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Cashin /
Banks /
Garth
Martha
Sword
(by tree)
Civil War
Horace King
Camp
June 3, 1903
Scott
Tomb
Skeggs
Broadus
Moseley
Cemetery
moved by
Chemstrand
Wyker’s
Bunker
T. M.
Jones
Davis
(Fennel
Family)
Kate
Lackner,
Nellie
and Ben
Strange
Jewish
Pickard / Derrick Monument
(Richard Hawes Riot,
Birmingham, Sheriff Joseph
Smith)
Rev. M.
J. Hook
Dr. William
Banks,
Captain
John
Brown
Stuart
H. A.
Skeggs
William M. Dancy
PrideCalvin and
Fannie
Brown
Collier /
Leadingham
Mayor H. S. Freeman
William A. Raney
Hoff
John Lile
McGehee
McEntire
Steamboat
Bill Hudson
Decatur City
Cemetery
(Oakwood)
Nelson /
Bloodworth
James M. Brundidge,
Grand Master Masons,
father of America Neville
(Minor Cemetery)
Sterrs
Addition
1960’s
Sterrs Addition Misc
1st burial Grace Wynn 2/23/66
Marker Ethyl Rogers d: 6/12/33
Bettie Black Pride 1872-1980 (108 yrs)
Wyker
Documentation
by Phil Wirey
Updated
2016
Nellie Lawton’s
Father
Belle
Bloodworth
Carolyn
Cortner
Smith
Once used as
chapel
Sue Murphy Nelson
(unmarked)
Mary
Broadus
Pruitt
George
Nichols
Judge W. W. Callahan
Ned Frazier
Nungester
Doctor
Memorial
(Gill –
Shadowlawn)
O. C.
Ludwig
(unmarked)
/ Hoxter
Polk /
Littlejohn /
Harris West
Ray / Nelson
Notable Decatur Cemetery Burials
• Named for Dr. Willis Sterrs and Eva Sterrs – the Guardian, Cottage Grove Infirmary
• Lafayette Garth – Fought in Civil War for the 111th US Colored Infantry, born on the
General Jesse Winston Garth Plantation, daughter Ada married Solomon Sykes
• Herschel Vivian Cashin – one of the first African American lawyers in Alabama
• Matthew Hewlitt Banks - second black city councilman, granddaughter Athylene
• Yellow Fever Doctor Memorial – Dr. William Gill and mass grave for yellow fever
victims – 1878 and 1888
• Oswald Cross Ludwig (1858-1918) – Secretary of State of Arkansas, newspaper
editor, enrolling clerk US Senate, Lizzie May his rich eccentric wife
• Little Martha Sword – September 1851 burial, moved from original cemetery?
• Oscar Pickard – police chief of Birmingham during the Richard Hawes Riot 1890’s
• Civil War Burial Site – one of three civil war burial sites
• Nelson and Bloodworth families – jeweler, mayor, editors, and judges
• Nellie Lawton and Belle Bloodworth – tragic endings
• Edward Mitchell Pride and Jane Beall Pride Harris plots – Pride/Harris/Candler
connections
• Calvin Brown - founder of Oakwood Cemetery and Fannie
• Christopher Columbus Harris and Edith West Harris – Dr. Anson and Marvin West
• Littlejohn and Polk Family – from the Dancy and President James K. Polk families
• Mary Broadus Pruitt – travels to China, schoolmate of Bear Bryant
• Banks and Stuart Family – first store built after Civil War
• George Nichols Gravesite - mystery man
• John Fletcher Scott - railroad contractor, builder of Scott Block Bank Street
• Judge W.W. Callahan – Scottsboro Boys Trial Judge
• Sue Murphy Nelson - lived in Rhodes Home and sued government for war
destruction
• George Asa Nelson / Lillian Ray – founder of Cedar Lake
• James Brundidge – Alabama’s Grand Master Masonic Lodge
• Samuel Sinclair Broadus - father was Dr. John A. Broadus, banker, historian
• Judge W. E. Skeggs – respected judge, ran stop light and shot policeman
• John D. Wyker – Ohio pharmacist, hardware store and munitions bunker
• Jewish section of cemetery – Lyons, Polytinsky, Lesser, Wohl
• Kate Lackner and Nellie Strange – wine, women, and song
• Captain William Moseley family – defender of Huntsville in Creek Indian War
• Nungester and Frazier - Decatur’s most famous artists and supporters of the arts