Ellard Cemetery
Ellard Cemetery, formerly known as the Barton Community Cemetery, Barton Cemetery or McDonald Cemetery is a small cemetery located ay 1751 Gadsden Highway, adjoining the much-larger Jefferson Memorial Gardens in Trussville
The cemetery contains burials that were moved from a family cemetery on the Barton Farm, on land now occupied by Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport.
The oldest burial associated with the cemetery is that of Andrew Barton, who died in 1848. It became a community cemetery in 1856 when Nancy Ellard, the first wife of William Washington Ellard, passed and the Barton's allowed her to be buried on the farm.
The land was sold in early 1888 and the new cemetery plot in Trussville was dedicated on March 14 of that year. In 1994, Nancy Ellard, along with fifty other relatives that had remained in the family plot, were relocated to the Trussville cemtery to make room for expansion of the airport's north-south runway.
Notable burials
- Andrew Barton (1816-1848), the first burial at Barton Farm
- Daniel Eastis (1861-1887), the first burial in the Trussville plot
- Nancy Collister Montgomery Ellard (1822-1856)
- Robert Ellard, (1924-1944)
- William Ellard (1821-1897)
References
- "Ellard Cemetery, Trussville" in The Heritage of Jefferson County, Alabama (2002) Clanton: Heritage Publishing Consultants. ISBN 1891647547, p. 137
- Dykes, Carl W. (July 13, 2009) "Ellard Cemetery" DixieStones.net - accessed October 24, 2016
External links
- Ellard Cemetery at Findagrave.com