	Shady Grove, Etowah County, USA
Description	:	Johnny Maddox, his wife, and around 16 children moved to this area from Georgia close to where the cemetery is in the early 1800's in an oxen-pulled covered wagon. Sometime after moving here the family was struck by a fever and most of the family died. The cemetery was started with this family. In 1963 the Church of Latter-Day Saints did a cemetery survey. this cemetery was listed as having 22 graves originally but on a few visible ones remain. They surmised the graves had been disinterred and moved. The land around the cemetery was a field and the man... Read More	Johnny Maddox, his wife, and around 16 children moved to this area from Georgia close to where the cemetery is in the early 1800's in an oxen-pulled covered wagon. Sometime after moving here the family was struck by a fever and most of the family died. The cemetery was started with this family. In 1963 the Church of Latter-Day Saints did a cemetery survey. this cemetery was listed as having 22 graves originally but on a few visible ones remain. They surmised the graves had been disinterred and moved. The land around the cemetery was a field and the man who owned the field in the early 1900's, Orval Wigley, plowed closer and closer to the graves, covering some over. In the 1960's there was a barbed wire fence with cows surrounding it. When I was a child in the 1960's , my cousins and I would wander through the cemetery. The barbed wire fence was broken in places and the cows walked over and broke some of the rocks. Some of the rock markers were large cut slabs stood like an A-frame. My parents' families lived around this cemetery since the 1800's. There were no burial or disinterrments that anyone recall. My Aunt J recalls; There used to be a big Cedar Tree at the Cemetery, wonder if it still stands. I had heard they quit buryng people in the cemetery because it was so rocky to dig a grave, I believe Mother was the one who told me that. and then they started buryng them at Shady Grove. There really were a lot of graves back when I was growing up and more markers than what the pic shows. There were markers all the way down nearly to the creek. On Sunday, November 4th 2012 a grave dowser went there and found well over 100 gravesites, laid out in neat rows, extending from the visible cemetery to the paved road and down almost to the pond. Some of the sites were actually under pavement. He surmised this was once a church cemetery or a large community cemeterry. There is no history of a church there. There was an influenza epidemic in this area in the late 1800's and again in 1919. Each epidemic killed thousands of people. This could very well have been a community dessimated by the flu, with many quick deaths and burials. The large slab coverings over the graves were consistant with the late 1800's and early 1900's. Family members remember several of the slab covered graves. Maddox, Harris, and Holliday are the names of the families buried there. There was a couple, last name Harris, the wife's sister (or maybe their daughter, possibly Lucinda Harris, wife of S. H. Holliday), the original Maddox family, and a S. H. Holliday. There is only one stone slab visible now as a grave. There are only 7 graves that you can actually see now. There are only two markers with names.

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