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Sam Parrish Cemetery

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Location	:	Dale County, USA
Description	:	Many old bones of early settlers of southeast Alabama countryside remain in unmarked family graveyards, deep below the soil of what is now over 63,000 acres of Fort Rucker. The Samuel Parrish Family Graveyard is but one example of such a final resting place in Dale County, Alabama. Published in the Southern Star Newspaper, Newton, Alabama, was a series of 3 articles written by W.L. Andrews from August 13, 20, and 27, 1913. The articles contain a wealth of history specific to the Samuel Parrish, Sr. family line however it is entirely too long to post. I will, however, post... Read More	Many old bones of early settlers of southeast Alabama countryside remain in unmarked family graveyards, deep below the soil of what is now over 63,000 acres of Fort Rucker. The Samuel Parrish Family Graveyard is but one example of such a final resting place in Dale County, Alabama. Published in the Southern Star Newspaper, Newton, Alabama, was a series of 3 articles written by W.L. Andrews from August 13, 20, and 27, 1913. The articles contain a wealth of history specific to the Samuel Parrish, Sr. family line however it is entirely too long to post. I will, however, post the portions that specifically mention the Sam Parrish Graveyard and some accompanying historical and geographical pertinent information. W.L. Andrews Writes interesting Letter: Makes Pleasant Trip to West Dale August 20, 1913 "Samuel Parrish, wife, ten sons, and three daughters came to this country and settled a large territory up and down both sides of the Claybanks between Daleville and Pleasant Hill sections. Then followed the family Samuel Parrish Sr. landing here in 1834 he came from Kershaw County, South Carolina. He settled first near Jordan Brooks old mill owned at present (1913) by S.T. and Reese Parish. Soon after he crossed over into the forks of Big Claybank and Bowls Creek, settling out in what is now an old field some 200 ya¬¬rds West of Charley Throwers residence at the present time (1913). No sign of the settlement now (1913) remains except the stump of a tree. One hundred yards a little west of north from the house spot is an old graveyard in a skirt of a virgin forest. His wife was the first one buried here and he paled it in with pickets of torch pine. A year ago (1912) fire burned down the enclosure and only pieces of the posts remain to mark the grave. When Samuel Parish Sr. died, he was buried on the north side of his companion's grave. His son Emmanuel married Martha Dowling and settled on the south side of the road leading from James Parrish's mill to Samuel Parrish Sr's. Here his (Emmanuel's) first wife died and she lies in the Sam Parish graveyard. The grave is unmarked. When Emmanuel died he was buried in the Beulah Primitive Baptist graveyard on the road leading from Ozark to Daleville. Samuel Parrish's son James married Anna Dowling. She is buried in the Sam Parish graveyard. James was married a second time to Elizabeth Boddie she died in Texas and James married a third time to a Miss Thompson of Virginia. James is buried north of Waco TX a few miles widow survived the last known of her. But I must hasten onto the Sam Parrish Sr old place. This old home is now owned by sheriff Early W. Parish and it has a fine crop on it. In the old graveyard in the virgin forest a short distance to the northwest are buried: Samuel Parrish Sr., a revolutionary war soldier and his wife Jack Parrish and Elizabeth parish son and daughter of Hampton Parrish Mrs. Annie Parrish wife of James Parrish Patsy Parrish wife of Emmanuel Parish two negroes, some children, and probably others At the time the above article was written, 1913, the Sam Parrish Graveyard was located in the Westville section of Dale County, Alabama. If you look on a current 2020 map, you would need to imagine it being approximately one to two miles west of Lake Tholocco, which is located within the bounds of US Army Fort Rucker. In the 1930s, a 35,000-acre tract of land in Dale and Coffee counties consisting of numerous farmsteads and small towns was purchased by the federal government, buildings demolished, and converted into a wildlife refuge -- the Pea River Land Use Project. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the creation of new training camps and military bases was a priority of the federal government. In January 1942, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers completed construction plans for the 4,600 acre cantonment area of the camp. In fewer than the 120 days allotted, 500 buildings, developed streets, utilities, wells, railroads, sidetracks and other facilities had been completed and the Ozark Triangular Division Camp officially opened on May 1, 1942. One of the more ambitious components of this project was building an earthen dam across Claybank Creek to create 850-acre Lake Tholocco. An additional 30,000 acres of land between Newton and Enterprise, AL including all privately owned lands within the boundaries of the former wildlife refuge, were purchased in September 1942. Later that year, 1,259 supplementary acres south of Daleville were acquired for the construction of an airfield to support the camp. The name has changed over the years Pea River Land Use Project, Camp Rucker, Ozark Triangular Division Camp, however, is now known as Fort Rucker.

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