PLEASANT RIDGE CEMETERY

Surveyed by Orlan Irons, 12 Sep 1990

To reach this cemetery from Florence, turn north off Cox Creek Parkway, onto AL 157 (Cloverdale Road); go 1.1 mile and turn right on Taylor Road; go 0.2 mile to the cemetery. The Cemetery is on the left side of the road and is beside the Pleasant Ridge Baptist Church. The cemetery is marked on the 1987 Lauderdale County HIghway Map, but the name is not listed. It has a chain link fence around it. The legal description is NW4, NW4, S27, T2S, R11W.

    NAME     BORN     DIED     COMMENTS
Mercks, Thomas Bennett         30 Jul 1933       2 Nov 1977
Kendrick, Margie Mercks               1935             1981   month & day not legible
Whitten (double)
    Jones T.                          1890             1957
    Emma                              1890             1956
Winborn (double)
    Reeder H.                         1898             1970
    Lillie F.                         1910             1962
McMullen, George W.            17 Jun 1854       7 Jul 1947
Clanton, Alice McMullan        26 Jul 1886      13 Feb 1980
McMullan, Carloyn Jane         29 Mar 1944       6 Apr 1944   dau of G.H. &B.E. McMullan
Baskins (double)
    Cecil L.                    4 Aug 1915      13 Jan 1977   footmarker: Cecil L. BaskinsPfc
             US Army, World War II, 1915 - 1977
    Pearl M.                    4 Mar 1914    no death date
no name                            no date          no date   rock and concrete block mkrs
Crosswhite, W. M.                     1881             1951
no name (small grave)              no date          no date   2X4 stake&brick marker
no name (small grave)              no date          no date   2X4 stake&brick marker
no name (small grave)              no date          no date   2X4 stake&brick marker
no name                            no date          no date   2X4 stake&brick marker
no name                            no date          no date   2X4 stake&brick marker
no name                            no date          no date   old funeral home marker
Baskins, Minnie                18 Apr 1902      21 Dec 1961
no name                            no date          no date   old funeral home marker
no name                            no date          no date   2 rocks for marker
Crosslin, Joe W.               22 oct 1909      21 Oct 1976   Pvt, US Army, World War II
Crosslin (double)
    James L.                          1873             1962
    Frances E.                        1888    no death date
Crosslin (double)
    Rev. James Edward<           1 May 1907      3 Mar 1974
    Annie P.                    20 apr 1912     19 Mar 1987
Crosslin, Samuel Darril          6 Mar 1941                   son of M/M James E. Crosslin
Crosslin, Billy Joe              2 Feb 1939     22 Apr 1979
Pounders, Nancy Rebecca          5 Mar 1943     21 Sep 1973   
Poole, Walter C.                20 Aug 1939     10 Mar 1989   footmarker: Walter C. Poole 
           US Army, 20 Aug 1939 - 10 Mar 1989

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