Maddera Cemetery

This monument belonged to one of Huntsville/Alabama's founders who was Archibald Maddera 1792-1849 who owned a tavern and inn in downtown Huntsville in the early 1800s. According to two historical references, members of the 1819 Constitutional Convention to form Alabama stayed at Madderra’s Inn on Jefferson Street. Alabama was recognized as the 22nd state from that gathering of 44 representatives.nnThis makes Maddera one of the most distinguished individuals of early Alabama History. In the 1960s his tombstone was dug up in a field southeast of here and brought to this (GPS) place when it was known as the Brockway Farms and set here beside the clapboard building shown here. In 2013 this photo was made by Ricky Wallace expressing his interest in preserving the history and this stone. In 2016 the stone was again found by Susan Hill who photographed it for the 2nd photo shown here. Sometime after that she came back for another look and this stone was gone. No one questioned thus far by me has the faintest clue where this stone went. Just lost as far as I can tell at this time. Maybe the bulldozers have ravaged it. This whole area was torn up by the bulldozers to make way for progress from about 2017 to this posting.