Near Duncanville in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama — The American South (East South Central)
Gilgal Cemetery
Tuscaloosa County
Photographed by Bob Jones, August 12, 2021
1. Gilgal Cemetery Marker
Inscription.
Gilgal Cemetery is associated with Gilgal Baptist Church and has a history dating to the early 1840s. The cemetery contains over 200 marked and an unknown number of unmarked burials. Church history states that many babies were buried near the road and their graves were unmarked. An African-American section contains over 50 burials. The cemetery has been expanded at least twice in 1943 and 1978. The cemetery is diversified and holds the earthly remains for early settlers, sharecroppers, farmers, veterans of wars, educators, preachers, and community members. Gilgal Cemetery provides powerful insights about the diligence and commitment of our ancestors. The Alabama Historical Commission listed this cemetery in the Alabama Historic Cemetery Register on March 6, 2014. Continued preservation of this cemetery ensures that those who are buried here will never vanish from our memory.
Gilgal Cemetery is associated with Gilgal Baptist Church and has a history dating to the early 1840s. The cemetery contains over 200 marked and an unknown number of unmarked burials. Church history states that many babies were buried near the road and their graves were unmarked. An African-American section contains over 50 burials. The cemetery has been expanded at least twice
in 1943 and 1978. The cemetery is diversified and holds the earthly remains for early settlers, sharecroppers, farmers, veterans of wars, educators, preachers, and community members. Gilgal Cemetery provides powerful insights about the diligence and commitment of our ancestors. The Alabama Historical Commission listed this cemetery in the Alabama Historic Cemetery Register on March 6, 2014. Continued preservation of this cemetery ensures that those who are buried here will never vanish from our memory.
Erected 2019 by Gilgal Baptist Church and Alabama Historical Commission.
33° 7.448′ N, 87° 30.016′ W. Marker is near Duncanville, Alabama, in Tuscaloosa County. It is on Bear Creek Road 0.1 miles west of Argonne Forest Drive, on the right when traveling west. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Duncanville AL 35456, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this marker is in the American South and specifically in the Deep South. 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.
More about this marker. Marker is located in the interior of the cemetery off of Bear Creek Road
Credits. This page was last revised on August 28, 2023. It was originally submitted on August 27, 2023, by Bob Jones of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. This page has been viewed 298 times since then and 28 times this year. Photo1. submitted on August 27, 2023, by Bob Jones of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. • James Hulse was the editor who published this page.
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