Woodham Family Cemetery
Dale County, Alabama

Woodham Family Cemetery is a private family burial grounds founded about 1848 or earlier by the Woodham family on Woodham land just north of the Choctawhatchee River in Dale County, Alabama. It is located about 300 yards west of the intersection of US Hwy. 231 and Newton-Echo Road (Dale County Road 18). This crossroads is just north of the Choctawhatchee River and includes a former truck stop, gas station, restaurant and other buildings. Located about 8 mi. south of Ozark and about 14 mi. nw of Dothan. Several neighboring families and friends have also been buried here. The cemetery was restored 1988-90. There are many unknown burials in this cemetery because the graves do not have tombstones. In the 1960's, there were numerous graves marked with elaborately carved wooden stakes or crosses. Unfortunately, all of these were destroyed during the restoration work. Many other graves were marked with rocks or bricks. Most of these were also removed and the locations of many of these graves has been lost. Thanks to J. B. Daughtry of Dothan, many of the "unmarked" graves now at least have a cement block with the name "unknown" marking the graves. This cemetery has been extensively researched by Robert Earl Woodham. He has added info from his family records to the listings below.

The Woodham Family Cemetery was founded on one of several farm tracks owned by Edward H. Woodham Sr. The first burials there are believed to have been infants. The first confirmed adult burial was that of Richard Ira Woodham in 1848. Richard was a farmer. The next known adult burial was his brother, Frederick, in 1852. Both Edward H. Sr. and his wife Sarah Dowling died in 1865 and were buried here. For many decades, their graves were marked with a short brick wall surrounding the plot. This had deteriorated by the 1980's and was removed. A new granite tombstone was erected during the restoration work.

The Woodham Family Cemetery Committee organized an annual Remembrance and Decoration Day at the cemetery and held the first one 28 Apr 1990. The first event attracted folk from as far away as Thibodaux, Louisiana and many communities in south Alabama and Georgia. The committee decided to make it an annual gathering. It is held usually on the fourth Saturday of April. A picnic is held at the cemetery in the picnic shed which was built during the restoration work.

The gathering is for all descendants of those buried in the cemetery, including the Bagwell, Stevens, Daughtry and Woodham families. The gathering for 2003 will be held all day 26 April, starting at 10:30 am.

Note: information contained in parentheses () [-]on this page is information supplied by Robert Earl Woodham or others and is not on the tombstone. Copied 1990.

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Woodham Family Association
3120 6th Avenue
Columbus,Georgia 31904

Woodham Family Cemetery

Founded ca 1848
near Newton, Dale County, Alabama

WOODHAM, (unknown) [teenager or child]

BAGWELL,	R. R.	13 Mar 1813	Oct 1866
BAGWELL,	Rhoda [Rhoda Corley,	1813 wife of Redden R.]	Oct 1898

(space)

(space)

(adult grave)

(adult grave) [marked with bricks and a small marble block]
["Sallie" Bagwell, dau of R. R.; wife of John Wesley Enfinger Sr.]

(spaces)

BRACKIN,

Ella Dau of W. J.

13 Apr 1891 and N. U. Brackin

15 Feb 1895

[dau of Martha Malinda "Mattie" Woodham and William J. Brackin]

Creek Indian War soldier, Alabama Militia
[Presley Nelson Woodham, son of Edward H. Woodham Sr.]

Native of old Darlington Dist., now Lee County, SC [Alabama Militia, Creek Indian War. Veteran's tombstone mistakenly gives wrong unit and is actually for Aris Bryant Woodham]

[2nd wife of Aris Woodham Jr.; born Old Darlington Dist., SC]

(several spaces)

WOODHAM,

Essie MYERS

[1889]

abt 1914]

(unmarked grave) [formerly surrounded with bricks]
[1st wife of Jasper Richard Woodham]

[infant of Jasper Richard Woodham & 1st wife, Essie MYERS]

[infant of Jasper Richard Woodham & 1st wife, Essie MYERS]

[Martha Ellen Daughtry, wife of John T. Cannon]

[hus of Rachel Woodham; Sheriff of Dale County]

[Rachel Woodham; tombstone should read "died AFTER 1910"]

Several spaces

[John Q. Bauldree, hus of Priscilla Adeline DAUGHTRY]

(unmarked grave)[dau of Joshua Daughtry; wife of John Q. Bauldree]

[two triplet daus of Mittie Cordelia Daughtry; unmarked graves]

US Army, World War II

[memorial stone; killed in action in Italy during WW II; son of John Wesley Woodham and Lillie Mae Sanders; father of Robert Earl Woodham]

[Joanna "Jody", "Joe Annie" RILEY, 1st wife of Edward Christopher "C. C." Woodham]

[twin daus. Of Ira Edward Woodham & Millie Ann Enfinger]

[unmarked grave; son of Edward Christopher Woodham & Joanna RILEY]

[unmarked grave; wife of Uriah Daniel Woodham; dau. of Presley N. Woodham]

[above 3 are unmarked graves, formerly marked with carved wooden stakes; children of Uriah D. & Sarah F. Woodham]

[above 3 are unmarked graves, formerly marked with carved wooden stakes; children of Daniel W. Woodham and Martha ENFINGER]

[NOTE: Daniel W. Woodham was buried here but later disinterred and moved to Mt. Carmel Methodist Church Cemetery]

[Major Holland Glover, son of Carrie Cordelia Daughtry & Lonnie A. Glover; gson of Nellie WOODHAM & M. H. "Fox" Daughtry]

[Confederate States Army; Sheriff of Dale County; hus of Nellie WOODHAM]

[Nellie WOODHAM, dau of Aris Woodham Jr.; wife of M. H. Daughtry]

[Anzilla "Anna" RILEY; dau of Moses RILEY; wife of Henry Terrell ENFINGER]

Child of H. T. and Anna
[twin infants of Anna RILEY and Henry T. ENFINGER; died in 1915]

[Curtis G., son of R. R. & Rhoda Corley Bagwell]

[Martha A. STEVENS, dau of Wiley & Mary Stevens; wife of C. G. Bagwell]

Unknown (unmarked grave) [child?; grave marked with bricks]

Unknown (unmarked grave) [child?; grave marked with bricks]

WOODHAM,	Cas	14 Oct 1868	30 Dec 1932

[Perry Caswell ("Cas") Woodham, son of Steven Moses Woodham & Amanda Galloway]

[Amanda Jane CORLEY, wife of P. C. "Cas" Woodham; unmarked grave]

(space) (grave ?)

Unknown, (unmarked grave) [adult grave]

Unknown, (unmarked grave) [adult grave]

Unknown, (unmarked grave) [adult grave]

[son of Wiley & Mary Stevens; hus of Sarah DAUGHTRY]

[Sarah M. DAUGHTRY, dau of Rachel WOODHAM & J. B. DAUGHTRY]

Unknown, [adult grave marked with brick]

Unknown, [adult grave marked with brick]

Unknown, [child ?; grave marked with brick]

Unknown, [child ?; grave marked with brick]

Unknown, [child ?; grave marked with brick]

Unknown, [child ?) grave marked with brick]

[Son of Aris Woodham Jr. and Caron Riley]

[wife of Steven M. Woodham]

[ch of Steven Moses Woodham and Sarah Galloway]

[son of Edward H. Woodham Sr. & Sarah Dowling; born Stokes Bridge, Lee Co., SC]

[wife of Frederick Woodham and John J. Golden]

(unmarked grave)

[infant ch of Richard E. L. Woodham & Elizabeth Ann Miller; grandch of Frederick Woodham]

(unmarked grave) [son of Frederick] [Confederate States Army]

WOODHAM,

I. Beniter [wife of Hillary H.]

1830

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Unknown, (unmarked grave) [adult grave]

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