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Historic Marker for Live Oak Cemetery in Selma, Alabama
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James Bassett Gwin
1872-1921
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Closeup of James Bassett Gwin's Tombstone
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LIVE OAK CEMETERY
Selma, Dallas County, Alabama
The historic Old Live Oak Cemetery located in the city of Selma in
Dallas County, AL, was formerly known as the West Selma Cemetery. It is
located on the south side of Dallas Avenue in the southwest area of
Selma.
GWIN-VARDAMAN BURIAL GROUND AT LIVE OAK CEMETERY
There is only one Gwin-Vardaman grave at Live Oak Cemetery in Selma, that of James Bassett Gwin, Sr., husband of Adrian (Ada Bell Vardaman) Gwin . Mr. Gwin, a conductor for the Southern RR died when he was crushed under the wreck of his train near Greensboro in Green Co., AL, October 23, 1921.
James Bassett Gwin, April 21, 1872 – Oct. 23, 1921
This is James Bassett “Jim” Gwin, Sr., son of William Sutton and Ida Eliza (Bassett) Gwin and husband of Adrian (Ada Belle Vardaman) Gwin, born April 21, 1872, at Frog Level, near Belleveu,
in Dallas Co., AL – died October 23, 1921, near Greensboro in Green
County, AL, when he was crushed under the wreck of Southern RR Train #17
on which he was the conductor.
Note:
James Bassett Gwin was the husband of
Adrian (Ada Belle) Vardaman daughter of John F. Vardaman, She is buried at
Smyrna Cemetery in Coosa
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