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Cemetery Notes: On the 25th day of May, 1901, Norville Dunn, a farmer, in consideration of the sum of fifteen ($15.00), deeded property in Knoxville Alabama, Greene County to the trustee board of Mt. Pleasant Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, to build a community cemetery.
The land for the cemetery consists of 3,375 square yards. (A little less than an acre.) African-Americans are the only persons buried in this cemetery.
In 1922, a burial society was formed which still exists today. People who joined the society paid dues of 25 cents each month to defray the cost of their burial. Members of the society did not have to be members of the church and could choose to be buried elsewhere.
In 1990, the cemetery began running out of space for burials and decided to restrict burial only to church members who were in good standing and paid their tithes regularly.
No record has been kept of how many bodies are buried in this cemetery. Many families chose to bury their loved ones on top of each other. Some graves are marked with hickory rocks and the engravings were done with a chisel by hand. Other graves have no markers.
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