Near Salem in Limestone County, Alabama — The American South (East South Central)

Cunningham Cemetery

Limestone County

Photographed by Lee Hattabaugh, October 15, 2016

1. Cunningham Cemetery Marker

Inscription. The first known burial here is Charles Cunningham who died September 28, 1852. Many unmarked fieldstones are present that could mark older graves. The cemetery contains 82 identifiable burials with headstones. Six Confederate soldiers, WWI, and WWII veterans are buried here. Family names found here include Christopher, Cunningham, Daniel, Garner, Haney, Jackson, Jacobs, Ledlow, Seamans, Skeets, Smith, Townsend, Vinson, and Westmoreland. The Cunningham Cemetery is being preserved by descendants of those buried here. They hope this special place and those buried here are never forgotten.

Listed on the Alabama Historic Cemetery Register, April 1, 2016
Marker erected in 2016 by the Volunteer Cemetery Group

Erected 2016 by The Volunteer Cemetery Group.

Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Cemeteries & Burial Sites • War, US Civil • War, World I • War, World II. A significant historical date for this entry is September 28, 1852.

Location. 34° 56.115′ N, 87° 5.585′ W. Marker is near Salem, Alabama, in Limestone County. It is on Dupree Hollow Road (County Route 37) half a mile south of Easter Ferry Road (County Route 104), on the left when traveling south. Marker and Cemetery can also be reached

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from Buck Island Road (AL Hwy 99) by turning right (north) on Dupree Hollow Road and traveling about 1.75 miles. Marker on the right. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 25916 Dupree Hollow Road, Lester AL 35647, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in North Alabama

and in the Huntsville Metropolitan Area.

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 6 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Dupree Cemetery (approx. 0.4 miles away); Sim Corder/Harrison Mill (approx. 2.2 miles away); Abner Alloway Strange, Sr. (approx. 2.9 miles away); Sims Settlement (approx. 3.2 miles away); Gourdsville / Gilbertsboro (approx. 3.7 miles away); Bethel United Methodist Church (approx. 5.1 miles away in Tennessee); Bethel Masonic Lodge / Bethel: Giles County, Tennessee (approx. 5.1 miles away in Tennessee); Dr. Louie Edmundson (approx. 5.2 miles away in Tennessee). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Salem.

More about this marker. Marker dedicated by the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the local community on October 15, 2016.

Also see . . . Find A Grave. (Submitted on October 15, 2016, by Lee Hattabaugh of Capshaw, Alabama.)

Photographed by Lee Hattabaugh, October 15, 2016

2. Cunningham Cemetery Marker

Credits. This page was last revised on October 17, 2016. It was originally submitted on October 15, 2016, by Lee Hattabaugh of Capshaw, Alabama. This page has been viewed 1,237 times since then and 63 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on October 15, 2016, by Lee Hattabaugh of Capshaw, Alabama. • Bernard Fisher was the editor who published this page.