Coosa County AlArchives Photo place.....Sears Chapel and Cemetery 
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This picture was taken between 1885 – 1905 of John Kirkham McEwen at Sears 
Chapel about a couple of miles north of Rockford, Coosa Co., AL. The original 
building was about 50 yards behind the current structure, which was built in 
1895.  The vestibule and steeple bell and memorial windows were added about 10 
years later. John K. McEwen (b. 28 Apr 1856 in Coosa Co., AL and d. 5 Oct 1939 
in Coosa Co., AL) is buried in Sears Chapel Cemetery beside his wife Catherine 
Dandridge Walker (b. 24 Sep 1860 in Coosa Co., AL and d. 11 Dec 1942 in Coosa 
Co., AL). They were married 28 Nov 1877 in Rockford, Coosa Co., AL.

Additional Comments:
Several Methodists church were built in Coosa County "one built in the later 
fifties between Hanover and Rockford, called Sears’ Chapel for John Sears, the 
noted Millwright. At each of these churches there is a cemetery. A large shaft 
marks the resting place of Sears, the leading spirit." (1)
(1)  Rev. George E. Brewer, History of Coosa County, Alabama (Easley, South 
Carolina:  Southern Historical Press, Inc., 1987), p. 174.




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