Shady Grove Cemetery #1, Lee, Alabama

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October 2002


Shady Grove Cemetery #1, near the Prince Crossroads, County Roads 401 and 170
Lee County, Alabama

The actual cemetery is on County Road 133. There is no church there. The 
original church was given to freed slaves and taken down to be put up in a new 
location.  The church is still active and located on County Road 170. It was the 
help of the friendly parishioners there who guided me in the right direction one 
Sunday morning to find the old Shady Grove cemetery. 

William Trotter, who owned the land, donated to the actual cemetery. According 
to a book written by Reverend Cherry, called History of Opelika and Her 
Agricultural Tributary Territory, Mr. Trotter gave the land to the locals 
(whites) for a church and cemetery. Later as the population changed, the church 
was moved and became black. 

When I visited the cemetery in 1999, the stones were illegible. It just a 
collection of cement standing stones. Research uncovered an article in TAPROOTS, 
Volume 18, No. 4, April 1981, page 195.  In this volume of TAPROOTS, only three 
names were readable.  Mrs. C. K. Dunn, of Salem, Alabama, recorded the names in 
1981.  The names are:

In memory of Mrs. Francis Fuller
Mother of Reuben Trotter
Died Aug. 8, 1882
"She faulted by the wayside and the angels took her home."

In memory of Fannie
Wife of Reuben Trotter
Born Feb. 13, 1853
Died June 4, 1896
"Sleep on Mother and take thy rest, God called thee home.
He thought best."

In memory of Reuben Trotter
Born Sept. 13, 1850
Died May 13, 1897