Byrd Cemetery
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