Bivens Chapel Cemetery

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Bivens Chapel Cemetery or Bivens Chapel Methodist Church Cemetery was established sometime before 1836 and was associated with Bivens Chapel Methodist Church near Brookside. It contains more than 640 graves.

The cemetery was added to the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage on December 19, 1991.

The second Sunday in May is the cemetery's annual "Decoration Day"

Notable Burials

Martha Bivens (1806-September 15, 1836), Wife of Colonel Robert Bivens and daughter of John Aikins and Ann Aikins
Jim Parsons (1933-June 5, 2013), former Chief of the Birmingham Police Department
William Spear, Revolutionary War veteran

References

"Bivens Chapel Cemetery" in The Heritage of Jefferson County, Alabama (2002) Clanton: Heritage Publishing Consultants. ISBN 1891647547, p. 137

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