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      Coffee Cemetery (African-American)

      Laud Cem # 110    T3S, T11W, Sec 20            
      Surveyed January 1989 by Orlan Irons            
                  
      Location:  From downtown Florence, go N on AL 20; Lt on CR 2 about 1.5m; Lt through a locked gate down a graveled Rd about 0.6 m to another gate; go through this gate, then Lt through another gate. Go E about 0.3 m through another gate.  At the next gate go S about 0.2 m to a large wooded area.  The cemetery is in the woods.  Heavy Simpson's wife  
      had relatives buried here.  They were black.  (Hollis Rice or Chipper Ezell had keys to the locked gates.