St. Michael's Cemetery

In the north section of St. Michael's Cemetery were buried many enslaved people who had labored on Faunsdale Plantation since its founding in 1843. The earliest identified burial in the black section of the cemetery is Barbary (Harrison), a house servant on the plantation who died at age 70 in March 1860. Earlier graves had once been marked by wooden markers that later vanished. This ground held not only enslaved people and freedmen but also many of their descendants, with the last burial there in 1960. Those buried here were communicants of the Episcopal faith and first attended St. Michael's Church, then Faunsdale Chapel after Louisa M. Collins Harrison had it erected for them and it was consecrated in June 1861.

Alabama · United States