Lucas Cemetery, Autauga, Alabama http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/autauga/cemetery/lucas.txt ================================================================================ USGENWEB NOTICE: All documents placed in the USGenWeb Archives remain the property of the contributors, who retain publication rights in accordance with US Copyright Laws and Regulations. In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, these documents may be used by anyone for their personal research. They may be used by non-commercial entities so long as all notices and submitter information is included. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit. Any other use, including copying files to other sites, requires permission from the contributors PRIOR to uploading to the other sites. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. This file was contributed and copyrighted by: David M. Edelen II ==================================================================== October 2002 LUCAS CEMETERY: The Lucas Family Cemetery is located on Boothe Road (County Road 10) in Autauga County. Go out Highway 82 north towards Tuscaloosa from Prattville about 12 miles and take a right on Boothe Road. There is a store w/gas right on your right on that corner. Go about 2 miles on Boothe Road and the cemetery is on your left almost immediately past a white house on your left. It is easy to miss because of trees, etc.. The Cemetery is on the left side of a narrow dirt driveway or lane, sort of up on a slight bank, sort of on the corner so to speak of the dirt lane and Boothe Road. It is almost hidden by trees and easy to miss. It is easier to see if coming from the other direction, which would be about 2 1/2 miles or so from Lower Kingston Road (County Road 57). To come from that direction, come out of Prattville on Lower Kingston Road, which turns into or is the same as County Road 57. It veers off of Highway 82 immediately before Highway 82 crosses Autauga Creek. There are only 8 marked graves in this cemetery - four childrens and four adults. All the graves are marked with just rotten sticks sticking up but two, one of these is a childs marked with what I thought was a real stone. I looked at it and it was a stone made of that man made artificial granite or counter top material. Just a slab of it stuck in the ground with nothing written on it. The other one was marked with a broken purple drink pitcher sitting at the head. Even though none were marked, the graves could still be discerned because each grave was a mound like in the olden days. You could see where they had dug to either side of it to make the mound, very "different". I was going to try to go up there and see if anyone knew who was buried there but there was a homemade sign on a tree that said in big letters; "Keep Out", so I kept out! Something else is funny about the Lucas Cemetery. Those graves were all at an angle. The fenced in enclosure is a square about 25 by 30 feet, paralell with the road. But all the graves in it, at least the upraised ones, were all at about a 45* angle to the fence. Perhaps they got a compass and laid them facing a certain way or something. There is a lot of room in that fence where I did not see any graves, unless they were level, unmarked and without any sort of marker or mound.