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Revision as of 13:34, 23 January 2007
The Jefferson County Cemetery is a cemetery used by Jefferson County located at the end of Ball Park Road southeast of Morris. Used mainly for pauper's burials, the cemetery contains approximately 7,500 graves as of 2007.
Those buried at county expense are placed in pressboard coffins and prayed over by the Cooper Green Hospital chaplain. Often a representative of the Morris Beautification Board will provide a carnation for each coffin. The graves are marked by a cement-filled coffee can stamped with an identification number.
References
- Bryant, Walter (January 20, 2007) Loved in life, robbed in death, a common man is laid to rest." Birmingham News.