Byrd Cemetery

This file was contributed and is copyrighted by:
Fred Elgin Rowe and Jane Ashford Rowe

Survey done December 7, 2003
Page last updated December 18, 2003

The Byrd Cemetery is located in Lawrence County, AL. It is in the middle of a field, surrounded by a low cement wall, about 
a half-mile west of Courtland on Hwy 20 about a mile north of Hwy 20 W. Byrd Cemetery is located on private property.


USGS Site Information - http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis/web_query.gnis_web_query_form
Feature Name: Byrd Cemetery
Feature Type: cemetery
State: Alabama
County: Lawrence
USGS 7.5' x 7.5' Map: Courtland
latitude	344219N
Longitude	0872000W

Reading the first row starting at the SW corner, reading S to N:
					Notes: by Fred E. Rowe
Octavous Byrd			Age 19, Son of William Byrd and Martha Hicks Byrd
January 18, 1832
November 28, 1851

Pemberton Byrd			Age 25, Son of William Byrd and Martha Hicks Byrd
May 28, 1821
January 21, 1856

Minerva Conner			Age 24, Formerly Minerva Byrd, wife of Dr. J. M. Conner, 
January 19, 1825		daughter of William Byrd and Martha Hicks Byrd
October 27, 1849

John A. Byrd			Age 20, Son of William Byrd and Martha Hicks Byrd
November 2, 1817
August 1837

William Byrd			Age 55, (John) William Byrd, husband of Martha Hicks Byrd
December 12, 1786
July 9, 1831

Martha Hicks			Age 84, wife of William Byrd, born about 1786, died after 1870.
Age 84

Reading the second row starting at the SW corner, reading S to N:

There is a base with no headstone or foot marker (reserved for future use?).

Samuel Percy Byrd		died as an infant, son of Bolling and Grizelle
September 14, 1868
February 19, 1869

William Bolling Byrd		age 29, son of Bolling and Grizelle
May 5, 1859	
January 26, 1888	

Grizelle Torian Byrd		age 46, wife of Bolling Byrd
June 6, 1838	
July 23, 1884

Bolling Byrd			age 66, son of William Byrd
September 15, 1822		Boling Byrd is not included in the 1870 LC
December 10, 1888		Census, but later court records show him alive.

Mary Torian Byrd		age 21, daughter of Bolling and Grizelle
March 30, 1861
July 4, 1882

Mattie Byrd			age 22, Martha Jane Byrd daughter of Bolling and Grizelle 
October 21, 1827
May 11, 1881