Re: Center Port, AL
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Re: Center Port, AL
martha sue HARRELSON 1/01/09
Hi Martha-
I was never able to find anyone with Church records. That area was known as historic Susanna. Much of that is now under water (Lake Martin backwaters). In 2001 my husband and I did a survey of the cemetery and posted the inscriptions on the US GenWeb Tallapoosa Co. AL site. As you probably know your GrGrandfather John R. Umphress and his wife Martha Johnston are buried there. MY 2nd Gr Grandfather Thomas S. Guthrie, his wife Susan and his brother James E. Guthrie are also buried there.
On the wall separating the cemetery from the backwaters is an inscription which includes "Center Port Church established 1873 the presant church was built 1885. Paster was Joh. Umpres, Preant. Past J.A. Smith"
Pat Guthrie Gilbert
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