Deerman Cemetery

Nothing happens by accident, we are the sum of the parts of the puzzle assembled, we weave our lives but at the end we have a beautiful and well balanced tapestry and all those other innuendos. Being a very busy mom, one of my biggest escapes were books. People thought it was funny that I would plant myself under a tree and read a book.

I would read wonderfully written family sagas by authors James A. Michener, Elizabeth Jane Howard, Nora Lofts, and Susan Howatch as fast as they were released in paper book or became available at the library. I seldom paid full price for the hard copy. I was always impressed with the families that had a family burial plot. Little did I know at the time that my own family story is a wonderful family saga waiting to be written.

And we have family cemetery plots!! More than one!! The GenWeb has set up a marvelous volunteer network that is documenting and identifying the cemeteries around the world. Small family plots are having websites dedicated to them. I have written about the Mooring cemetery in Lake County, Tennessee in another blog but this blog is about the Deerman Cemetary.

The cemetery back ends to a farm.

Overview of steps that once led to the chapel.

A woman by the id MargaretCheney has posted on the ancestry message boards about the deerman cemetery .The old Deerman's Chapel & Cemetery is located about 7 miles south of Steele, Al. on old Highway 11. It was founded by Mary Deerman, widow of Solomon Deerman, after she moved to the area (Monroe County, Mississippi Territory) in 1816. She died in 1823 and is buried there. I feel sure others were buried there earlier. Henry Deerman, her son, died Sept 16, 1857, and is buried there.During World War II a large military base, Camp Sibert, was built on land which included the chapel, which was torn down and a new church was built across the highway. A fence was erected around the cemetery. Probably there were no markers for most of the older graves. The family of Mary Deerman lived nearby for many years and knew personally who of the Deerman family were buried there without a marker and where they were located. In 1984 several of Mary's gggggrandchildren contributed money for the purchase of a marker. I'm not sure but they may have purchased markers for other Deerman graves also.After Daniel Davis Deerman's death (he left three children), Rebecca Jane Pickens Deerman married George Washington Davis, son of Wilay Davis and Polly Broyles. Wiley Davis was a brother of Margaret, wife of Richard Deerman, brother of Daniel Davis Deerman.If you can locate a copy of the book "Ancestors and Descendants of the Dearman/Deerman Families", it contains the above info and a list of graves with markers believed to be related to the Deermans. I don't believe there is a history of the church or an official list of the graves in a repository anywhere.You probably already know that Rebecca Pickens Deerman moved with the Pickens family to Texas after Wiley's death, and married G. W. Davis in 1854 in Cherokee Co Tx, where she died in 1885. She and G.W. had ten children. She was born in Athens, McMinnville, Tennessee.

and here is the data of the Dearmans buried here found on its own website called "Magnolias and Peaches"

Deerman Chapel Cemetery
Saint Clair County, Alabama

the numbers above the names indicate the row and space of the gravesite.
3-21
Alewine, Rosa E [Deerman]Deerman Chapel Cemetery
1882
1922
NA

60-23
Bagget, Jane [Dearman]Deerman Chapel Cemetery
20 Dec 1845
20 Sep 1900
NA


60-28
Bryant, Julia [Dearman]Deerman Chapel Cemetery
20 Jun 1852
01 Jun 1929

-0
Dearman, Alvis B Mesopotamia Cemetery (Oak Hill)
22 Sep 1926
25 Feb 1977


36-15
Dearman, Andrew J Mesopotamia Cemetery (Oak Hill)
7 Apr 1894
3 Oct 1940


-0
Dearman, Christine R Mesopotamia Cemetery (Oak Hill)
18 Jul 1933
10 Jan 2002


36-2
Dearman, Kate R Mesopotamia Cemetery (Oak Hill)
9 Aug 1897
18 Jun 1943


36-3
Dearman, Leslie H Mesopotamia Cemetery (Oak Hill)
1 Jan 1917
3 Apr 1953


36-1
Dearman, Lynn H Mesopotamia Cemetery (Oak Hill)
27 Jul 1892
4 Jan 1957


-0
Dearman, Ruth B Mesopotamia Cemetery (Oak Hill)
14 Jun 1900
07 Nov 1976


1-4
Dedman, Mary Boykin Greensboro Cemetery
31 Aug 1858
21 Jul 1862


5-5
Deerman, Evaline [Harrison]Deerman Chapel Cemetery
08 Jan 1819
17 Jun 1890


5-4
Deerman, Henry Deerman Chapel Cemetery
27 Feb 1813
16 Sep 1857


-0
Deerman, Margaret [Davis]Deerman Chapel Cemetery
1794
1865


2-31
Deerman, Marvin F Deerman Chapel Cemetery
22 Mar 1896
31 Aug 1920


-0
Deerman, Mary [Brigman]Deerman Chapel Cemetery
1755
1823


60-9
Deerman, Richard Deerman Chapel Cemetery
25 Mar 1783
30 Apr 1849