Tuscaloosa County AlArchives Cemeteries.....The OId Cemetery - Complete Survey
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.

http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Clark Solomon auburnfan37@charter.net and Anna Solomon  April 7, 2004, 6:49 pm

Abstracted By: Clark Solomon and Anna Solomon

Location:  Located beside the Black Warrior River, but on 
a much higher elevation than the river.  It is located on 
River Road.  It is not hard to find, and it is marked by a 
big black sign that clearly says “The Old Cemetery” 
and “Bryce Hospital” on it, along with a date.  It is on 
right side of the road if you are heading west toward the 
Tuscaloosa Public Library or Tuscaloosa Chevrolet.  It is 
located where Highway 82 and River Road cross, on the west 
side of 82.   

Information:  This cemetery is no longer in use but is 
well kept.  It was a cemetery for Bryce Hospital and many 
patients are buried there.  In the far right hand corner 
of the cemetery, towards the front, are many graves that 
simply have numbers on them.  I assume that these were 
patient numbers from the hospital, and did not record 
them.  About half of the tombstones were broken, but the 
cemetery is not overgrown.  This might not be a complete 
listing and I cannot say that it is totally accurate, 
because there were graves all over the place, not in a 
central location.

Also, I can probably get you a picture of a grave, if you 
would like. Just email me and I will see what I can do.   

Surveyed Fall 2003 by Clark and Anna Solomon. Listed in 
alphabetical order because of the sporadic order of the 
graves. 



Last Name     First Name    Middle Name   Birth              Death              Comment
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Avery         Henry         W.                                                  Co. F, 11th Ala. Inf. (CSA gravestone marker)
Drake         Annie         Lee           August 2, 1903     August 19, 1918    “With Jesus Now, Gone but not forgotten”
Newbold       Henry         T.            April 4, 1870      October 16, 1903   
Mitchell      Howard                                         March 30, 1945     
Osborne       Magnolia      Dubose        December 26, 1887  December 24, 1916  
Porch         M. M.                       June 10, 1825      September 8, 1875  
Williams      J. W.                       June 17, 1854      February 27, 1880  “In Memory of My Husband”



Additional Comments:
One broken tombstone has the lone date “Dec. 23, 1917” on it.  As mentioned 
before, there are many broken tombstones in the cemetery; probably close to 
half of them are. 

This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/alfiles/

File size: 2.9 Kb