Tallapoosa County AlArchives Cemeteries.....B.F. and Sophia Neighbors Cemetery - Complete Survey
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Sandra S. Wilson earlwilson1@charter.net March 31, 2004, 11:39 am

Abstracted By: Sandra S. Wilson

Located at the corner of Scott Road and Sanders Road 
between the Scott-Wilson home and a two story house. 
Approximately 2 miles east of Alexander City in Tallapoosa 
County, Alabama, on the right side of the road going in 
the direction of the 280 Highway.


Last Name     First Name                Middle Name          Birth           Death              Comment
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Neighbors     B.F. [Benjamin Franklin]                       May 7, 1839     Mar 29, 1888  [Son of William and Nancy Cato Neighbors]
Neighbors     Sophia F.[Frances]        [Lassiter]           May 4, 1840     Sep 7, 1883   [Daughter of Elisha William and Sarah E. Powell Lassiter]



Additional Comments:
According to the recollections of Sarah Neighbors Graves in her 
compilation, "As I Remember," since her mother Sophia's "disease had not been 
clearly diagnosed, the student doctors from the school at Dadeville [Alabama] 
might like to hold an autopsy to find the cause of her death. At that time 
graves were sometimes robbed for that purpose. Papa was advised to bury Mamma 
in our yard and move her body in a few months to a church cemetery. It was 
never moved. When Papa died he was buried beside her...."

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