Holstun Cemetery, Chambers, Alabama

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Don L. Clark <DONLC_99@yahoo.com> March  2002


Holstun Cemetery
Chambers County, Alabama

Notes in ( ) were added by contributor.

Starting at the NE corner of the courthouse square in LaFayette, travel east on 
Alabama Avenue.  This street will eventually become County Road #267, and the 
pavement will end.  Continue traveling on unpaved road for a total distance of 
5.4 miles from the starting point.  The cemetery will be on the right-hand side of 
the road, surrounded by and in the woods.  It is located in Section 2, Township 22 N, 
Range 27 E, on lands that were once the plantation of Stanmore Holstun.

An ornate iron fence once surrounded the graveyard but was stolen by vandals in the 
mid 1970s.  Also, most of the marble slabs on the graves were totally destroyed.  
A wooden fence was built in place of the iron one, but is now almost rotted away.

I first visited this cemetery in 1975, and since then have been several other times.  
It was during a visit in the late 1970s that I copied these epitaphs.  There are a 
total of 14 distinguishable graves.  


 1.  A broken piece of marble that reads "In Memory of William M. Walton"

 2.  Corinne Walton, wife of William M. Walton, December 10, 1859 - December 12, 1889

 3.  Lucinda Trammell, daughter of Stanmore and Statira Holstun, September 17, 1853 - December 10, 1889

 4.  Stanmore Holstun, December 12, 1809 - July 5, 1885  
     (Note:  1860 Chambers County, AL Census, H186 Stanmore Holstun, 50M, Farmer, 
	 56 slaves, R$3,000, P$62,000, born SC; wife Statira Holstun, 30F, born SC; also listed were names of children.)

 5.  Statira Holstun, November 8, 1829 - October 8, 1907  

 6.  In Memory of Dolly Holstun, wife of William Holstun, born 1789, died April 22, 1861  
     (Note:  1850 Chambers County, AL Census, HH377 Dolly Holstun, 60F, Farmer, 17 slaves, R$2,600, born SC.)

 7.  Martha E. Finney, April 3, 1840 - July 28, 1860  "Father I wait before Thy throne, call me a 
     child of thine, Send down the spirit of thy son, to form my soul divine."

 8.  Albert Stanmore Holstun, son of B. F. and G. E. Holstun, December 19, 1872 - November 6, 1878  
     "Suffer little children to come unto me, For of such is the kingdom of Heaven."

 9.  Ben F. Holstun, March 19, 1849 - September 27, 1920

10.  Gertrude E. Davidson, wife of Ben F. Holstun, ________, 1852 - September __, 1923

11. - 14.  Four graves marked only with concrete slabs, no inscriptions