Fikes Cemetery

Submitted by the late Herman Belcher

Fikes Cemetery is 15 southwest of Brent, Alabama on State Highway 25. Go to the 74 mile marker and go into the woods South for about 1/2 mile. You can be within 10 feet of the cemetery and not see it. At one time this cemetery looked like it was a very nice, well to do cemetery. It was enclosed in a fence with corner post made of cement, but wire and post now decayed, so it is hard to tell what they were. There are about 6 graves in the cemetery, but only 2 with dates you can read. The others are on metal grave markers.

Fikes, E. (this is Elzy), Feb 27, 1829 - Feb 21, 1902

Fikes, Sarah E. (She was Sarah Elizabeth Moore Fikes), Feb 11, 1835 - May 17, 1907, Wife of Elzy Fikes