Moshat Cemetery, Cherokee, Alabama ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: David Lee Jenkins December 2002 Moshat Cemetery Cherokee County Alabama Directions: From Centre Alabama, take U.S. Hwy 411 North toward Cave Springs Georgia. Turn Left on County Road 83 (approximately 3.8 miles from the intersection of U.S. Hwy 411 and U.S. Hwy 9. Moshat Cemetery is approximately 1/8 mile on the left across from Moshat Baptist Church. History: Moshat Cemetery is now known as Laney Cemetery. George J. Edgens, Serg Co D 1st South Carolina Infantry on the Confederate States of America Army is buried here. He is thought to have fired the first shot at Fort Sumter S.C. in the Civil War. There are several more tombstones (5-6). However, I could not make out the writing on these stones. Information in parenthesis added by submitter. KEY: Name, Birth date, Death date, Other information Row. 1 Laney , Robert U. 26 November 1877 14 September 1957 Father; Same stone with Rosa Lee Brooks Laney, Rosa Lee Brooks 12 December 1894 16 February 1972 Laney, George Harold 2 February 1919 8 February 2002 S1 US Navy WWII; same stone with Elizabeth Laney Laney, Mary Elizabeth 6 February 1920 Laney, Pearl 25 April 1887 22 September 1934 Wife of Joe Frix Row 2 Laney, Ronnie 18 September 1954 19 September 1954 Son of George H. and Mary E. Laney Laney, Cecil 16 June 1912 24 June 1913 Laney, Dorris 15 October 1925 31 December 1926 Laney, Abe P. 30 April 1881 11 March 1960 Same stone with Abe P. Laney Laney, Tommie E. 14 September 1885 9 August 1973 Doeg, Hezzie Louis. 9 January 1904 9 November 1973 Row 3 Laney, Jerry 1937 1937 Same stone with Glen Laney Laney, Glen 1936 1937 Infants of Mr. and Mrs. Toy Laney Laney, John Andrew 17 June 1876 11 February 1945 Laney, G.C. 27 July 1850 1 November 1918 same stone with L.M. Laney Laney, L.M. 31 October 1848 19 November 1917 wife of G.C. Laney Laney, Rhoda A. 11 September 1874 22 December 1901 wife of James Smith Laney, William J. 6 May 1885 10 April 1934 Row 4 Barron, William B. 5 March 1861 27 December 1949 Barron, Mary F. Barron 29 November 1877 20 December 1939 Barron, Catherine 5 November 1905 14 July 1911 Daughter of W.B. and Belle Barron Giles, Minnie 1 July 1900 22 March 1919 Daughter of J.W. and Emily Giles Row 5. Edgens, George J. 1835 24 January 1890 Serg Co D 1 SC INF CSA Fired the first shot at Ft. Sumpter Giles, Hattie Mae 30 March 1900 20 February 1933 Giles, C.B. 23 October 1923 23 February 1927 son of Willie and Hattie Giles Row 6 Williams, Joe Lee 12 February 1886 3 March 1922 Barron, Calvin H. Co. B 3 GA CAV CSA Barron, Katherine 1858 1874 Daughter of Calvin H Barron Barron, Pricilla 1832 Wife of Calvin H. Barron (maiden name Pricilla Williamson) Barron, Jonah 4 October 1848 8 November 1938 Row 7 Blackmon, Birley T. 20 August 1895 2 December 1974 same stone with Sallie H. Blackmon Blackmon, Sallie H. 16 April 1915 Barron, Ralph 22 February 1909 20 September 1910 son of W.B. and Minnie Barron Cleveland, Willie 6 May 1885 14 June 1887 son of W.J. and S.J. Alford