James Seale Cemetery

Date: 1852 [unknown]
Location: Wolf Creek, St. Clair, Alabama, United States
Surnames/tags: Seale Branham

Seale Cemetery, on former James Seale land

In 1852 James and Louisa donated 1 acre of their land to the Methodist Episcopal Church. ^[1] There are no marked stones. Since James and Louize both within two years of the donation it is presumed, but not proven that they are interred in that location.

There are still several unmarked stones but since 1974 and 2017 (visits by there by RHSeale) there are very few that have survived the repeated mowing, and are just stubs flat to the ground^[2]

Leona (Seals) Owens recalls going to Sunday school one or two years in about 1901, in a log one room church with wooden logs for pews and wooden pegs for legs. Right after that the church became a school which she attended for a year before her family moved.^[3]

The church may also have served as the Yale Methodist church, and perhaps used as well by the Wolf Creek Primitive Baptist Church. ^[4]

That land is now back in private hands.

This site is now listed on the Alabama Historical Cemetery Register, the second cemetery in St Clair county to receive that designation.^[5] Map location of James Seale cemetery, NW of the junction of Wolf Creek Road and Howard Dr. A volunteer nearby created a lovely carved placard mounted on the central tree in the cemetery (Inscription in error - established in 1852, not 1802)

See further details at: James Seale (1788-1853) and Louiza (Unknown) Seale (abt.1792-1854)