The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
It is considered a research aid and is intended to assist in locating sources that can be used as proof.
Per the quarterly publication of "Lowndes County Historical and Genealogical Society" v. 13, no. 3, July 1980
"Ivey Cemetery is located on County Road 40 (Lowndes County, Alabama) at White Hall, in a cotton field on the north side of the highway going from White Hall to St. Clair, about one fourth mile off the highway. Follow a dirt road through the cotton field (across from Don Freeman's grain bin)."
As of 1980, the land was owned by Todd Meadows. He bought it from Judge Harrell Hammonds. It was known as the Tyson Place at the time, but had been first owned by Elijah Ivey
The Cemetery site is now in a wildlife management conservation area. There are only two or three graves there
Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:
Author: William Allister Suggs
Elijah Ivey enlisted at Fairfield District, South Carolina, in the spring of 1776 he served for three months, two of which was as substitude of two of his brothers, in Captain Jacob Love's Company of Colonel John Winn's South Carolina Regiment and was stationed at the barracks at Charlestown. Elijah Ivey again volunteered in 1780 and served in Captain Thomas Starke's Company, Colonel Thomas Taylor South Carolina Regiment and was in the Battle of Eutaw Springs. The length of this service was about two years. In 1783, Elijah Ivey enlisted at Orangeburg District, South Carolina and served six months again under Captain Thomas Starke and Colonel Thomas Taylor and was stationed in Orangeburg.
After the war, Elijah Ivey went back to Fairfield where his brothers were, settled down married, and raised a family. Elijah married Mary Hartin at Fairfield, South Carolina in 1828 but was enumerated at Lowndes County, Alabama, for the U.S. Census of 1830. Eliah Ivey died about 15 January 1840 from a fall from a horse.
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