DECATUR, Ala. (WHNT) — People can now learn more about a historically Black cemetery in Decatur, and possibly even their family members, thanks to a grant from the Alabama Historical Commission. The ...
Magnolia-Sykes Cemetery was the city’s first all-Black cemetery. Solomon Sharper Sykes, who purchased the land off Old Moulton Road for the cemetery, and James J. Sykes, who was Decatur's first black ...