>Date: 7 Jul 2002 18:13:50 -0600 >From: maxbp@ustconline.net >To: ALELMORE-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <MFMBM009lAhPfj74eef000043b5@mfmbm009.myfamilycorp.local> >Subject: [ALElmore] Need help with cemetery name(s) >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > >Classification: Query > >Message Board URL: > >http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VS.2ADI/636 > >Message Board Post: > >Some say Shoal Creek Cemetery and ohters call it Coosa River >Cemetery. Which is correct or can both names be used in referring >to same cemetery? Will someone please clear this up for me, I would >be most grateful. I don't suppose you should consider this authoritative, but I do have some knowledge of the two names and will tell you what I know. The modern day church there is Shoal Creek Baptist Church. There's a small white building bearing a sign for the old Coosa River Primitive Baptist Church -- if memory serves, it says it was constituted in 1821. My copy of "Historical Atlas of Alabama, Volume 2: Cemeteries by County" shows Shoal Creek as the church and Coosa River as the cemetery, on opposite sides of the road. I'd have to concur with the naming. But since the cemetery (particularly the portion on the same side of the road as the church) predates the new church by a great many years, it's ALL named Coosa River to me and others familiar with the area. I've got countless relatives (and at least one direct ancestor) dating back quite some time on one side or the other. = Steve = -- Steve W. Jackson Montgomery, Alabama Surnames: Jackson, Kincaid, Culver, Wingard, Thornton, Grier, Wise, Smith, Gray