Cemetery: Old Escatawpa
Other: Escatawpa(New one) beside theOld
Escatawpa Cemetery that is covered with trees
and bushes,
Sign: No
Street: Escatawpa Baptist Churh-Minister
Waddell
City: Accross from the Escatawpa Baptist
Church, down a long dirt road
Township: Escatawpa, Alabama
County: Washington County
State:
Nation:
Zip: 36584
Status: Abandoned
Size: Medium
Directions: Highway 45
Type: Road-public
Location: Rural
Terrain: Level
Watersource: No
Features: Trees, Bushes, vines, Deer Hunting
Property: Private
Access: Open
Enclosure: Fence-Broken
Gate: Non-locking
Established: Mid to late 1800s
Gravestones: ?? Many
Oldest: That I know of 1870 but others early
and been told alxo Rev. Soldier
Newest: ?? cant't get into it
Removed: Unknown
Relocated: No
Repairs: No
Methods: Adhesives
Restoration: No
Association: Yes
Records: No
Inventory: No
Availability:
Landscaping: No
Paths: No
Trees: Yes4
Crypts: Unsure
Fencing: Unsure
Brickwork: Unsure
Ironwork: Unsure
Sculpture: Unsure
Fountains: Unsure
Roads: Unsure
Buildings: Unsure
Cement: Yes
Granite: Yes
Marble: Yes
Native: Yes
Slate: Yes
Others: Yes
Wood: Yes
Materials: Yes
Architectural: Unsure
Angels: Unsure
Draperies: Unsure
Fraternal: Unsure
Hands: Unsure
Lambs: Yes
Monograms: Unsure
Plants: Unsure
Photos: Unsure
Religious: Unsure
Scrollwork: Unsure
Urns: Unsure
Carvings: Unsure
Condition: Cemetery neglected
Unmarked: Yes
Broken: Yes
Toppled: Yes
Disintegrating: Yes
Buried: Yes
Weather: Unknown
Pollution: Unknown
Vandalized: Yes
Report: Yes
VA1: Gravestones-Overturned
VA2: Gravestones-Broken
VA3:
VA4:
VA5: Graves-Desecrated
Overgrowth:
Overgrowth1: Problem-Access
Overgrowth2: Graves-Disturbing
Overgrowth3: Gravestones-Disturbing
Overgrowth4:
GroundCover: Yes
Moss:
Vines: Yes
Drainage: Good
Problem1: Encroachment
Problem2: Apathy
Owner: Cemetery
Use: Agricultural
Bordering: Religous
Change: Same
Reason: Religious
Visited: Occasionally
Archeology: No
Habitat: No
Contacted: Dr. Arthur Woods-Dentist in
Waynesboro, Mississippi who owns the land
name: Sandra Waldrop Doolittle
Email: scalawag1867@aol.com
Date: 2/4/03
Surnames:
Batleys (other names can't be seen) Baxters
Brown Coopers Smith Stanley Wainwrights Waldrops
Williams Walker Moore Platts
Other_Information:
he old Cemetery was beautiful and many family
buried there including my ancestors, we know
they are buried there but can't get to them.
Many years ago a logging truck took a short cut
and ran over many of the graves. I would like to
see that these graves are taken care of. The
land is owned by Dr. Arthur (?) Wood of
Waynesboro, Mississippi. He is a a Dentist
there. I have contacted the Doctor he told me
that I was welcome to come on his land if I
didn't mind getting shot at by Deer Hunters in
the winter and watching out for snakes in the
summer. The land is next to the newer Escatawpa
Cemetery, I offered to by the land and he said
,"No, not unless I bought the whole 800
acres." That was the end of the
conversation. Please let me know if I can do
anything. I live in Columbus, Georgia, four
hours away, but I can be there with a little
notice. I am willing to write letters or call on
anyone. I just want to find my Great
grandparents, Doctor Joseph Ryan Waldrop and
Sarah Ann Baxter Waldrop. Dr. Waldrop was a
Doctor, Physician, Justice of the Peace and
State Rep. of Washington County 1878-1870. Dr.
Waldrop was ambushed , shot and killed in
Escatawpa, Al. near the Old Escatawpa Cemetery.
This was in the Mobile Register Newspaper. He
was killed August 1870. I would love to find his
grave clean it up and have a marker for him.
Sandra Waldrop Doolittle 7182 Midland Chase Loop
Columbus, Georgia 31909 Ph. 706-569-9779
Support:
Rev. Cliff Waddell-Minister Escatawpa,
Alabama J. T. Davison- Vinegar Bend, Ala. 36584
Barbara Waddell-P. O. Box 421- Chatom, Al. 36518
Vernice Platt Davidson Rt. 1 Box 114 Fruitdale,
Al. 36539 Vernice lives by the Cemetery, knows
everyone and has relatives in the Old Escatawpa
Cemetery.
