Visiting Cemeteries

Antioch Cemetery Killen(Dec 9, 2003) June 9, 1997 

Anderson Cemetery Anderson (June 30, 2015) 

Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA (Nov 8, 2002) 

Ashberry Shiloh Cemetery, Pigeon Forge, TN (Nov 17, 2009

Atlas Cemetery Killen(Aug 27, 2003)

Athens Old town Cemetery Athens(April 17, 2016)

Athens Cemetery Athens(April 17, 2016)

Barbe Cemetery, Lula, MS (Jan 17, 201) 

Barton Cemetery Barton, AL(July 30, 2009) 

Barnett Cemetery Lexington, AL(Mar 13, 2009)

Canerday Cemetery, Florence, AL (Jan 23, 2003)

Cedar Grove (Nov 29, 2016) AUG 8, 1998

Center Hill Cemetery (Feb 12, 2009)

Chattanooga National Cemetery (Mar 22,2015)

Clemmons Cemetery (Aug 28, 2003)

Coffee Cemetery Florence(Sept 8, 2010) (April 10,2015)

Colbert Memorial Cemetery Tuscumbia(Oct 18,1997)

Coon Dog Cemetery Cherokee(July 30, 2009)

Corinth National Cemetery Corinth, MS(Sept 1, 2016) 

Cox Tidwell Killen(Feb 25, 2004 89photo)

Crowell Family Cemetery, Fort Mitchell, AL (July 12, 2011)  

Demorest Cemetery Michigan(Aug 7,1998)

East Dayton Cemetery Dayton, MI(Aug 8, 1998)

Florence Cemetery (May 16, 2013)(May 14,2013)(May 3,2010)(2009 June 19) (Mar 11, 2009)(Oct 20, 2009) (June 19, 2009) (July 18, 2009) (May 3, 2014)

Fort Mitchel, AL (July 12, 2011

Forks Cypress Jackson Cemetery Florence, AL(June 7, 2009)

Glencoe Cemetery, Tuscumbia, AL (June 24, 2016)

Glendale Cemetery, Leighton, April 3, 2008, Oct 18, 1997

Greenhill Cemetery Greenhill, A. L., Oct 4, 2003)

Greenview Florence, AL 

Grounds Cemetery at Hermitage, TN (Sep 25, 2010)

Hale Cemetery, Killen, AL (Dec 12, 2003)

Harden Cemetery, Killen, AL (Dec 6, 2006)

Harrison Cemetery, Killen, AL (July 31, 2010)

Harrison Little Berry Cemetery, Killen, AL 

Henry Stutts Cemetery Killen(Feb 20, 2009)

Hickory Flats Cemetery Lexington(Feb 2, 2004)

Hill Cemetery Killen(Jan 25, 2004)

Hugh McVay Moore Cemetery Florence(Sept 8, 2010)

Hunts Hill Cemetery, MS 17, 2012 

Jackson Tennessee Cemetery Wayne Co TN(Mar 12, 2003)

Jacksonburg Cemetery Florence(Oct 5, 2005)

JOE Wheeler Cemetery Pond Springs, AL(April 17, 2013)

Killen Baptist Church Cemetery, Killen, April 11, 1999 

Killen Cemetery Killen(Jan 30, 2009)

LaGrange Cemetery LaGrange, AL (Nov 21, 2009)

Lone Cedar Cemetery Florence(Jan 12, 2009)

Loretta Cemetery Loretta, TN(Aug 21, 2003 7photo)

Maple Hill Cemetery Huntsville, AL (Oct 17, 2010) (May 4, 2010)(Oct 18, 2009) (2009 Aug 25) (Oct 13, 2013)

Maple Hill Cemetery, Helena, AR (Jan 17,2012) 

Mimosa Cemetery, Lawrenceburg, TN (Oct 22,2016)

Mt Hermo,n Savannah, TN (June 22, 1997)

Mt Pleasant Tn 

Mt Zion Cemetery Florence, AL(Aug 13, 2003,) (Sept 6, 1997)

North Carolina Cemetery Killen Sept 21, 2003, May 31, 1997, July 11, 1998

Oak Grove Paducah, KY (Sept 14, 2011)

Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery, AL (Oct 11, 2013) 

Oakwood Annex Montgomery, AL (Oct 11, 2013)

Oakwood Sheffield Cemetery, AL (Sept 6, 2010)(July 27, 2009)(Mar 12,2003)

Oakwood Tuscumbia Cemetery(May 14, 2013)(Oct 21, 2009)(July 27, 2009),(April 25, 2015)(Oct 18, 1997)

Peck Cemetery Killen(Dec 12, 2003)

Pettus Cemetery, Lexington, AL 

Piney Grove Cemetery, Hardin County, TN, June 22, 1997

Rogers Chapel Zip City, AL 

Rogers Williams Cemetery, Providence, RI (July 20, 2014) 

Sadler Cemetery, Russellville, AL (Oct 1, 2013)

Saint Margaret's Cemetery, Montgomery, AL (Oct 11, 2013)

Shaw Cemetery Leighton, AL(Oct 18, 1997)

Shiloh National Cemetery, Shiloh, TN (Sept 1, 2009)

Tabernacle Cemetery Greenhill, Al(Aug 24, 2003) (Aug 2003)

Union Springs, Ga Cemetery (April 22, 2007)

Wade Cemetery (Mar 21, 2003) (Sept 24, 2009), (June 22, 1997)

Wesley Cemetery Central, Al(Feb 26, 2004) (June 9, 1997)

Winston Cemetery Tuscumbia, AL(July 27, 2009) 

Wilson Cemetery, St Florian, AL (Oct 21, 2009)

2010 & 2015 Coffee Cemetery then and now

September 8, 2010 

I saw a tree full of these.

Road to the Cemetery 

Coffee Cemetery could not be seen from the road. There was a historical marker providing information about the Cemetery.
We pulled into someone's driveway and parked in the area where one could park to enter the road leading to the Cemetery. There was a gate that I had to go through. Then down this long dirt road to the Cemetery.
The Cemetery was well kept, but there was no way to get inside the wall, so I leaned over it to take pictures of the graves. 
Many of Coffee's family members are buried in this Cemetery.
Just a few feet away are several unmarked slave graves. 

Information about the Coffee family:
General John R. Coffee son of Captain Joshua and Elizabeth (Graves) Coffee married Mary Donelson, on October 3 1809 in Davidson Co., TN. There were ten known children born of this union: Mary (Hutchings), John Donelson, Elizabeth, Andrew Jackson, Rachel Jackson (Dyas), Alexander Donelson, Catherine Harriet, Emily, William Donelson, and Joshua Coffee.

General John R. Coffee fought in the War of 1812 under the command of Andrew Jackson. He raised the 2nd Regiment of Volunteer Mounted Riflemen, which was made up of primarily Tennessee militiamen and a few Alabamians. On September 4, 1814, he was involved in the Andrew Jackson-Benton Brothers duel. He married Mary Donelson, daughter of John and Mary (Purnell) Donelson, and a relative of Andrew Jackson's wife, Rachel Donelson Robards Jackson. His father, Captain Joshua Coff, is believed to have served in the Revolutionary War.

He was a merchant, a partner in land speculation with Andrew Jackson, and worked as a surveyor in Florence, Lauderdale Co., AL. Surveying the boundary line between Alabama and Mississippi. www.findagrave.com

Coffee Cemetery 

Coffee Cemetery 

I went back to the Cemetery Site on April 10, 2015.

I no longer had to walk through the woods to the Cemetery. 

There was a sidewall Cemetery. The Cemetery could be seen from the road, which was once hidden in the woods. 

I could not get to the Cemetery due to construction. 

Walmart bought the land, and before they would let Walmart build a store, the area had to be surveyed for slave graves, and many grave sites were found. That area was set aside, and Wal-Mart built its store, but not on any grave sites.

Coffee Cemetery 2015

Every orange flag represents a slave grave.