WOODRUFFS Chapel Submitted by Mary McPherson <mailto:> Can anyone give us more information or an exact loaction for this church and cemetery? The Building was originally used as a community building for all sects. On 11 Aug 1857 NATHAN WATSON for the sum of $15.00 deeded the 10 1/2 acres on which the church building, graveyard and spring existed to the trustees of the Methodist Church with MATHEW WOODRUFF and DRURY MCPHERSON. First of all, I don't find a deed from Nathan Watson to either Mathew Woodruff or Drury McPherson. I looked in the Grantor Index period from 1820-1900. I also looked in the Grantee Index for the same period. Both Nathan Watson & Mathew Woodruff are listed on the 1860 Blount Co. AL census as residents of the Western Division (Summit Post Office) of Blount Co. I don't find Mathew Woodruff in the 1870 census but Nathan Watson is listed in the Thacker's Creek area. The GNIS page lists Thacker's Creek over in today's Cullman Co. The 1855 Blount Co. AL Tract book shows entries for Nathan Watson in Township 11S, Range 2W, Sec. 17 and Sec. 20. It also shows entries for Mathew Woodruff in Sec. 22 and 23 (same Township and Range) Using the Township/Range maps, and assuming Watson gave land that was in all probability part of his homestead, it appears the land would have been somewhere in the vicinity of Hanceville. This is only an assumption because I've not located an actual deed. Hopewell is a possibility because Nathan Watson's daughter Elizabeth (Mrs. Jonathan Burns) is buried there.