Remount Park Cemetery is located at the corner of Lincoln and Harrison Road in Montgomery, Alabama. Tentatively established around 1932, it is an African American burial ground. There are indications that other burials preceded those that began in 1932. Many markers are constructed of concrete atop surface vaults.
It is located on what was once pasture land near Remount Station during WW1. The Remount Station was where the Cavalry received their mounts near E. Fifth and Ann Street.
Remount Park Cemetery is, according to the city ordinance adopted and passed in 2010, not a legally operational cemetery. The amendment came in 2010 to put a cease and desist order on all cemeteries that did not have a Sexton, a map, an updated map of burials and lots remaining, full time maintenance or an owner that could be contacted.
It is quite unfortunate that the landscape has been decimated as it has but not to the degree of Lincoln Cemetery across the road, by amoral funeral practices.
For instance, on a recent trip to locate a marker for Chap Fanning, this row clearly disturbed by piles of dirt to open a grave has been allowed to remain and as a result I am willing to bet there are markers underneath all that dirt that was never smoothed out and or removed to another part of the cemetery because there are about six to eight graves that should be here according to a 2002 reading by the Montgomery Genealogical Society.
Markers such as Mr. Fanning's are some of the most vulnerable markers because they are easily knocked over, buried or pulled up.
I will return later to see if I can locate his father's marker which was recorded in this same section in 2002 in Row 6, somewhere near the Briers family. His sister Pinkie Fanning Streety is further up the hill.
Please note:
I am responsible for the description of the cemetery found on the website Findagrave. One of thousand of pieces of information I regret sharing after this once wonderful genealogical resource was acquired by Ancestry.
This list would not be as complete without the efforts of Cemetery Sue and the Montgomery Genealogical Society. I just came behind them and expanded their original reading with photographs. My book is always near at hand and is what allowed me to find Mr. Fanning. I can also pull up the interments I added here:
Anyone who legitimately related to these precious people, I will do whatever to help but I am not helping one single hoarder of the dead on Findagrave.
Those serial photo requesters can get out and mow the rows like myself and Cemetery Sue did.
I greatly appreciate the tireless work you and Cemetery Sue have done to help families find the grave markers of their ancestors including mine (Chap Fanning and Pinkie Fanning Streety). Albert's daughter, my great grandmother, and her husband, Julius Cato, are buried in Lillard & Woodard Cemetery in Oklahoma and I was so saddened to see that people are using it as a dumping ground for old furniture and junk. Because of warriors like you and Cemetery Sue, you are not letting these African American cemeteries be obliterated without record.
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