Yesterday, I posted a photo from Florence City Cemetery in Florence, Alabama. Here is a photo from the same cemetery. An outlaw from 1872 is buried near the center of Tennessee Street so the town’s folk can run over him every day. It’s a great story.
This notorious outlaw gang leader who boasted that no one would ever run over Tom Clark lies buried near the center of Tennessee Street where now all who pass by do run over him. In 1872 Clark, who terrorized helpless citizens during the Civil War, confessed to at least nineteen murders, including a child, and was hanged with two companions. Although graves were already dug in a nearby field, outraged townspeople interred Clark beneath Tennessee Street thus bringing his boast to nought.
Quite often, throughout history, individuals and groups of people are excluded from burial within certain cemeteries. Do you know of other examples?
