Nazarene Cemetery

Nazarene Cemetery. . , Among the nearly four hundred graves in Nymph's Historic Nazarene Cemetery are the unmarked resting places of enslaved men and women brought to this rural Conecuh County community by their owner Stephen D. Miller Jr. in 1850. These included Dan and Dilsey Taylor, Isaiah Richardson, London and Serena Richardson, Ezra and Sarah Moye, Armstead Ferguson, Ben Sims, Wallace Stephens, Spencer Taylor, Sam Taylor, and Albert Ausby, to name a few. Many of these men and women remained in the Nymph community after freedom came at the end of the Civil War. They were skilled carpenters, midwives, business owners, and religious leaders. Their legacy still lives on in their descendants, some of whom made significant contributions to the state, nation, and the world. , The cemetery was later affiliated with the Greater Nazarene Missionary Baptist Church, established in 1875. It is Conecuh County's oldest and largest African American Baptist congregation. Throughout much of Conecuh County's history, there existed few places other than Nazarene Cemetery for the burial of African Americans. The oldest marked grave is dated February 1907. The site includes the graves of more than a dozen veterans of the world wars, Korea, and Vietnam., The Nazarene Cemetery was added to the Alabama Historic Cemetery Register in 2018.