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Denniston Grave
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In March of AD 2001, a small unmarked grave was accidently disturbed.
Contained within were the mortal remains of the infant daughter of
Reverend Edward Denniston and Josephine Bonaparte Davis Denniston, born
and died, circa 1860.
Rev. Denniston, an immigrant from Ireland, came to this area as an Anglican missionary in 1857. He was the first minister of Emmanuel Episcopal Church, in Opelika, Alabama. He served the Church as its Rector until 1860. He died in 1898 and is buried in Opelika’s Rosemere Cemetery. Mrs. Josephine Davis Denniston was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and later lived in Greensboro, Alabama, before coming to Opelika. She married Edward Denniston in 1850. Mrs. Denniston was a classically trained harpist in her earlier life. She died in Opelika in 1922 and is also buried in the family plot in Rosemere. Mrs. Denniston was survived by one niece, Miss Josephine Denniston Pope, who came to America from Ireland to serve Mrs. Denniston as nurse and companion during the last seven years of her life. The infant who was buried here in an unmarked grave at the site of the Denniston home was enclosed in an unusual manufactured cast iron and glass casket, enclosed within a well built subterranean vaulted crypt, constructed of brick. After the completion of research related to this burial, the human and textile remains were placed in a new coffin and re-interred in the original repaired brick vault.
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