Leath & Weems Cemetery
Location: Leath and Weems is an African American cemetery located near Columbia, Alabama.
Directions to the cemetery: From Columbia take highway 52 west to Cephus Rollins Road [unpaved road]. Turn left and go about 1/4 mile, look to your right and you will see a farm road beside an open field. Turn right on this road and cemetery is about 1,000 feet ahead. A 5 foot chain fence, with a gate, surrounds the cemetery. It is still being used and is maintained.
Photos: Needed
Surveyed: 2004
Submtted by: Ron Williams
Additional Comments: There are 32 [known] graves in the cemetery and 18 headstones could be read. Some could be read if the head stones were cleaned. There are 10 graves that have no headstone or markings on the grave, so these are unmarked graves.
Map: Needed, if available
Interments:
Last Name First Name Birth Death Comments
Hall Joe 9/6/1963
Leath, D.D. Rev. M. H. 11/11/1939 He has gone to the mansions of rest
Leath Nathaniel H. 1879 - 1959
Leath Lillie B 1881 - 1960
Leath Hosea
Leath Theodis H 1921 - 1998
Leath Nelson L 1/5/1886 - 4/0/1981 Beloved Father
Leath Nancy 4/11/1810 - 7/4/1906 Day of birth is either 11 or 17, hard to read.
Mindhim Mrs. Mary 4/26/1905
Pieroe Elica 3/12/1896 - 11/10/1897
Rainey Beatrice 12/19/1912 - 2/22/2004 -S L Ward-
Smith Thorney 1909 - 5/11/1905
Wymes Nelson 6/28/1925 - 7/22/2002
Weems Edward 4/7/1929 - 10/6/1999
Wyms Samuel 5/10/1890 - 11/7/1969 Alabama PVT US ARMY World War 1
Weems Lige 4/25/1892 - 12/5/1964 PFC Co.C 437 RES LABOR Bn ONC World War 1
Weems Ruby 10/6/1898 - 11/11/1968
Weems Mrs. Ella 12/0/1946