Chuck, this was extracted from a Tuscaloosa wills or probate or orphans court book when I was studying them in the D.A.R. I probably have the exact book noted somewhere, but it appears that genealogist Pauline Gandrud entered the following data into offical Tuscaloosa records: (the Czarina M. Aikin referred to below is my ancestor, aka Czarina M. Stewart, and C. M. Burford.) =======quote======== AIKIN PRIVATE CEMETERY On a place now (1951) owned by Louis C. Conant, about 5 miles on Greensboro road from Tuscaloosa, are some broken tombstones, now used for a sidewalk. The Conants have owned the place only a short time and the sidewalk had been there for years. Parts of three stones were taken from a family cemetery back of the place, but no one knows where the cemetery ws and we could not find it. Probably all the stones were removed and it was plowed under. We pieced the stones together with the following results. Copied 1950 by Pauline Jones Gandrud: Sacred to the memory of ROBERT AIKIN who was born in State of Pennsylvania March 13th 1760 and departed this life May 26th 1827 He was a whig Soldier in the war living and dying without reproach (the above stone in 3 pieces) Erected to the memory of MARGARET JULIA ANN AIKIN who was born in Chester District South Carolina January 15th 1800 and departed this lief (stone broken through date but thin that is right) after a series of afflictions Septpember 22nd 1834 She bore the chastening of Providence with exemplary fortitude and died in Christian hope Blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted Matt. v 4 (stone in 3 pieces) In memory of John Franklin Aikin infant son of James L.G. Aikin and Czarina M. Aikin who was born June 22nd 1836 and departed this life November 23rd of the same year aged 5 months (verse) stone in 2 pieces =-=-=-=-=-=-=unquote=--=-=-=-= Thank you Mrs Gandrud! What you had the foresight to do paid dividends to me forty years later in the 1990s! because Czarina M. Aikin is my Great Great Great Grandfather, Solomon B. Stewart's daughter! Fyi, after James L.G. Aiken died, she married a Leonard Mitchell Burford from Wilcox County. He died too, and Czarina is buried next to her mother and sisters in Cedar Lawn Cemetery, Scooba, Kemper County, Mississippi. Dick Stewart PS: =-==-==-=-for the TN and AL folks, Czarina Stewart was born in either LCT, or Marion Co, AL. for the Mississippi folks, Czarina and hubby James L.G. Aiken lived next to parents Solomon B. and Sarah C. Stewart in Kemper Co or Leake Co, I don't remember which . For the Fayette AL folks, Solomon had land in Marion / Fayette, and I would bet you a dollar he may have been one of the reasons Glen Allen was originally known as Stewart's Gap. He had land there as well. =--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=trail of email=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -----Original Message----- From: Chuck Gerdau <cgerdau@uronramp.net> To: Dick Stewart <rmstewart@excelonline.com> Date: Friday, September 24, 1999 10:08 PM Subject: Re: [ALTUSCAL-L] More Cemeteries Online - Hi Nope I dont have that one. Never heard of it or have it on in 'orphan' lists. Chuck On 24 Sep 99, at 17:08, Dick Stewart wrote: > Chuck, > > do u have the "Aiken Private Cemetery" ? > > Dick Stewart > > -----Original Message----- > From: Chuck Gerdau <cgerdau@uronramp.net> > To: ALTUSCAL-L@rootsweb.com <ALTUSCAL-L@rootsweb.com> > Date: Thursday, September 23, 1999 9:08 PM > Subject: [ALTUSCAL-L] More Cemeteries Online > > > Thanks to all the volunteers who are making this project possible. Many > more transcriptions are on the way. Chuck > > Utley > http://www.mindspring.com/~awillcut/graves/utley.htm > > Tabernacle > http://www.rootsweb.com/~altuscal/cemetery/tabernacle.html > > Garner > http://www.rootsweb.com/~altuscal/cemetery/garner.html > > Fairview > http://www.rootsweb.com/~altuscal/cemetery/fairview.html > > Alberta > http://www.rootsweb.com/~altuscal/cemetery/alberta.html > > > > ==== ALTUSCAL Mailing List ==== > Tuscaloosa, Alabama AlGenWeb Page > http://www.rootsweb.com/~altuscal > send comments to cgerdau@uronramp.net > > ============================== > Support free genealogy on the Internet! Join RootsWeb.com today! > > >