have you tried Eagle Creek Cemetery - which is in Tallapoosa County, but a lot of Tuskegee people are buried there, also if you have a connection to FREEMAN let me know delilah evans ----- Original Message ----- From: "Polly" <paburnell@comcast.net> To: <ALMACON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 6:08 PM Subject: [ALMacon] Tuskegee area cemeteries? > I'm hoping someone familiar with Tuskegee and surrounding areas can help me. > I am trying to locate the burial places of my white, affluent (at least > before the Civil War) gggf and ggf, Tuskegee residents, who I know are > buried in the area. I have looked at a microfiche of Robert Y. Perry's > transcriptions of various local cemeteries including Tuskegee City cemetery, > but they have not appeared. My ggggm(died 1873) and another relative > (d.1862) are buried in the Tuskegee City Cmtry, but the people I am > searching for are not. I have records that indicate that they were buried > in the Tuskegee area, if not in Tuskegee itself. While looking through Mr. > Perry's transcription, I noticed that other people I am familiar with from > my research do not appear, either. The following info about him may be > relevent in determining where he was buried: > his name was Albert Sidney Harper; he was a Mason, a grocery store owner > with a Mr. MacDonald after the Civil War, a circuit clerk of the court, > married to a Fitzpatrick (she died elsewhere), died in 1890, possibly a > Methodist, and once owned a plantation in Cotton Valley (courtesy of his > wife). These facts may offer clues as to where he could be buried. His > son, my ggf, died in 1904 in Montgomery but was sent off to be be buried in > Tuskegee according to his obituary. If not in Tuskegee City Cemetery, then > where would people like this have been buried? Any help or insights would > be appreciated. > > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > >