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| Athens Cemetery |
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| Caroline Page |
This strong woman settled in Rowland, now Tanner, with her family after the American Civil War. She relied on her Methodist faith to keep the family together.
The Peck families came from the north to settle in Athens.
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| Rebekah Thompson Davis |
Mary was one of the strongest supporters of the Confederacy among the United Daughters. Miss Mary explains the Confederate Circle and the Confederate monument.
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| Confederate Circle and Tombstones The Confederate Circle in Athens City Cemetery contains graves of over 50 soldiers killed in or around Athens during the WBTS, 8 unknown. Around 1898, ladies of the local UDC were working in the cemetery when bones, believed to be soldiers, were found. The ladies felt these soldiers deserved a proper burial. In 1901, the local UDC chapter placed markers with the soldiers' initials on each of their graves. In 1994, the Chapter researched and ordered new markers with full names and Military Service. The markers were replaced with the joint effort of the SCV Camp 768 and UDC Chapter 198 |
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| Kristi Valls |
She was twice President of what is now Athens State University, once as a single young woman and later as a mature widow with four stepchildren.
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| Frank Travis |
He was born a slave but was able to buy his freedom. He was a cobbler who made and repaired shoes and boots for both Confederate and Union troops, as well as civilians.
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| Kathy Horton Garrett |
Mother of Captain Thomas Hubbard Hobbs and a very stalwart supporter of the Athens Female Academy and the Athens First Methodist Church
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| Dr. David Griggs |
He joined the Confederate Army at the age of 13 and served until his regiment surrendered in Selma. After the war, he worked in the newspaper business in Nashville, but upon his return to Athens, he entered the grocery business alongside his father.
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| Glenn Hall |
He initially brought his family to Limestone County on a flatboat down the Elk River before it was legal for a white man to purchase land. The Federal soldiers arrested him and burned his house and crops. He later returned and was able to legally purchase land and settle here.
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| Athens Dulcimers |
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| Dana Hickman |
Her husband was a Confederate Soldier and later Probate Judge of Limestone County, but her son, Judge JE Horton Jr., became world-famous for his brave ruling in the "Scottsboro Boys" trial.
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| Carol Cordero |
A local girl who married one of the officers of the Union Occupation forces.
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| Al Elmore |
He served as a register in the chancery of Limestone County from 1874 to 1876. Served in the Alabama Senate for two terms. In 1884, he was elected State Attorney General. He became Chief Justice in 1898 and served until he died in 1906.
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| Peggy Allen Towns |
She became a land-owning free black lady. The soldiers were instructed to leave her and her belongings alone.
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| Joe Curtis |
He was a brick mason, a freemason, and an archaic term referring to a person who organized and led a company of soldiers and fought in the Mexican-American War.
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| Beth Ham |
She stood her ground and refused to give up all her meat stored in the smokehouse.
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| Billy Ward |
Grandson of Robert Beaty, who served in General Roddy's "Bull Pups" when he was 16. He started the development of the town of Bismarck.
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| Jerry Barksdale |
He was a Secessionist until after the occupation and "Sack of Athens" by Union Soldiers under Colonel Turchin.
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| Robert Reeves |
He was a Cumberland Presbyterian Circuit Rider and one of the founders of the Athens First Presbyterian Church.
