Florence Cemetery – Florence Alabama

Florence Cemetery in Florence Alabama is the final resting place of Alabama Governors, a city Mayor, and an author or two.

Florence Cemetery - Florence Alabama
Florence Cemetery – Florence Alabama

Florence Cemetery in Florence Alabama is the final resting place of Alabama Governors, a city Mayor, and an author or two. Immediately outside the cemetery walls, 6 feet under busy Tennessee Street lies a cantankerous outlaw who claimed “no one will ever run over me.” City residents saw to it his claims would prove to be false as thousands of people run over him every single day.

I visited Florence Cemetery on a warm April day.  Though a brisk breeze blew, a bright Alabama sun beat down upon me.  The sun burns me quickly at the beginning of the summer season and I was thankful for the copious numbers of trees which shade much of the older portions of the cemetery.  Scattered throughout the grounds are groves of tall standing Juniper trees.  Cemetery maintenance workers expertly prune lower branches away from tombstones and monuments making for isolated shady areas within which I enjoyed exploring tombstone engravings without the risk of an annoying April sunburn.

Florence Cemetery is on the Alabama Historic Cemetery Register as of March 2009.

Notable Tombstones & Monuments:

Florence Cemetery Mountain Tom Clark
Mountain Tom Clark
Trees in a cemetery
Shady grove of trees in Florence Cemetery
Emmet O'Neil - Alabama Governor
Emmet O’Neil – Alabama Governor 1911 – 1915
Crunk tombstone
Crunk tombstone.
Ovals in a cemetery plot.
Oval Grave Markers within a cemetery plot.

Nearby:  When visiting Florence Cemetery, be sure to “run” over Mountain Tom Clark’s gravesite on Tennessee Street, visit historic downtown Florence, and reflect on your visit with a Panini and iced tea at Rivertown Coffee, Inc. (as I’m doing right now).

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Florence Cemetery - Florence Alabama
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Florence Cemetery - Florence Alabama
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Florence Cemetery is notable for Tom Clark who was buried under a street just outside the cemetery boundaries. He was placed here so residents of the town could run over him again and again.
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