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Laud Cem # 520   T1S, R8W, Sec 23            
Surveyed January 2008 by Keith Hunt & Robert Torbert        
            
Location: From Lexington, go southeast on CR 51; turn left on CR 87; turn right on CR 497 and then take CR 499 to its end.  The cemetery is up on the hill behind the house at the base of a extra large oak tree.  An * indicates the correction of an error in the earlier survey published on page 395 of Cemeteries of East Lauderdale County, Alabama.    
Could Martha Jane be the Millie mentioned in the Shelton Cemetery which is located at the same address?  

 

The 1850 Census of Giles Co TN and 1860 Census of Lauderdale lists:            
                              1850                                   1860    
John Bently               74 yrs Farmer                      84 yrs VA    
Samuel  Bently          43 yrs                                50 yrs TN    
Reta Bently               45 yrs  SC            Henrietta  56 yrs SC    
Elizabeth Howard       17 yrs  AL            
Joseph Bently            12 yrs  AL            
Martha Bently            10 yrs AL                            20 yrs  AL    
Labrasan? Bently         2 yrs AL (female)            
         

Wilborn Cemetery 
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