Sunday, April 20, 2008
Huntsville Times
Many famous - and infamous - North Alabamians are among the 80,000 people buried in Maple Hill Cemetery.
Here are a few of them:
Madame Jane Childs (1806-1882). Wife of Athens College's president during the Civil War, she stood at the college's entrance to block Yankee soldiers from burning the campus.
Gov. Clement Comer Clay (1789-1866). One of five former Alabama governors buried in Maple Hill, Clay was Huntsville's first lawyer and served in both the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives. He and his wife, Susanna, lost everything during the Civil War and are buried in modest graves.
