 | 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. |
 | Another view of those
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. |
