| Summary: | A. L. Woodliff was born in Hall County, Georgia on October 7, 1827. In 1857 he moved to Gadsden and began farming. In the fall of 1865 he was elected to the Alabama State Senate and introduced the bill to form Baine County (which later became Etowah County).Captain Woodliff organized Forrest Cemetery in 1872 and the first person to be buried in Forrest Cemeterywas his own daughter, Sallie Law Woodliff, who was born February 4, 1871 and died July 13, 1872. Augustin Law Woodliff (A. L.) died in 1905 and is also buried in Forrest Cemetery in Gadsden, Alabama.
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