There were also several slave cemeteries found on Redstone Arsenal. Redstone has built fences around them and tried to perserve them.

When I copied the white cemeteries of Madison County for publications, I also copied the black cemeteries. At that time Dr. Dorothy Haith was a professor at A& M and wanted my work with the intent of giving her students the task of updating them and publishing them to further interest them in their heritage. FOOLISHLY I gave them to her without making a copy. She left suddenly and moved to North Carolina. It is my understanding that she has published them and has an ISBN number (I do not have it). You might be able to locate her as she is a university professor. It is also my understanding that she does not answer inquiries regarding these records - I guess because she published them as her own work. I don't give a hoot about the credit - I just think they should somehow be returned to Madison County - or at least a copy. Slaves were usually buried next to the white owner's cemetery in a plot set aside especially for them. To my knowledge, only a few tombstones erected to slaves have survived. I have visited many, many black cemeteries in this county in which there were no tombstones. They probably erected wooden crosses which rotted away. Best of luck. Dorothy Scott Johnson "Dot" ----- Original Message ----- From: <Ejp071182@aol.com> To: <ALMADISO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 7:16 AM Subject: African American Cemeteries > There were also several slave cemeteries found on > Redstone Arsenal. Redstone has built fences around them > and tried to perserve them. >