Old Harmony Cemetery

In the summer of 1784, William Jones and his two young sons were traveling with families from Georgia through this area along the Old High Town Path, camping near a large spring as they headed toward the newly British controlled territory of West Florida in what is now South Alabama. During the night, a band of Creek Indians attacked the camp, killing William Jones and many others, while his five-year-old son Edmond slept in one of the wagons and his three-year-old son was kidnapped and never found. The next day, early settler and trader John Gunter arrived, found Edmond, buried the dead, and took the boy with him, raising him like a son. In 1786, they settled along the Tennessee River at the present site of Guntersville. In 1814, the Creek Nation ceded this area to the United States government. In August 1818, Edmond returned, acquired over 500 acres of land, established Harmony Meeting House here as a memorial, and executed a deed for three acres for a cemetery.

Rainbow City, Alabama · United States