Poe (Pole) Bridge Cemetery, Clay, Alabama ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ This file is copyrighted and contributed by: Ellen Grendel September 2001 Poe (Pole) Bridge Cemetery From Ashland, Alabama at the junction of Hwy 9 and Hwy 77, take Hwy 77 N. approximately 6.9 miles. Turn left onto a dirt logging road. Travel approximately one half mile and turn right. Go approximately 2 tenths of a mile. The cemetery is on the left. It is slightly overgrown but, easily accessible. Please note: anything in parenthesis is an annotation added by myself. All other info is taken directly from the tombstones. There are 109 graves marked only with stones with no names or dates. Most are only field rocks. There may be more that were not identifiable. Elizabeth Johnson 02/20/1819 - 01/26/1898 78 yrs, 11 mos, 6 days, w/o R.P. Johnson Toliver N. Johnson 02/06/1861 - 01/28/1893 31 yrs, 11 mos, 9 days, s/o R.P. & E. Johnson William P. Webber 07/06/1851 - 02/11/1937 Mary Susan 07/20/1846 - 11/20/1911 married 1/29/1874, w/o W.P. Webber Georgia Ann Worren Webber 12/16/1884 - 11/22/1899 William Joseph Webber 12/11/1874 - 07/10/1899 Ann Hazle 07/14/1864 - 01/08/1896 w/o D.H. Hazle Sarah Hagan 03/16/1831 - 03/06/1909 Infant of J.N. & N.M. Webber born and died 11/19/1901 Susie Mae 03/25/1912 - 10/24/1914 d/o J.N. & N.M. Webber Emily R. Gravette 1834 ----- (Emilie R. Mitchell, w/o Sanford Raymond Gravette - My greatgreatgrandparents. There is an unmarked grave next to her. I believe it is Sanford) C.S. Gravett 04/25/1860 - 12/27/1914 (This is Calvin Sanford, s/o Emily and Sanford Gravette. Note the variation in spelling) Richard P. Welch 09/28/1837 - 01/04/1912 74yrs, 3 mos, 6 days (In addition to the tombstone there is an iron CSA marker) T. J. Welch 10/08/1876 - 01/19/1904 Janie Massey 09/20/1870 - 07/07/1898 Malcom Davidson 11/07/1909 - 11/15/1912 M.L. Gray 01/13/1855 - 10/19/1888 Mary (This is scratched into a rock used as a footstone. It is believed to be Mary Ritchie Stringfellow, another of my greatgreatgrandmothers.) Sergeant Robert Stringfellow 09/4/1823 - 11/09/1901 Co. H 25 Ala INF CSA Loney Stringfellow 12/06/1904 - 02/11/1907 (Granddaughter to Robert and Mary, daughter of their son William Henry Thorton Stringfellow and Martha Emma Ray Stringfellow) Albert F. 06/02/1876 - 10/07/1904 s/o L.F. & C.A. Morgan Emer Elisabeth Morgan 09/14/1879 - 07/17/1898 d/o L.F. & C.A. Morgan James Andrew Preston 01/15/1888 - 06/13/1890 s/o L.F. & C.A. Morgan Sarah Lakey Parsons 12/1826 - 08/26/1904 w/o M. Parsons M. Parsons 02/04/1826 - 11/28/1904 Mary F. 02/27/1865 - 05/13/1914 w/o Green L. Griffin ODA Francis Griffin 06/23/1891 - 08/10/1894 Martha E. Upchurch 10/29/1883 - 01/15/1884 MDR Lakey 02/11/1862 - 07/31/1895 (husband of Ella Gravette (Eldorado). He is believed to have gone by "Tom") J.R. Lakey 06/20/1888 - 11/29/1912 (May be John Raymond Lakey,s/o Eldorado and Tom Lakey) Lula Thomas 1885 - 1904 John M. Bryant 12/04/1890 - 12/30/1911 Susie C. Bryant 1870 - 1958 James H. Bryant 1855 - 1911 Zada F. Bryant 04/19/1895 - 04/11/1903 Marshal 10/10/1890 - 09/01/1909 s/o H.A. & L.E. Rainwaters, stepson of F.B. Monroe H.A. Rainwaters 05/20/1870 - 06/26/1891 J.A. Rainwaters 05/05/1874 - 04/01/1898 John D. Rainwaters 11/14/1840 - 08/19/1920 Father Rebecca Rainwaters 12/06/1846 - 02/23/1937 Mother William A. Bryant 05/19/1870 - 04/17/1937 Mary E. Thomas Bryant 04/06/1871 - 03/27/1912 Vicie Viola Bryant born and died 03/1912 ~~~~~~~note by Sybil Bolton Jan 2002~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Daniel Hagan was born about 1791 (his application for land grant stated his age "a well as recollected"; he died in March of 1875. He was married to Sarah Bolton at the time of his death. He was in Capt. Isham Hendon's company, Georgia Regiment of Militian, and was honorably discharged in the spring of 1815. He made application or and recieved an 80 acred land warrant under Actoof 28 Sept 1850; later applied for and received land grant under Act of March 1855. It is not known where he is buried; his wife and daughter are buried at Pole Bridge Cemetery; if he is buried there, his grave is unmarked. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~