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Lauderdale County, Alabama
Coffee Cemetery (African-American)
Laud Cem # 110 T3S, T11W, Sec 20
Surveyed January 1989 by Orlan Irons
Location: From downtown Florence, go N on AL 20; Lt on CR 2 about 1.5m; Lt through a locked gate down a graveled Rd about 0.6 m to another gate; go through this gate, then Lt through another gate. Go E about 0.3 m through another gate. At the next gate go S about 0.2 m to a large wooded area. The cemetery is in the woods. Heavy Simpson's wife
had relatives buried here. They were black. (Hollis Rice or Chipper Ezell had keys to the locked gates.
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