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Jackson Plantation Black Cemetery

Lauderdale County, Alabama, USA

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Get directions Lauderdale County, Alabama, USA

Coordinates: 34.84820, -87.72085
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This is a cemetery for the Black servants in and around the Jackson Plantation at the Forks of the Cypress. The burial grounds are about 200 feet to the East of the Plantation Family Cemetery. There are only 2 visible conventional markers (no visible inscriptions) and numerous large rock markers scattered through out. The whole cemetery is covered with indented areas where most of the graves have sunken in. The names for the persons there are derived from the 1840 and 1870 US Census records of the Slaves owned by the different families in, and immediately around, the plantation. The most notable of persons is "Ester", the great grandmother of author Alex Haley. At this time it would be an impossible task to have a age or year of death for everyone. Each persons age will be given when it was recorded for a Census. While it may seem that the name list is very large, a visual survey of the grounds would support at least that many visible sunken graves. There is still a very visible beaten path leading to the cemetery, past the family cemetery, from the hundreds of times that it was used.

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