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From: "Bill King" <>
Subject: Sepulga, Conecuh County, AL <William Witherington, Jr.>
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 11:36:02 -0600


Sepulga Post Office
Sepulga Baptist Church
Sepulga Community in early Conecuh County.

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From: "Joyce" <>
Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 11:34 AM
Subject: Re: [ALCONECU] Sepulga Community or Sepulga Post Office

The following is thought to have been copied from the book,
"People and Places of Conecuh County, Alabama".

On Sep 21, 1821 the post office was already operating in Sepulga with a Mr. Everatt
serving as postmaster. The Legal description of the post office in Sepulga Conecuh Co.,
AL. was on
the Northwest one quarter of the Southeast one quarter of Sec 27, Township 8 North, Range
11 East. It is not known how early this settlement evolved, but it was located on the
stage coach road, and nearby the Old Federal Road that brought these settlers to south
Alabama through Georgia and the Carolinas.
Early settlers were Thompson Hamilton Coker, and Epsey Ann Grace. The Grace family was
the earliest known settlers in northern Conecuh Co., having arrived from Georgia in 1812.
Duncan McCall received his land grant at Sepulga for his service in the Creek Indian War,
and Nathan Stucky was paying taxes on 62 acres in 1819. Other families were the Skinners,
Johnson, Cook, and Etheridge. They located on the banks of their water source, Sepulga
Creek. The land was low and swampy and flooded during rainy seasons. This lead to fever
outbreaks over the years, but the residents stayed for over 60 years.
The last record of a post office in Sepulga was on Sep 30 1859 with Waddy T. Means
serving as its postmaster. In 1854 the Sepulga Baptist Church was a member of the
Bethlehem Baptist Association with J. T. Thomas minister and J. Jones serving as elder.
The church had 33 members. In the early 1880's Typhoid fever occurred taking many
inhabitants. The survivors then moved for safer higher grounds not prone to flood.

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Below was copied from Bureau of Lands, Government Land Office on-line records.
Earliest land recordings for William Witherington, Jr.
Cahaba Land Office: Wm Witherington Land at Section 10, T-7, R-11 in Conecuh County, AL.
In all, there were 3 - 80 acre parcels, for a total of 240 acres. The Witherington land
was a bit west of the Sepulga Post Office location, at Fork Sepulga.... at the convergence
of the East and West branches of the Sepulga River. The Witherington family likely lived
on these lands beginning about 1820, but just got around to recording them in 1833.

The three Witherington parcels were all located in:
Section 10, T-7, R-11 in Conecuh County, AL
1) W half of the NW Quarter 80 acres
2) E half of the NW Quarter 80 acres
3) W half of the NE Quarter 80 acres


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