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Union Cemetery

The following is a listing of the graves in the Union Cemetary of Bullock thanks to Lisa Wilson who transcribed the following information.

Union Cemetery across from Union Church on High Ridge Road, Bullock County, Alabama, was not a cemetery for the church but was a community cemetery begun by families in this area over 100 years ago.

Listed below are members and relatives of the Collins family that are buried here. There are graves for members of many old time Bullock County families buried here. The cemetery is very large and crowded. Tombstones record such familiar names as Tompkins, Barbaree, Stinson, McVey, McInnes, Rayforn, McKeon, Burks, Crowder, Sims, Farnell, Williford, Faulkner, Jones, Turner, Farwell and man others. There is a Black cemetery "just over the fence from the White cemtery.

The same volunteer committee which maintains Union Church, functions in the care of Union Cemetery, but attention by the individual families is also given to family burial plots.

Information in ( ) supplied by the compiler, not on tombstones.

1. JAMES BENJAMIN COLLINS
Son of Elvira and Chas. B. Collins
Born July 14, 1843
Died in Tazwell, Tenn. Sept. 20, 1862
Aged 19 yrs, 2 mo, 5 days

2. No Tombstone on Grave
JOHN COLLINS
(John was about 13 or 14 years old at the time of his death. He is said to have died in 1863.)

3. ELVIRA CULPEPPER COLLINS
"Mother"
Wife of Charles B. Collins
Died February 18th 1876
Aged 58 yrs, 2 mo, 18 days
(Mother of Harriet "Hattie" Ivey (Collins) Edwards)

4. CHAS. B. COLLINS
"Father"
Died December 8, 1876 Age 63 yrs, 10 mo, 18 days
(Father of Harriet "Hattie" Ivey (Collins) Edwards)

5. DANIEL COLLINS
"My Husband"
Died June 24th 1888
40 yrs, 4 mo, 23 days
"Since thou canst no longer stay
To cheer me with thy love
I hope to meet with you again
In your bright world above"
(Son of Chas. B. & Elvira (Cullpepper) Collins, brother of Harriet "Hattie" Ivey (Collins) Edwards. He was the first Collins child to be born in Pike (now Bullock) County, AL.)

6. JAMES WILSON COLLINS
Infant Son of Dan M. Collins & S.E. Collins
Died April 14, 1888

7. MINNIE LEE
Infant daughter of Dan M. & S.E. Collins
March 2, 1886
Age 1 mo, 22 days

8. AMANDA CULPEPPER
Wife of T. K. McCrary
January 31, 1823
August 18, 1896
"Asleep in Jesus blessed sleep
From which one never wakes to weep"
(Hattie Collins Edwards "Aunt Mandy")

9. REV. T. K. McCREARY (Thomas Kennon McCreary)
Son of T. K. and A. E. McCreary
Born April 22, 1853
Died September 29, 1886
Age 34
(Hattie Collins Edwards' first cousin. I'm not sure why his name is spelt different on his marker than it is spelt on the rest of his families' markers.)

10. E. V. (Elvira V. / "Sissy")
Daughter of T. K. and A. E. McCrary
Born March 30, 1856
Died December 27, 1873
Age 17 yrs, 8 mo and 17 days
"We will meet again"
(This Elvira V. was named after Hattie Collins Edwards mother, Elvira Culpepper Collins)

11. WILLIAM H.
Son of T. K. and A. E. McCrary
Jan 6, 1846
March 1897
"At rest dear brother"

12. MARY M. McCRARY
Daughter of T. K. and A. E. McCrary
Wife of J. T. Vance
Dec 5, 1850
Aug 2, 1928
"Thy memory shall ever be a Guiding star to Heaven"