Charity Holland is the first known burial in Mt. Carmel cemetery. She was only 14 months old.

Mr. Daniels was a Belle Ellen resident. In 1900, a new railroad bed was under construction near his home requiring some blasting. A rock was thrown into the air by one of the dynamite shots. Daniels was observing the work from his front yard. The stone fell on Daniels' head killing him instantly. That fatal missile rests atop his monument.

Former residents are sometimes returned for burial in their hometown cemetery. Lavada Lawley Bowen of California was buried there in 1998 in the family plot. Her son, Charles Hugh, Jr., also from California, was interred in the following year.

Unusual headstones mark the graves of members of various organizations.

Many headstones reflect interests and hobbies.

This primitive wooden cross stands in sharp contrast to the new headstones found in Mt. Carmel Cemetery. This cross marks the grave of V.M. Vessetti.

The government supplied this tombstone for Confederate War veteran Jeremy Prather. Jeremy Prather was a stone mason who helped build the Blocton Coke Ovens. Three bricks from the coke oven ruins are cemented in the ground near the Prather foot marker.

Sons of Jeremy Prather, Zeb and James are buried in the Prather plot and served in the Spanish-American War.

Veterans from the Civil War, Spanish American War, World War I, World War II, and Vietnam are buried in Mt. Carmel Cemetery.

Mr. Polglaze worked in the coal mines and was killed in a runaway coal car accident. He was born in Penzance, England and had been a tin mine worker in Cornwall. His son, Richard, graduated from Auburn University (then named Alabama Polytechnic Institute) as a civil engineer. The Polglazes were one of Blocton's pioneer families.

Information was provided by Mr. Charles Adams and is found in his book, "Blocton: The History of an Alabama Coal Mining Town".