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Killgore-Pryor Cemetery
Pinetucky, Perry County, Alabama

GPS: 32.699126, -87.081613
T20N R10E Sec 16

Poplar Grove Church Road
Pinetucky, AL 36756

Contributed by Don Killgore Dec 27, 2005, last edited Jan 07, 2006
Total records: 51

Note: This cemetery is also known as, "Killgore-Heard Cemetery".

Driving Directions

From the Central Alabama Farmers Co-Op at 2519 US Highway 80 in Selma, AL go NW on AL HI 14 for 2.8 miles, then bear right at AL HI 219 and go 16 miles north. At the intersection of AL HI 219 and County Road 64 (C.R. 64 goes west), turn right (east) onto the unmarked Poplar Grove Church Road and go 1.9 miles east and north. At a trailer home on the left, turn left onto a dirt lane and go 0.2 mile to the cemetery.

Background

This cemetery is in a secluded wooded setting with "upper" and "lower" (west and east) areas and another separated area to the north. Although open, the cemetery is grown up in weeds and grass and a number of graves are hidden by a perimeter overgrowth of pine trees.

The name, "Killgore-Pryor Cemetery" was referenced in the publication, "Twenty-One Southern Families: Notes and Genealogies," by Elizabeth Pryor Harper (1985).

Generally unkempt, the cemetery does show some maintenance and appears to still be in use. The most recently marked grave is 2002 and in 2005, when this survey was made, there was a fresh grave observed. There are about fifty marked graves, perhaps fifteen graves with concrete slabs but no markers, and a large number of unmarked sunken or raised areas easily recognized as graves. The earliest grave dates from 1844.

Cemetery Records

The records below were compiled by Don Killgore, presumably from tombstone inscriptions...

Bolling, Eddie Jr., b. Sep 18, 1953, d. Jan 15, 1971
Bridges, Emma, b. 1894, d. (1982), s/w Esau
Bridges, Esau, b. 1894, d. 1977, s/w Emma
Bridges, Malachi, b. 1873, d. 1968
Bridges, Viola, b. 1920, d. 1934, Our Loving Daughter
Chandler, Lula Harris, b. Jun 14, 1934, Aug 15, 1989
Dobynes, James, b. Aug 17, 1926, d. Apr 26, 1967, Alabama Pvt Army Air Forces World War II
Dobynes, King C., b. 1894, d. 1963, s/w Zula M
Dobynes, Larkin, b. 1878, d. 1958
Dobynes, Preston, b. Dec 6, 1922, d. Sep 18, 1961, Georgia TEC5 933 AAA BN CAC World War II
Dobynes, Zula M., b. 1897, d. 1969, s/w King C
Ford, Maggie Pryor, b. Jun 4, 1886, d. Apr 29, 1932
Fuller, Ed, b. Feb 9, 1907, d. Jan 23, 1988
Harris, Archie Bull, b. Jan 10, 1936, d. Jan 3, 1999
Harris, Arzella, b. 1901, d. 1976
Harris, Benson (Pee Wee), b. Jun 3, 1926, d. Sep 2, 2001
Harris, Jack, b. Dec 8, 1885, d. Nov 8, 1918
Heard, E. Q., b. Mar 4, 1811, d. Mar 21, 1885, Father, s/w Eliza
Heard, George, d. Nov 19, 1880, age: 32yr, devoted husband, an affectionate father, a loving son, and a kind brother
Hopkins, Rosie Melton, b. 1919, d. 1976
Huff, Ira O., b. Jan 25, 1895, d. Mar 7, 1896, Son of J.M. and L.D.
Killgore, Martha, d. Jul 7, 1844, age 60yr, Consort of Robert Killgore
Killgore, Robert, d. May 10, 1851, age: 63yr
Mahan, Martha Miree, b. Nov 19, 1846, d. Oct 31, 1891, Wife of R. Q. Pryor
Melton, Calloway, b. Jun 9, 1935, d. Mar 2, 1980
Melton, Daniel, b. Apr 13, 1937, d. Oct 22, 1979, A2C US Air Force
Melton, Deacon Woddie C., b. Mar 7, 1932, d. Jun 15, 2000
Melton, Ella M., b. 1904, d. 2001, s/w J.S.
Melton, Jimmie, d. Mar 4, 1924, Alabama Pvt 157 Depot Brigade
Melton, Joseph, b. Jan 31, 1966, d. Dec 27, 1977
Melton, Lue Helen, b. Feb 10, 1937, Oct 5, 2002
Melton, Millie, b. 1870, d. 1938
Melton, Preston, b. Feb 11, 1907, d. Feb 5, 1980
Melton, Rev J. S., b. 1895, d. 1975, s/w Ella M
Melton, Rev W. M., b. 1865, d. 1943
Melton, Verda, b. Jul 24, 1909, d. Feb 4, 1997
Melton, Willie, b. Oct 27, 1926, d. Dec 26, 1971, Alabama TEC5 317 QM SVC CO World War II
Melton, Woodie Sr., b. Jun 25, 1908, d. Jan 3, 1987
Morton, Tom, b. Nov 12, 1871, d. Mar 2, 1922
Pryor, Ben, b. Jul 4, 1884, d. Sep 10, 1940
Pryor, Ida F., b. Nov 23, 1856, d. Mar 27, 1935
Pryor, Irene Dobynes, b. Sep 11, 1924, d. May 2, 1969
Pryor, Jim A., b. May 11, 1882, d. Feb 10, 1914, Husband of Rosie
Pryor, R. Q., b. Feb 6, 1842, d. Oct 26, 1926
Pryor, Stephen, b. 1857, d. Mar 30, 1923
Pryor, Stokes, b. Dec 24, 1889, d. Oct 21, 1946
Wallace, Cora Pryor, b. Apr 30, 1913, Dec 12, 1976
Wallace, Gracie W., b. 1875, d. 1944
Wallace, Simeon, b. Nov 11, 1871, Jul 28, 1947
Wallace, Tommie R., b. Jul 4, 1913, d. May 3, 1995