Knight Cemetery, Jackson, Alabama http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/jackson/cemetery/knight.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: James T. Sentell ================================================================================ August 2002 Knight Cemetery Devers Cove, Big Coon Valley, Jackson County. Alabama The following are directions from a survey done in 1999 by Jane Nichols: This cemetery is located at Big Coon on a private hunting club. It is very difficult to get too. The only way to get to this cemetery is on a four-wheeler and you have to cross several creek beds with water. It is located off co. Rd. 53, then very bad dirt roads and gates that are kept locked. You can only go so far, then use a four wheeler. It is really a beautiful place. The graveyard is in very bad shape and grown up, with broken headstones and many rocks with no writing. The following directions are from this updated and expanded survey done by James T. Sentell and Ralph W. Thornhill, Aug. 3, 2002 and Aug. 7, 2002: Located 2 miles northwest of the end of pavement of Jackson County Road 53, approximately 1 mile northwest of "The Narrows" near the center of Section 31. Township 1 South Range 6 East on the property of Ray Keller. Cemetery is approx. ¼ mile west of the main unpaved road which leads to Tate's cove, on the top and south edge of a ridge in the "middle" of Devers Cove. The field road in Devers Cove is at the foot of this small ridge and passes within approximately 50 yards of the cemetery. Geodetic position of the cemetery is Long.. 86 degrees 02.01 minutes West, Lat. 34 degrees 54.31 minutes North at an elevation of 763 feet MSL. (also Ala. Grid East coordinates of East- 439,901 and North 1,603,954) Cemetery contains 22 graves (7 marked tombstones and 15 unmarked tombstones) Information in parenthesis added by James T. Sentell. Accuracy of this information is not guarenteed and the responsibility of the author. One double Factory Headstone: 1) R. Devers Feb 15, 1824 Sept 29 1910 2) Nancy Devers Jan 20, 1832 Jan 15, 1892 (This is Rodeman Devers and his second wife Nancy Knight Devers (daughter of James and Rutha Knight) All other Headsones are limestone field rocks Near the above is : 3) M. G. Knight Oct 25 39 Feb 1, 1889 (This is Marion Green Knight, born Oct 25, 1839 son of James and Rutha Knight) 4) Rutha Knight was born Sept th 14, 1814 D C Dec th 18, 1890 (Rutha is Rutha Crouch Knigh, wife of Capt. James Knight) 5) Capt. James Knight, was born July 8, 1806. D C this life Dec 21. 1888. 6) Thomas Knight Dec th 1, 1885 Ac 78 (Thomas is the twin brother of Capt. James Knight ) he was born July 8, 1806 7) Levina Knight Born Oct 11, 1812 Died May 24, 1887 (Levina is Levina Carlton Knight- wife of Thomas and her parents were Lewis Carlton (b1783) and Ann "Nancy" Crouch - Lewis is the son of Thomas Carlton and Mary Isbell) The lines above with the numbers are an exact copy of the contents of the tombsones. Layout of cemetery as follows: (note- north is up on this sketch) UM- unmarked stones Row 1 Row2 Row3 Row 4 R Devers(1) UM N Devers(2) UM UM UM UM MGK(3) UM UM UM RK(4) UM UM CJK(5) UM UM TK(6) UM LK(7) UM UM The unmarked stones are all field limestone rocks with both headstones to the west and foot stones to the east. James and Thomas (Jr) are the sons of Thomas Knight Sr. b 1756 in Orange Co, Va .