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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 War of the south of Independence. 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 served as one of the strongest supporters of the United Daughter of the Confederacy. 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 initials of the soldiers on each grave. 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 when she was 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 cobble that mad and or repaired shoes and boots for Confederate and Yankee troops and 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 the surrender of his regiment in Selma. He lived in Nashville after the war in the newspaper business but upon his return to Athens, he went into the grocery business with his father.
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| Glenn Hall |
He originally bought his family to Limestone County on a flatboat down the Elk River before it was legal for a white man to buy land. The Federal soldiers arrested him and burned his house and crops. He later returned was able to legally buy 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 int he "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 1874-1876. Served Alabama Senate for two terms. In 1884 he was elected State Attorney General. He became Chief justice in 1898 and served until his death in 1906.
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| Peggy Allen Towns |
She became a land-owning free black lady. The soldiers were admonished to leave her and hers alone.
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| Joe Curtis |
He was a brick mason, a freemason and an archaic 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 in refusing to give 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 Secessionists 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
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