Butler County, Alabama

Gravel Hill Baptist Church Cemetery

Butler County, Alabama

Contributed by Donna Eldridge

Located on Co. Rd. 41 1/2 mile south of Hwy 31 by Gravel Hill Baptist Church.

Note: Due to the date of this survey, it is more than likely incomplete.

John C. Aplin
b. 17 Oct. 1867   d. 16 Apr. 1945

Linnie Aplin
dau. of J.C. & M. E.
b. 29 June 1907   d. 28 July 1912

Mary E. Aplin
wife of John C.
b. 3 Mch 1872   d. 9 July 1968

Willie L. Aplin
b. 15 May 1895   d. 18 Dec. 1917
Woodman of World marker

J. N. Beckworth
b. 4 Aug. 1849   d. 20 Aug. 1898

Maggie E. Beckworth
wife of J. N.
b. 29 Jan. 1854   d. 22 Aug, 1904

Bertie W. Lowe Bennett
b. 8 Jan. 1880   d. 13 Feb. 1965

George S. Bennett
b. 26 Sept. 1890   d. 20 Sept. 1950
Ala. Pvt. 13 Inf. 31 Div.
World War l

Ruth Welch Bennett
b. 10 Feb. 1899   d. (blank)

A. Jeff Beverly
b. 9 May 1885   d. 26 Nov. 1966

Rena G. Beverly
b. 21 Mch. 1887   d. (blank)
(same stone as Jeff)

Cary James Bloodworth
b. 14 Mch. 1896   d. 14 Sept. 1959

Timothy Boggan
b. 9 July 1911   d. 14 May 1963
m. 22 Mch. 1929
Ala.  S I USN
World War ll

James Bradley
son of D. J. & A. E.
b. 30 Aug. 1877   d. 24 June 1899

Josephine Taylor Browder
wife of E. T.
b. 22 Mch. 1881   d. 2 Feb. 1934

George W. Campbell, Jr.
b. 13 May 1928   d. 27 July 1973

George Washington Campbell, Sr.
b. 29 Jan. 1903   d. 26 Jan. 1969

Henry Cyril Campbell, Sr.
b. 19 Sept. 1918   d. 31 May 1972
Capt. AAF, World War II

Nannie Dickens Campbell
b. 18 July 1895   d. 25 Nov. 1967
(same stone as Oscar Lee)

Oscar Lee Campbell
b. 20 Sept. 1891   d. 30 Sept. 1945

Ruth Mae Campbell
b. 17 Sept. 1924   d. (blank)
same stone as Henry Cyril Sr.

D. A. Craig
b. 11 July 1852   d. 13 July 1927

E. M. Craig
b. 30 Jan. 1869   d. 5 May 1921
(same stone as D. A.)

Freddie J. Craig
b. 14 Dec. 1902   d. 9 Feb. 1935

George H. Craig
b. 25 Feb. 1878   d. 30 Mch. 1938

Georgia E. Craig
b. 19 Dec. 1874   d. 10 Dec. 1957

Jack Craig
b. 15 May 1907   d. 24 Dec. 1930

Omega Craig
b. 21 Aug. 1906   d. 29 Jan. 1953

Allen Croley
b. 14 Feb. 1876   d. 29 Sept. 1954

Herman A. Croley
b. 25 Nov. 1903   d. 10 Feb. 1938

J. C. Croley
b. 4 Apr. 1930   d. 26 Mch. 1939

Sallie L. Croley
b. 12 Dec. 1881   d. 29 Feb. 1964

Timothy George Duke
d. 14 Dec. 1954
son of Homer E. & Eliz. C.

Eady
twin son of Nannie Lorene Sweatt & Wm. Wesley
d. 18 May 1908

Eady
son of Nannie Lorene Sweatt & Wm. Wesley
d. 18 Feb. 1912

Fails, Elsbery
b. 17 Nov. 1821   d. 19 Sept. 1901

N. T. Farmer
b. 12 Dec. 1850   d. 3 Nov. 1926
(Masonic emblem)

Annie Funderburk, Mrs.
b. 22 Aug. 1889   d. 6 Nov. 1948

Gaston
inf. son of W. G.
d. 8 Jan. 1934

George Walter Grant
1874 - 1937

Hattie Low Grant
1883 - (blank)

Claude A. Green
b. 12 Nov. 1901   d. 8 Feb. 1951

Luiser J. Green
b. 23 Sept. 1905   d. (blank)
same stone as Claude A.

Lotte Leote Henderson
dau. of J. W. & M. L.
b. 11 Dec. 1881   d. 3 Jan. 1900

Bettie M. Fails Herndon
wife of W. F.
b. 7 Mch. 1858   d. 16 May 1918

Clara Estelle Herndon
b. 17 Feb. 1883   d. 11 Apr. 1923

W. F. Herndon
b. 12 July 1855   d. 16 June 1930

Wm. Elsberry Herndon
d. 16 Feb. 1951, aged 67
hus. Marie Alice Whitehead
mar. 19 July 1909

J. T. Hilliard
b. 15 Feb. 1884   d. 15 Jan. 1946

Gerald Hillery Gus Jones
b. 18 Nov. 1906   d. 27 Sept. 1913

Kate D. Jones
1848 - 1922

J. M. Kimmons
1837 - 1910

Minnie P. Kirk
(no dates)

Strader S. Kirk
(no dates)

Mattie G. Lewis
b. 3 May 1853  d. 1 Sept. 1939

William E. Lewis
b. 18 July 1917   d. 29 July 1943

Ada Lowery
1881 - 1917

Arthur W. Lowery
1907 - 1959

Dovie Lowery
1889 - 1940

Ella Lowery
1887 - 1925

Emma Hughes Lowery
1885 - 1937

Harriet McKay Lowery
1814 - 1905

Jerry Lowery
1864 - 1928

Myrtice E. Lowery
1916 - (blank)
(same stone as Arthur W.)

Sally Lowery
1852 - 1917

W. W. Lowery
b. 18 July 1839   d. 8 July 1914

J. H. Luckie
b. 2 Oct 1887   d. 8 Dec. 1926
(Masonic emblem)

Mittiea Luckie
b. 7 Jan. 1890   d. 12 Mch. 1947

Clinton McFerrin
1872 - 1927

J. C. McFerrin
1899 - 1938

Savilla A. McFerrin
b. 20 Mch. 1889 - 29 Mch. 1911

Barbara E. McVay
b. 22 May 1938 - d. 7 July 1939

Annie L. Mathews
b. 27 May 1901   d. (blank)

W. Palmer Mathews
b. 11 Dec. 1903   d. 21 Jan. 1964

William Wiley Mathews
son of Palmer & Annie
b. 20 Aug. 1929   d. 31 Aug. 1929

Mathews
son  of Palmer & Annie
b. & d. 13 Aug. 1930

Irena W. Fails Mercer
wife of Seth
b. 20 June 1829   d. 1 May 1899

Seth Mercer
b. 13 Oct. 1826   d. 25 June 1912

Ella Morgan, Mrs.
b. 24 Feb. 1861   d. 5 Feb. 1940

Edward A. Newton
b. 3 Sept. 1874   d. 17 Sept. 1951

Frank H. Newton
son of W. H. & N. V.
b. 6 Apr. 1884   d. 16 Apr. 1908

George D. Newton
d. 28 Jan. 1961

Margaret E. Newton
b. 17 Aug. 1877   d. 25 Feb. 1971

Nancy V. Newton
wife of W. H.
b. 21 Feb. 1851   d. 26 Oct. 1902

Sarah Ellen Newton
b. 12 Apr. 1878   d. 30 Sept. 1910

Selman Bruce Newton
son of T. B. & Verna
b. & d. 15 Dec. 1926

T. Bruce Newton
b. 7 Nov. 1881   d. 3 Aug. 1939

Verna Cheatham Newton
wife of T. B.
b. 26 Sept. 1884   d. 17 Jan. 1927

W. H. Newton
b. 3 Mch. 1842   d. 18 Nov. 1922

Callie Parmer
b. 10 Nov. 1915   d. 16 Apr. 1916

Delia W. Parmer
b. 11 Oct. 1881   d. 7 May 1954

Hillery Parmer
b. 8 Oct. 1910   d. 23 July 1912

James M. Parmer, Deacon
b. 1 Apr. 1876   d. 3 Jan. 1951

Matthew Patton
b. 11 May 1832   d. 19 May 1901

John B. Perry
b. 22 July 1860   d. 30 Dec. 1939

Martha Antinette Perry
wife of J. B.
b. 20 Sept. 1859   d. 26 July 1931

Roy Owens Perry
b. 11 Dec. 1903  d. 12 Aug. 1955

Caddie Ponder
b. 11 Jan. 1897   d. 7 July 1944

Beulah Doud Powell
b. 4 Sept. 1885   d. 2 July 1963

Clarence B. Powell
b. 30 Sept. 1876   d. 8 Oct. 1928

Robert W. Powell
b. 3 Feb. 1920   d. 29 July 1970
Ala. T. Sgt. Depot Repair
Sq. AAF, World War II

Willie S. Powell
b. 31 Oct.  1906   d. 14 Oct. 1922

Amanda M. Rhodes
b. 22 July 1832   d. 12 May 1918

Bertha V. Rhodes
dau. of J. W. & C. V.
b. 3 Mch. 1893   d. 18 Dec. 1897

Henry E. Rhodes
1863 - 1937

James Rhodes
b. 14 Feb. 1860   d. 16 Oct. 1947
(same stone as Rosa J.)

James I. Rhodes
son of J. W. & C. V.
b. 22 Mch. 1897  d. 23 May 1899

John A. Rhodes
1851 - 1939

Myrtle E. Rhodes
1904 - 1926

Rosa J. Rhodes
b. 14 Feb. 1885   d. 18 Oct. 1967

William F. Rhodes
b. 13 July 1883   d. 12 Nov. 1954

Ann Taylor Roberson
1874 - 1954

Mrs. Sarah Sanders
b. 6 Apr. 1838   d. Mch. 1934

Inf. son
of Birdie & Cayrell Sellers
d. 18 Mch. 1937

Lilliam G. Sexton
b. 12 Feb. 1897   d. 3 Oct. 1916

Marion Sexton
b. 6 Mch. 1871   d. 8 Feb. 1918

Lewis E. Sharp
b. 23 Aug. 1879    d. Oct. 1937

Johnnie F. Smith
b. 18 Feb. 1908   d. 9 Dec. 1955

Rosa Bell Smith
b. 3 Jan. 1913   d. (blank)
(same stone as Johnnie F.)

Warren E. Smith
b. 22 Aug. 1880   d. 17 Mch. 1947

Zadie B. Smith
b. 15 Aug. 1886   d. 25 Mch. 1955
(same stone as Warren E.)

Mrs. J. J. Stabler
b. 20 Nov. 1849   d. 30 June 1928

Annie Elizabeth Sweatt
dau. of M. O. & Carrie A.
b. 2 Feb. 1906    d. 23 Oct. 1907

J. M. Sweatt
b. 23 Mch. 1847   d. 3 May 1933

Katie Lee Sweatt
dau. of M. O.
b. 9 May 1904   d. 7 Jan. 1914

Sarah E. Sweatt
b. 17 May 1857   d. 27 Oct. 1933

Arthur Lee Taylor
b. 8 Nov. 1919   d. 25 Oct. 1936

Uncle Jacy Taylor
b. 1 May 1852   d. 8 Apr 1936

M. Z. Taylor
son of Thos. Edmonson Taylor
b. Muscogee Co., GA
11 June 1838
d. 16 July 1898, CSA
(Obituary)

Pauline Taylor
b. 1 July 1924   d. 7 Jan. 1926

Pauline Holland Taylor
b. 25 Sept. 1893   d. (blank)

Senoba Taylor
wife of John Crawford
b. 3 May 1860   d. 14 July 1920

William Walter Taylor
b. 8 Nov. 1889   d. 13 Dec. 1971

Inf of.
Walter & Pauline Taylor
b. 11 July 1924   d. Aug. 1924

Taylor infant
d. 16 Oct. 1932

Joseph W. Turner
b. 17 Mch. 1888   d. (blank)

Winnie L. Turner
b. 31 Aug. 1885   d. 11 Sept. 1964

Georgia Missouri Urquhart
b. 7 Dec. 1858   d. 27 June 1903

John Franklin Urquhart
b. 1 June 1903   d. 23 Aug. 1903

J. T. Waller
b. 31 Oct. 1869   d. 11 Mch. 1945

James Waller
1901 - 1956

John F. Waller
son of J. T. & Mollie
b. 3 Sept. 1895   d. 6 Feb. 1920

Mollie Waller
b. 28 Oct. 1868   d. 31 July 1946

Christine Sylvester West
b. 24 Oct. 1849   d. 31 Dec. 1921

Eula Lee West
b. 21 May 1893   d. 13 Dec. 1943

Irby R. West
3 Sept. 1888   d. 5 June 1903

Mattie M. West
dau. of C. S. & M. M.
b. 13 Jan. 1895   d. 2 Sept. 1901

Melvina M. West
wife of C. S.
b. 20 Feb. 1857   d. 13 Jan. 1899

Infant of
C. S. & M. M. West
(no dates)

Angustus Calhoun Whitehead
b. 21 Sept. 1858   d. 21 July 1915

Claud Octo Whitehead
b. 10 Oct. 1896   d. 4 Sept. 1900

James M. Whitehead
b. 25 May 1889   d. 26 Dec. 1942
Ala. Engineman 2 C1, USN

Mary Ann Robebecca Bailey Whitehead
wife of Augustus Calhoun
b. 16 aug. 1858   d. 5 July 1913

Claude B. Wilson
d. 30 Aug. 1948

Mary A. Wilson
1878 - 1962

Copied 28 Apr. 1974 by Mrs. Walter Boyd, Mrs. Don Jaeckels, Rufus Watson & Madge Hahn

Source: Butler County Historical Society Volume XVII  September 1981  Number 3

ADDITIONS TO THE BUTLER CO., AL CEMETERY LISTS
2002 SIGHT LISTINGS OF
GRAVEL HILL BAP. CH. CEMETERY, GRAVEL HILL ROAD, GREENVILLE, AL.

*Listed are Parmer direct descendants of Ephraim Parmer, (1818 pioneer of Butler Co. who gave land for Greenville Courthouse) and their wives or/and children who are now all buried in Gravel HILL Cem...... by sight listing =M. LeGrand & Walter Ray Parmer; Feb. 2002

(wording is what is on the tombstones)

1 Thomas Jefferson PARMER, Sr. Son of John Madison and Martha Parmer, b: August 08, 1849 , d: December 25, 1938 ,

and (on same tombstone)

wife...Lucinda  Vicie  PARMER,  loving daughter of James and Leah Lowery, b: 1854   d: December 22, 1929,

2  Deacon, James Madison PARMER, son of T.J. Parmer,  b: April 01, 1876 ,d: January 03, 1951

(different tombstone; same walled plot)

wife...Delia Waller Parmer,  b: October 11, 1881, daughter of Daniel and Georgia Waller, d: May 07, 1954,

... 3  Deacon Willie Edward PARMER, b: October 17, 1905  d: September 24, 1998

(same tombstone )

Loving Wife & Mother... Alma Hardy Craig PARMER, b: March 13, 1905  d: September 24, 1998

4   Billy Edward Parmer, b: October 10, 1937,  d: 1938

5   Gail Parmer Gardener, b: 1954  d: 1977

6. James Franklin PARMER, b: February 06, 1908,  d: July 05, 1988

7  Hillery Daniel Parmer, son of Jim & Delia Parmer, b: October 08, 1910, d: July 23, 1912

8. Callie Lou Parmer, daughter of Jim & Delia Parmer,   b: November 01, 1915, d: April 16, 1916

9. Martha Rosanna Parmer, b: March 07, 1878, d: December 13, 1963

10.Thomas Jefferson PARMER, Jr. ..son of T.J. Sr... b: 1881, d, January, 1935

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