For the last two years, Florence, Alabama residents have been working to gain historic recognition for the Florence City 
Cemetery. Now, members of the Florence Heritage Preservation Inc. have been informed that the cemetery has been added to the Alabama Historic Cemetery Register.
The oldest recorded burial in the cemetery was in 1831. Two governors of Alabama are buried there, along with Civil War and War of 1812 veterans – and possibly one veteran from the Revolutionary War. It’s an integrated cemetery. All classes and all races of people buried there. Over 12,800 headstones are found in the cemetery, but much of the two-acre cemetery has had burials, but no headstones survive.
Florence Cemetery is the second cemetery in Lauderdale County to get the Alabama Historical Register designation. The other is at Bailey Springs near Camp Westmoreland.
Read more about the Florence Cemetery in the March 13, 2009 edition of DailyTimes.com
Hello,
Am hoping you can give me a website address that would give the names of those buried in Florence Cemetery.
Thank you,
Kathy K. Phillips