nd not a cloud in the sky.
I got to the cemetery early and searched for the graves of my maternal great grandparents, William Cole Smith and Barbara Ann Mays Smith, his 2nd wife. I didn't know they were buried there until I started working on the Smith Family genealogy a few years ago. Over the years I have taken photos of graves of my ancestors and for this blog, I am going to post them here for a record of all of these. Today I will include my maternal grandparents and tell where they are buried.
My mother's parents were Oswald Cole and Bessie Jewel Mayberry Smith. They are buried near Danley's Cross Roads at Liberty, a country cemetery. Until a few years ago there was a Methodist Church across the road from the cemetery. The church has been moved.
Mama Smith's parents, Joel Thomas and Emma Elizabeth Mayberry, are
also buried at Liberty cemetery also. Great Grandmother Mayberry's family were Spratlings from Waverly, AL. This would be my great-great-grandparents. Papa Smith's grandfather, Joshua Cole Smith, went back to NC during the Civil War and we don't know the location of his grave, although we have pictures of his father Samuel's and grandfather John Smith's graves in Reidsville, NC.
My mother, Ruth Smith Wilson, and my dad, James Lawrence Wilson, are buried at New Ebenezer Baptist Church cemetery in Curtis community, between Elba and Opp, AL. We own the plot behind them.
