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In honor of the Revolutionary Soldiers buried in Madison County

 
 
In honor of the Revolutionary Soldiers buried in Madison County Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Sandra Hughes Tidwell, March 21, 2025
1. In honor of the Revolutionary Soldiers buried in Madison County Marker
Inscription. Benjamin Adkins • Sergt. Robert Allen • John Amonette • Samuel Ayers • Richard Bacon • Eldridge Bailes • Moses Bailey • Uriah Bass • Hezekiah Baylis • Col. Peter Efford Bentley • Edward Beville • Clement Blackbourn • William Campbell • Hugh Caruthers • Jacob Caulk • Richard Cavatte • Robert Clarke • James Collier • John William Conmally • James Cotton • Robert Cozby • Ezekiel Craft • Robert David • Samuel Davis • Thomas Davis • Richard Dean • John Drake • William Eddins • Benjamin Eddins • William Fletcher • Sturdy Garner • Benjamin Glover • Captain John Graham • William Gray • Jeremiah Gurley • John Hague • Capt. Eli Hammond • Philip Hamman • Robert Hancock • Francis Eppes Harris • Henry Harris • Capt. Richard Harris • Robert Higginbotham • Joseph Hillsman • Jeremiah Jaggers • Corp. Richard Johnson • Capt. Lewellen Jones • Lieut. Nathan Jones • George Jude • Jabez Leftwich • Daniel Long • John McCartney • James McIlkeny • David McNeely • William C. Maples • Andrew Martin • Solomon Massengale • John Milam • John Moore, Jr. • Col. Michael Moulton • Matthew Nail • Joseph Nelson • Thomas Nesmith • William Petty • Philip Pence • Charles Pigg • Col. LeRoy Pope • Lieut. Jon Peyton Powell • William Pruitt • Shadrack Ready • Joel Rice • Lt. Col. Albert Russel • Joseph Sawyer • Reuben Stone • Maj. George Taylor • James Tribble • William Walling • John Ward Sr. • Isaac Welborn • Hawley Williamson • Elish Winn • Gallenus Winn • Maj. Daniel Wright • Robert Wright

Plaque on Backside
In honor of these Revolutionary Soldiers, the Twickenham Town Chapter NSDAR erected this monument on the Madison County Courthouse steps in Huntsville in 1939 after twenty
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years of Fundraising. In 1966, due to Courthouse Construction, the plaque was removed, and the Boulder was placed at another location. After years of searching, we proudly celebrate the preservation, reunion, and relocation of this monument. Special thanks are given to Madison Garden Club. Madison American Legion Post 229, Madison County Commission, The City of Huntsville, the leadership of Veterans's Park, and Honorary Regent Lorraine Ennis
2016

Donated in Honor of Zela Given Morring and Marylin Jones Morring

Left Side Monument
Twickenham Town Chapter NSDAR 2023
Charles Dement • Owen Evans • George Hallmark • William Hogan • Coby Jackson • Charles King • Michael Mason • Daniel Mcduff • Andrew Neely • Daniel Rather • John Whiteaker

Right Side Monument
Set on the Cusp of the 250th Anniversary of 1776
John Osby Buinford • Zachariah Greenhill Leigh • Henry Harless • Richard Holmes • Fleming Jordan • Benjamin Lynm • James McCracken • Andrew McElroy • Moses Poor • John Slaughter
 
Erected 1939 by Twickenham Town Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution.
 
Topics. This memorial
In honor of the Revolutionary Soldiers buried in Madison County Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Sandra Hughes Tidwell, March 21, 2025
2. In honor of the Revolutionary Soldiers buried in Madison County Marker
is listed in this topic list: War, US Revolutionary.
 
Location. 34° 44.115′ N, 86° 35.348′ W. Memorial is in Huntsville, Alabama, in Madison County. It is on Monroe Street Northwest. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 200 Monroe St NW, Huntsville AL 35801, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in North Alabama. 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 original Cherokee Nation, 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 walking distance of this marker: Alabama Gold Star Families Memorial Monument (a few steps from this marker); Purple Heart Monument (within shouting distance of this marker); World War II - Pacific Theater of Operations (PTO)
In honor of the Revolutionary Soldiers buried in Madison County Marker (Backside) image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Sandra Hughes Tidwell, March 21, 2025
3. In honor of the Revolutionary Soldiers buried in Madison County Marker (Backside)
(within shouting distance of this marker); Korean War / 1950-1953 (within shouting distance of this marker); ETO 1939-1945 / PTO 1941-1945 (within shouting distance of this marker); 1959-1975 / Vietnam War / Vietnam War (within shouting distance of this marker); Cold War-Global 1945- / Cold War-Germany 1945-1990 (within shouting distance of this marker); Gulf War-1991 / War on Terrorism (within shouting distance of this marker). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Huntsville.
 
Set on the Cusp of the 250th Anniversary of 1776 image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Sandra Hughes Tidwell, March 21, 2025
4. Set on the Cusp of the 250th Anniversary of 1776
Twickenham Town Chapter NSDAR 2023 image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Sandra Hughes Tidwell, March 21, 2025
5. Twickenham Town Chapter NSDAR 2023
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on March 27, 2025. It was originally submitted on March 24, 2025, by Sandra Hughes Tidwell of Killen, Alabama, USA. This page has been viewed 440 times since then and 181 times this year. Photos:   1, 2, 3, 4, 5. submitted on March 24, 2025, by Sandra Hughes Tidwell of Killen, Alabama, USA. • James Hulse was the editor who published this page.
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