Marshall County AlArchives Photo Place.....Old Arab Cemetery November 2008
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Heather Balentine mrsheatherbalentine@gmail.com November 29, 2008, 9:10 pm

Source:             Old Arab Cemetery
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Alabama Historical Cemetery Register Marker for what is called Old Arab
Cemetery.  It is on Shoal Creek Trail on the left, exactly 1 block left of Main
street in downtown Arab.

"1883 Methodist Church Cemetery

A congregation of the Methodist Episcopal Church North erected a log church,
possibly named Pleasant Hill Church, adjacent to this cemetery in 1883.  The
church served as Arab's first school.  The earliest marked grave is 1883,
though older unmarked graves are likely present.  In 1897 the congregation
moved to Union Hill.  The cemetery continued to be used into the early 1940s
by the Methodist Episcopal Church South founded in 1892, which later became
First United Methodist Church.  Buried here are the town founder Stephen
Tuttle Thompson and other early settlers of the area.  Civil War veterans
including Confederate Private James L. McWhorter and Union Captian James
Walter Elliott are also found here."


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