Cemetery: Nicholls Cemetery
Other: 
Sign: No
Street: Alabama Ordnance Works road
City: Childersburg
Township: Laniers
County: Talladega
State: Alabama
Nation: 
Zip: 
Status: Inactive
Size: Medium
Directions: North of Childersburg in the old Alabama Ordnance Works
Type: Road-private
Location: Rural
Terrain: Level
Watersource: No
Features: 
Property: Private
Access: Permission-required
Enclosure: None
Gate: None
Established: 
Gravestones: hundreds
Oldest: 
Newest: 1920s
Removed: Unknown
Relocated: Unsure
Repairs: No
Methods: Adhesives
Restoration: No
Association: No
Records: Yes
Inventory: Yes
Availability: USGS map
Landscaping: No
Paths: No
Trees: No
Crypts: Yes
Fencing: No
Brickwork: No
Ironwork: Yes
Sculpture: No
Fountains: No
Roads: No
Buildings: No
Cement: No
Granite: Yes
Marble: Yes
Native: Yes
Slate: No
Others: Yes
Wood: No
Materials: No
Architectural: No
Angels: No
Draperies: No
Fraternal: Yes
Hands: No
Lambs: No
Monograms: No
Plants: Yes
Photos: No
Religious: Yes
Scrollwork: Yes
Urns: Yes
Carvings: Yes
Condition: Cemetery poorly maintained
Unmarked: Yes
Broken: Yes
Toppled: Yes
Disintegrating: Yes
Buried: Unsure
Weather: No
Pollution: No
Vandalized: No
Report: Yes
VA1: 
VA2: 
VA3: 
VA4: 
VA5: 
Overgrowth: None
Overgrowth1: 
Overgrowth2: 
Overgrowth3: 
Overgrowth4: 
GroundCover: 
Moss: 
Vines: 
Drainage: Good
Problem1: 
Problem2: 
Owner: City
Use: Industrial
Bordering: Industrial
Change: Unknown
Reason: Roads
Visited: Unknown
Archeology: No
Habitat: Unknown
Contacted: 

Surnames:

Butts, Caldwell, Corley, Easley, Ellington, Ferguson, Keith, Nicholls

Other_Information:

This cemetery is one of 6 included in land that was bought in 1941 by the U.S. Army to build ordnance 
factories. It is now owned by the city of Childerburg. It appears the city bush hogs a few times a year. A few 
headstones broken off from such.

Keith family has a private plot in the middle.

A few graves are marked but there are hundreds more that are not. Lots of depressions in the ground.

Rarely visited cemeteries scattered across area by Rob Strickland

Support:

City of Childersburg

118 6th Street S.W.

Childersburg, Al. 35044



Phone: 256-378-5521

E-Mail: a_dministration@childersburg.org

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name: Rob Strickland
Email: r_ob@coosahs.net
Date: 4/12/03