Greenhill in Lauderdale County, Alabama — The American South (East South Central)

Tabernacle Cemetery

Lauderdale County

Photographed by Jimmy Emerson, September 6, 2026

1. Tabernacle Cemetery Marker

Inscription. This is one of the earliest community burial grounds in Lauderdale County. The oldest dated gravestone is for Catherine Hill, first wife of Green Berry Hill, for whom the community is named. She died on June 8, 1825. George Kennedy deeded five acres of land in 1874 to the Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church South for the establishment of a church and cemetery. Two early circuit rider preachers are buried here, Rev. Henry Hill and Rev. William Walker. Other early families buried here include Cauhorn, Chisholm, Hill, Kennedy, Killen, LeMaster, Richardson, Strong, and Swinea. Veterans from the American Revolutionary War through the Vietnam War are interred here. The cemetery is located at Green Hill on the west side of The Andrew Jackson's Military Road.

Erected 2011 by Family and friends of Tabernacle Cemetery.

Topics and series. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Religion & Religious Structures • War, US Revolutionary • War, Vietnam. In addition, it is included in the Former U.S. Presidents: #07 Andrew Jackson series list. A significant historical month for this entry is June 1864.

Location. 34° 57.45′ N,

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87° 31.4′ W. Marker is in Greenhill, Alabama, in Lauderdale County. It is at the intersection of County Road 47 and County Road 140, on the left when traveling north on County Road 47. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Florence AL 35634, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in North Alabama

and in the Shoals.

It is also in the American South,

specifically in the Deep South,

in Appalachia,

and specifically in Southern Appalachia. Globally, it is in North America,

a Gulf of Mexico state,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture,

one of the Confederate States of America,

and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 8 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: World War I (approx. 0.3 miles away); Kennedy Gun Factory (approx. 0.9 miles away); Old Pleasant Grove Primitive Baptist Church & Cemetery (approx. 2.1 miles away); Lone Cedar Church of Christ (approx. 3.2 miles away); Shoals Creek Preserve Tract

Tabernacle Church Marker image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Sandra Hughes, August 24, 2013

2. Tabernacle Church Marker

(approx. 6.6 miles away); Town of Killen (approx. 6.9 miles away); Muscle Shoals Canal (approx. 7 miles away); Mount Pleasant Baptist Church (approx. 7.1 miles away).