Smalls Mortuary is what you want in a time of need. Carlos…read moreBlack was top notch and spot on with every aspect of walking my family through the passing of my grandfather. During death emotions are high but someone being able to make you smile or knowing when you simply need a shoulder is the professionalism that Carlos and the team at Smalls Mortuary exudes. Thank you so much

They were so insensitive and disrespectful to my sister regarding her husband, refusing to…read moreacknowledge her marriage. They actually gave her a letter to hold them; the funeral home harmless, "to cover their behinds from a potential lawsuit." While she was grieving her husband they gave her this letter at the church and then because didn't sign it, they took upon themselves to follow her to her home, without her knowledge, to try to pruseude her to sign it. From the Very get, Smalls Furneral Home was very rude to my sister and caused her great distressed during an already sad time of grief. Absolutely Disgraceful, Shameful & UnChristian business practice!!! Unethical & RUDE " Eternal peace was within your reach and you turned it down,' he wept, 'and now it is too late. Your enemies will pile up earth against your walls and encircle you and close in on you, and crush you to the ground, and your children within you; your enemies will not leave one stone upon another- for you have rejected the opportunity God offered you.' Then he entered the Temple and began to drive out the merchants from their stalls, saying to them, 'The Scriptures declare, My Temple is a place of prayer; but you have turned it into a den of thieves'" (Lk.19:36-46 TLB)."

This tree is part of a very interesting piece of folklore and putative Mobile History. In essence,…read morein 1835, a man (Charles Boyington) was charged, convicted and hanged for the murder of his best friend. On the gallows before the hanging, he proclaimed that an oak tree would grow from this heart as evidence of his innocence. A few years later, someone else confessed to the crime and surprising to most, a tree had already started growing. This is said tree...approximately 190 years old. BTW, Live Oak trees can live up to 500 years. I certainly hope it will.

The legend of this tree is definitely cool. Back in 1835, Charles Boyington was convicted of the…read moremurder of his friend, Nathaniel Frost. Throughout the trial and after his conviction and he sentence to be hanged, Boyington proclaimed his innocence. Just prior to his death, Boyington stated that his innocence would be proven when an oak tree would grow out of his heart and from his grave. Later, two people would confess to the crime, but unfortunately, it was too late for Boyington. An oak tree did indeed grow from the location of where he was buried and still stands today. There are claims that people hear crying and whispering near the tree and attribute it to the ghost of Charles Boyington seeking his vindication. I love these cool discoveries and ghost stories. If you are in Mobile, Alabama, I recommend seeking this tree out.

A lovely place to walk around and visit for some local history & art. I believe there are over…read more35,000 graves here and it is well maintained by the City of Mobile. I think this is the third cemetery in Mobile after Church Street Graveyard & Cathedral Square. There is so much to see here, part of the cemetery is The Mobile National Cemetery, plus there are old Jewish graves & Confederate Soldiers graves. There are many statues & beautiful headstones, mausoleums, & many people are still buried here today. It is free to visit, safe, I see families walking, exploring, people jog through, ride bikes, walk dogs. I believe the cemetery is open from 8am to 5:30pm everyday. The only bad thing I can say is that you have to be very careful about where you park your car, it can be very muddy from the rain Mobile gets year round. There are signs advising of this. There is a nice park next door, I usually park there and walk over.

The ladyfriend loves exploring old cemeteries whenever we travel so on our recent road trip to…read moreMobile, we stopped here. The cemetery thing is hit or miss with me. If there is a famous person's tombstone or there is something unique about a cemetery then I enjoy it but if not it's just blah to me. Magnolia Cemetery had me somewhere between enjoyment and blah. We read on the pamphlet that we got at the Alabama Welcome center that you could get a map at the cemetery itself inside the office. Why this map isn't just on the pamphlet, I don't know. There weren't any cars at the office (more like a house) and it seemed unwelcoming. I wasn't about to knock on the door of a house in a cemetery. If you tick them off, they know where to hide bodies!!!! So we just set out to explore ourselves. There were gravesites of a lot of civil war soldiers on both sides of the road and lots of old graves from the early 1800's. Some tombstones were worn so bad that you couldn't read names or dates. Many tombstones were toppled over and in need of repair. I'm not sure if this brought a sense of historic decay or is just neglect. There were makers all around with random numbers but I have no idea what they meant since I had no map. They have a website but you can't access the map there either. We still enjoyed walking around but it would have been better to know what we are looking at. It's worth checking out but it's not Arlington Cemetery or Vicksburg.