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Here is some info that the Dale Co., Mailing list has come up with for the Old Windham Cemtery. Charles Loeffler got the ball rolling with some info , than Jimmy Allen put the info together and has it posted on his Henry Co., Al. site.
Charles found where some of this info is on Debbie's Vine Of The South site and has a photo of John E. Andrews tombstone. will give a link to all the sites mention .
Good luck to all.
When Mr. E.H. Hayes surveyed the Old Windham Cemetery in 1948, there were only the two graves visible marked with tombstones. Those of John E. Andrews and Thomas Windham. There are many more early settlers of that part of Dale County buried in what are now unmarked graves.
I have a copy of the article from the Southern Star of Ozark, AL of 23 Sep 1914 on the subject of the Windham Graveyard. This is very informative and interesting, giving some history of the area. I am going to retype below three of the paragraphs from the 1914 article.
"Mrs. Tom Willis, only daughter of Elisha Andrews, now seventy years old has spent her entire life in about a half mile of this graveyard and has noticed each internment. She gives me the following account of the location of the
graves of each one. I might remark that the graveyard is greatly neglected and fire has been run through it to burn out such things as would burn.
Also I may say that many of the graves have a species of the palmetto planted about them. John Windham was first buried and then his wife was buried on the north side of his grave. Just south of him sleeps the first wife , Mary Ann Peacock of Thomas Windham. South of her lies the remains of Thomas Banks Windham. Then comes in the order named beginning at the north:
Daniel Andrews, Mary Jane (Johnson) wife of Elisha Andrews, unmarried sister Cynthia Johnson, Jack Edwards, his wife Emma Edwards, Bud Andrews wife, child of Bud Andrews, and outside the wire in row, J. E. Andrews,
child of Elisha Andrews.
Next row of graves west of this beginning at the north end: Child of Nathan Mims, two children of Isaac Mims, wife of John Mims whose name was Nancy, John Mims, Isaac Mims, son of John Mims, Polly Mims, his wife. Child of
Daniel Windham, child of Jim Windham who is buried at Ozark, wife of Daniel Judah, Bank Albritton who was the son of Mrs. Daniel Judah by first husband, two children of William Hart, Thomas Bartlett, child of Loraine Wilson, a
man named Barnes who lived near Whaley's mill, two children of Jeff Davis, Frank Davis and one child, Mr Gardner, a royal arch Mason, child of Burrell Hallford, Jane second wife of Thomas Windham, child of Thomas Windham by
first wife, and a few other white people. The negroes are Isaac who belonged to Thomas G. Blackman, Eliza Dick and a child of Annie Dick.
Before his death grand daddy Tommie Andrews expressed his wish that no one should be buried east of him when he died. This wish has always been respected, and his grave and that of his wife, side by side, are situated at
the northeast corner of the grave yard and stand alone to the east of all the rest."
I should say that nowadays the Windham Graveyard is very difficult to find.
With a lot of effort I found it on one of my trips to Dale County in 1999.
There are no signs pointing it out, the area is all grown up in trees and brush, the two existing gravestones are not visible unless you stumble upon them. Harry Windham has also visited this graveyard recently and we wonder
if something can be done to protect it. What a shame for such neglect.
Charles Loeffler
Junction, TX
http://www.rootsweb.com/~alhenry/cem_windham.htm
Jimmy Allen's Henry Co., Site.
http://home.earthlink.net/~debsezhi2u/cemeteries/windham2.htm
Tombstone Pic
http://home.earthlink.net/~debsezhi2u/cemeteries/windham.htm
Debbie's site about Graveyard.
Good luck to all.
CGT
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