This cemetery site is actually about eight miles out of the town of Talladega.

Located about 8 miles east of Talladaga on the road to Jemison's (Turner's) Mill.
Approximately 300ft from Choccolocco Bridge, SE of creek, East side of Highway.

Note from photographer:
Site of Marble Springs Church Cemetery in cultivated field off of Eastaboga Road in Talladega County, Alabama. Grave slab of Susan Bowie and Adele Reed at upper left in front of broken slab, then Laura Lilias Bowie, Thomas S. Bowie, and Alex J. Bowie in row extending to right.

The Church and Cemetery were reported as gone, but we found some tombstones in the area. In 1973 a cotton field covered the original site, according to reports, but we learned that there was a Restoration Committee and members of the Talladega County Historical Association said the President of the Cemetery Association was Judith Lavender, who was knowledeable about this restored cemetery. Well, it hasn't yet been restored.

Certain people were said to have been buried at this site, including "The Cunningham family". See current burials noted and the picture of the cemetery that has been added.

Updated info.: "Joseph T. Cunningham family is interred at the Boswell-Cunningham cemetery and the Montgomery's or at Indian Hills Farm Cemetery." Andrew Cunningham is still here, as far as is reported.

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Marble Springs Church was organized in March of 1837 by Rev. Robert Holman with ruling Elders Alexander English, Wm. Caruthers, and Clerk of Session Robert McElhaney. The following year James Montgomery and his brother, William, were chosen Elders, as they had been "Elders of Thyatira Church in Jackson County, Georgia". The Montgomery's and their descendants continued to be ruling Elders until the church ceased to exist.

Marble Springs was one of the most prominent Presbyterian Churches of the county for many years and may have been called "Mother Church" because it had the largest membership. During the 1840's some of the county's most prominent citizens were added to the roll, including: Alexander Bowie, Jane Jack, Mrs. Reutelia H. Isbell, Joseph T. Cunningham, Wm. B. McClelland, Samuel People, and Craig Orr. In 1848 there were seventy-two members, with thirty-seven families and eighty-four members by 1851.

The Sunday School was eliminated in 1880, due to newly organized non-denominational Sunday schools in other local communities. The church was sold some years afterward and a cotton gin operated in the building for a short time. The church building, visible as it was in the 1930's in the posted photographs, eventually fell into ruin and the field in which it stood returned to cultivation by the 1950's.

From "Historic Tales Of Talladega" c. 1959 by E. Grace Jemison which was the source of this description.