Established after the Civil War, in memory of its pioneers who battled with the Indians, endured hardships and conquered the soil that civilization might live. — — Map (db m261303) HM
The first marked grave in this burial ground is than of an infant who died in 1862. Other burials include those of a Mr. Jones, a well-digger killed by Indians in 1863, and Dory Booher and Ben Steadham, former Confederate soldiers who had been . . . — — Map (db m290746) HM
Named by early settlers for a town mentioned in the Biblical Book of Job, Uz was a farming community whose economy was based on the cotton crop. In existence by the 1870s, the town reached its peak in the early 1900s. At its height the community . . . — — Map (db m261302) HM
