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| Contact CCA | Send donations or correspondence to:
Chilton Cemetery Association
P.O. Box 2523
Clanton, AL 35046
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| Volunteer! | The CCA needs members and volunteers to help with the following projects:
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Cemetery Restoration Projects
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Cemetery Surveys Project
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Historic Cemetery Registration Project
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Lost and Ruined Cemetery Project
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Veteran's Headstone Project
Please email us if you can help!
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| CCA Officers | Jeff Reece
President
Ricky Mims
Vice President
Katherine Reece
Secretary / Treasurer
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Caring For Our Past
There are many cemeteries in Chilton County that have been forgotten or are neglected. These are the graves of our ancestors who came into the wilderness that was Alabama. They spent their sweat and blood to develop the communities we all enjoy today. These are also the graves of our veterans who fought and died for our liberties and freedoms.
They deserve to be remembered and their resting places restored and maintained.
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| Williams Goodgame Workday (228 reads) | | This workday has been canceled since we have rainstorms coming through and can't have concrete and mortar in the rain.
Saturday, November 21, 2009 beginning at 8:00 a.m., the Chilton Cemetery Association will hold a workday at the Williams Goodgame Cemetery. This historic cemetery in Jumbo has been heavily vandalized.
We need a volunteer with a pick up truck with a trailer hitch, and we also need water to mix up concrete. If you can help with either of those needs please contact Katherine at 294-2197.
If you want to volunteer but can't do physical labor, we need people to man "jigsaw puzzle" tables. At this cemetery the vandals broke the headstones up into st size pieces. If you can't participate please consider a monetary donation towards the work.
Directions: From I-65 travel north up Highway 145 about eight miles and turn right onto County Road 61. Go one half mile, the cemetery is on a slight rise on the right .
The Williams Goodgame Cemetery is a historic cemetery in the Jumbo community of northeast Chilton County. Thomas H. Williams buried here was the first Sheriff of Chilton County, back when it was Baker County. Thomas Williams was also a Lt. in the Confederate States Army. Other veterans in this cemetery are Edward Willis, also in the CSA, and John Crockett Goodgame who served in the Alabama militia during the late Creek war of 1836.
The images below show how this cemetery has been vandalized, please help us restore this cemetery by volunteering your time. Please contact us at
The grave of Nancy Williams, who died at the age of two.
The graves of Sallie Williams, John Williams, Robert Williams and Ocie Williams.
The graves of Tom Williams, Rebecca Williams, and Sheriff Thomas H. Williams.
The graves of John and Sarah Rasberry Goodgame
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| Obadiah Moore Cemetery Dedication (332 reads) | |
Heavy rains earlier in the week created enough damage to close one of the roads that visitors needed to take to get to the cemetery. Plus, the county had to come in and dump some gravel on the dirt road that leads directly to the cemetery. Despite all that, and the forecast of more heavy thunderstorms to come, there was a good turnout of visitors to the Moore Cemetery Dedication.
The new historical marker was also unveiled at the cemetery. It reads:
This cemetery is the final resting place for thirty-seven members of the Moore family. John Moore, son of American Revolutionary War Patriot and Battle of Charleston POW, Obadiah Moore, purchased this land on September 4, 1834. The Moore family migrated from Princess Anne County, Virginia to Pitt County, North Carolina, and then to Columbia and Jasper Counties in Georgia where they lived about 30 years before settling in the Chestnut Creek area of Autauga County in 1819. These early settlers served their community as ministers, postmasters, and a justice of the peace.
Obadiah Moore is buried here along with Civil War veterans Moses Moore and Hansford Chitty who both served with the CSA 59th Alabama Infantry.
Listed in the Alabama Historic Cemetery Register.
Marker erected in 2009 by the Descendants of Obadiah Moore Nonprofit.
September 20, 2009
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There was a good turnout especially considering the weather and the road closings.
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Sitting was restricted inside the cemetery itself due to the limited area. There are about 40 graves in this cemetery, most unmarked. |
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Revolutionary War reenactors signing the visitors book. |
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Outside the cemetery now flies a Revolutionary War period flag, the United States flag, and the flag of Alabama. |
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The Obadiah Moore Descendants Nonprofit organization raised the monies to erect a historical marker at the cemetery. The cemetery was registered as historic by the CCA, to view and download the historical certificate please click here. |
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(L-R)Kathryn Kotke, James Moore, Fred Kotke.
James Moore is the oldest living descendant of Obadiah Moore. Kathryn Kotke and Fred Kotke were the previous landowners who donated the cemetery land to the Obadiah Moore Descendants Nonprofit.
Fred Kotke and his son found the cemetery and cleared it.
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SAR representative Billy Spears along with DAR representative Mary Buehler, and Obadiah Moore descendant, opened the dedication ceremony. |
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Kat Reece of the CCA spoke on the Moore Cemetery and what qualified it as a historic cemetery. |
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Mary Buehler, descendant of Winney and Obadiah Moore, dedicated the DAR medallion for Obadiah Moore |
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Billy Speaks, SAR member, dedicated the SAR medallion for Obadiah Moore |
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Susan Moore Teller, descendant of Winney and Obadiah Moore, dedicated the DAR medallion for Winney Moore |
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A new granite veteran's headstone was obtained for Obadiah Moore by the CCA, Obadiah's previous VA headstone incorrectly stated that he served in the "Alabama Militia" |
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On the left is the DAR medallion for Obadiah Moore, the SAR medallion is on the right. This stone lays at the foot of Obadiah's grave. |
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The DAR medallion marking the grave of Winney Moore, wife of Obadiah Moore. |
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Mary Buehler and Susan Moore Teller place a wreath on the grave of Obadiah Moore. |
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Benny Harris, Obadiah Moore descendant, is inducted into the SAR. |
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Descendants of Obadiah Moore posing with a Revolutionary War reenactor. |
| The ladies of the Daughters of the American Revolution. |
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| Mullins Cemetery Dedication (328 reads) | On May 30, 2009, the CCA held a Dedication Ceremony at the Mullins Cemetery. If you would like to see pictures from our clean up days on this cemetery please click here.
Below are some pictures from the day.
 | Members of Boy Scout Troop 259, who
helped transport people from the parking area to the hilltop cemetery |
 | Reenactors from the 31st Alabama
Infantry were on hand in period costume and black powder rifles to lend some color. |
 | This headstone was placed to mark the
rock pile as the Ferrell baby's grave. |
 | Marzley Coker Ellison's new headstone
next to the one that her husband, John Ellison, hand carved when he came home on leave during the Civil War. |
 | We estimated about 75 people attended.
This view shows the Hadnot graves and overlooks the refreshments table and the Mullins enclosure. |
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attending |
 | The Vines area of the
cemetery. |
 | Descendants of the Mullins family
gathered in the enclosure to compare ancestry. |
 | CCA President, Jeff Reece, marking the
Prissilla Waggoner headstone as too fragile to touch. |
 | Members of the 31st Alabama Infantry who
were onhand to honor the Confederate Veterans buried in the cemetery with a gun salute. |
 | Kat Reece preparing to start the
ceremony. |
 | The Rev. Kenny Martin, Youth Minister at
the West End Baptist Church, gives the opening prayer. |
 | Some of the volunteers who worked on the
clean up of this cemetery. |
 | Hunter Bennett discussing why he chose
the Mullins Cemetery for his Eagle Scout Project, and what it meant to him. |
 | Ted Urquhart, 1st Vice President of the
Alabama Cemetery Preservation Alliance, discusses the CCA's work in the cemetery. |
 | At the request of the CCA, Ted presented Hunter with the historical
certificate, signed by Gov. Riley, for the Mullins Cemetery. |
 | The 31st Alabama giving the gun salute
to honor the Confederate Veterans. |
 | Terry Binion, the Band Director at
Chilton County High School, was on hand to play Taps. |
 | A young photographer taking a picture of
the Civil War reenactors. |
 | Members of Boy Scout Troop 259.
The CCA extends our thanks to these young men who worked so hard over three different workdays to help us get the
cemetery cleaned up and the headstones cleaned and re-erected. |
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| Cookbook Fundraiser (561 reads) |
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The Chilton Cemetery Association is selling cookbooks as a fundraiser. The cookbook is be a combination of family
recipes and history.
There are 150 family tested recipes here with an additional 32 pages on substitutions, cooking tips, microwave shortcuts, cooking terms, meat cooking charts, meat seasoning guides, candy charts, calorie charts, even napkin folding and table setting guides!
We are now shipping cookbooks!
 Please download this Sales form and send it to the address provided. Or pay by credit card using the following: CCA Members price - $10.00 plus $3.00 shipping and handling
Non Members price - $12.00 plus $3.00 shipping and handling
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