Mt. Nebo Cemetery

Mt. Nebo Cemetery, named for the nearby Montneba Presbyterian Church, predates that church and began as a family plot for the family of Dr. John Spearman Edwards, who moved from South Carolina to Jefferson County in 1830 and first owned the land. After Dr. Edwards's death on January 18, 1841, the land passed to his granddaughter Georgiana Latham Davis, wife of Dr. Elias Davis, a Confederate surgeon killed in the Civil War. After Mrs. Davis's death, the cemetery land passed to her sons, J.D.S. Davis and W.E.B. Davis, both prominent physicians in early Birmingham. The daughters of W.E.B. Davis later owned the cemetery and deeded it to the Trussville Memorial Cemetery Association in the early 1970s. Many early graves are marked by rocks and rock cairns, and burials include people who served in the Civil War and both World Wars.

Trussville, Alabama · United States