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Written by Chuck Rice
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The Verbena Historical Society is starting a project to photograph all of the markers in the Verbena Cemetery and post them to the "Find a Grave" website. Of the 760 graves, about 130 have already had photographs posted so we still have a large number to do. If you would like to help, please check the list by clicking on the link below then photograph some of those graves that do not yet show a photograph has already been done and upload your photos to the site. On the list you can click on each name to go to that persons page. Information on photo format and size is below.
Click HERE to go to the List
Once you have posted a photograph, please send me an email at
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and let me know that you have done so and I'll update the list. Also, please email me if you have any questions. Thanks for all or your help.
General photo guidelines:
- NO COPYRIGHTED PHOTOS!!!
- JPEG format preferred (.jpg or .jpeg).
- 200-800 pixel width.
- The photo must be less than 250 KB
- Cropped with no surrounding white space.
- No decorative graphics or animated GIFs.
- No post-mortem photos.
- No photos taken from other web sites!!!
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Written by Methodist Archives Center
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THE ALABAMA-WEST FLORIDA CONFERENCE
COMMISSION ON ARCHIVES AND HISTORY
HISTORIC CHURCHES
Verbena UMC
Verbena, Alabama
Built in 1876.
 Natalie Williams Anderson provided the following description of Verbena UMC: “There it stands in all its beauty! On a hill where the Verbena exit road from Highway 65 makes an abrupt (almost right angle) turn to the village. A building, simple and dignified, a white wooden building with a red steeple and bell tower, and red steps leading to a porch supported by four large columns. It is surrounded by ancient trees and beautiful greenery.”
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Verbena, Town Long Famous For Its Culture, Hospitality and Refinement Of Its Citizens |
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Written by Chilton County News
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(This article appeared in the Chilton County News first in February of 1931 and again in a reproduction of that issue in November of 1983.)
(Feb. 1931) - Verbena is a village situated on the L&N Railroad, thirty-two miles north of Montgomery and sixty-four miles south of Birmingham. Its population is about five hundred, composed of both white and colored people.
It has long been noted for the culture, hospitality, and refinement of its white citizens.
Its principal agricultural products are cotton, corn, and melons, but a great variety of fruits, garden products and other crops are raised for home consumption. Its soil is principally Ruston sandy, and Ruston gravelly, and Orangeburg loam.
Its elevation varies from four hundred to five hundred feet above sea level, and it is noted for its mild and delightful climate in all seasons of the year.
Graphite is the only mineral that has been discovered in sufficient quantities to justify mining operations, yet small quantities of gold, iron, and mica have been found within four miles of its center, and are mined and marked in small quantities from time to time. The deposits of graphite on Chestnut Creek about two and one half miles east of Verbena are of the finest quality to be found in the United States, and is being mined and refined by the Flaketown Graphite Company, and is shipped to all parts of the country.
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Prominent Citizen of Verbena |
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Written by Chilton County News
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 (This article appeared in the Chilton County News first in February of 1931 and again in a reproduction of that issue in November of 1983.)
(Feb. 1931) - The subject of this sketch is Mr. F. A. Gulledge, of Verbena, Alabama whose past life is as follows:
Born in Coosa County, Alabama, September 25, 1849, hence eighty-one years old. Born on a farm where he lived until he was twenty-seven. During his early boyhood days he obtained a limited education in the one-teacher school at Providence, sometimes missing one or two years and hardly ever getting more than six weeks schooling each year. Married at nineteen year of age to Cordelia Collier of the same community. She was born October 30th, 1845, hence eighty-five years old. To them have been born five children, all living and prosperous, in Verbena. His first home, bought with borrowed money, interest upon which was from 8% to 20%. Upon the sale of his home in the latter days of 1876, leaving him six hundred dollars, came to Verbena and invested in a small mercantile business which by strict economy, and perseverance his business increased from year to year until at one time it was the largest business in Chilton County. In 1884 he built the store now occupied by Gulledge Bros. and
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Verbena choir sings praises of WWII hero
By George Werneth (Mobile Press-Register)
MOBILE - Nearly all of the members of the Verbena United Methodist Church Choir traveled some 180 miles Saturday from their central Alabama town to a state veterans home in Bay Minette to celebrate in song the 90th birthday of a homegrown World War II hero and ex-POW.
About 15 choir members gathered around Oscar Excell Howard at the William F. Green Veterans Home and embraced him with the words, “What have I to dread, What have I to fear, leaning on the everlasting arms?”
Howard, family members said, weighed about 80 pounds when he was released from a German POW camp following seven months of captivity after his P-51 Mustang aircraft was shot down over the Black Forest.
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