Aurora Cemetery

Location:

Lawson Gap Road

Aurora, Etowah County, Alabama

34.116535   -86.190254

Find A Grave Cemetery ID:1976894

Date of Visit: March 12, 2014

Memorial/Epitaph

Brothers Together

Again With Family

                                                                                                        James W. 

Humphrey

1836-24 Jan 1863

Pvt Co D 34 Ga Inf

John Humphrey

1838 - 3 Oct 1864

Co K 21 Ga Vol Inf

David Crockett

Humphrey

1841 - 7 Oct 1862

Co K 21 Ga Vol Inf

Andrew Jackson 

Humphrey

1844 - 14 Dec 1865

Co K 21 Ga Vol Inf

Co F 1 Reg US Vol

The memorial is to four brothers. These men were the children of David and Martha Humphrey. In 1860 John, David, and Andrew were living with their parents in Chattooga County, Georgia. James, the oldest son, was living near Alpine Georgia across the state line in Cherokee County, Alabama. When war came brothers enlisted the Confederate Army. None would make it back home. 

James enlisted in Company D of the 34th Georgia Infantry in 1862. This company raised was in Chattanooga County. James died June 24, 1863 in a hospital in Strawberry Plains, Tennessee. Surgeon Green reported that James died of chronic diarrhea with 62 dollars, a knife and a comb in his pockets. It is believed that he is buried at Strawberry Plains in an unmarked grave. Soldiers that died in hospitals were buried in the Strawberry Plains Cemetery and were later moved to the Confederate Cemetery in Knoxville. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for James W. Humphrey, 34th Georgia Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, August 9, 2025,  (http://www.fold3.com).
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/89889797/james_w-humphrey: accessed August 9, 2025), memorial page for James W Humphrey (1836–24 Jan 1863), Find a Grave Memorial ID 89889797, citing Aurora Cemetery, Aurora, Etowah County, Alabama, USA; Maintained by: Find a Grave.
• "Jefferson County in the Civil War," Jefferson County, Tennessee Genealogy& History, The U.S. Genweb Project, https://jefferson.tngenealogy.net/about-jefferson-county/44-history/491-jefferson-county-in-the-civil-war

John enlisted in Company K of the 21st Georgia Infantry in Summerville, Georgia in March of 1862.  John was furloughed home in the spring of 1863. Returning to Virginia he was admitted to a hospital at Camp Winder in Richmond in June of 1863.  He remained in the hospital until at least October. John died in Christian's Factory hospital in Lynchburg on March 20, 1864.  This was one 40 tobacco warehouses in this town that were converted to hospitals during the war.  Its is thought that John was buried near the hospital. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for John Humphrey, 21st Georgia Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, August 12, 2025,  (http://www.fold3.com).
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/89889905/john-humphrey: accessed August 12, 2025), memorial page for John Humphrey (1838–3 Oct 1864), Find a Grave Memorial ID 89889905, citing Aurora Cemetery, Aurora, Etowah County, Alabama, USA; Maintained by: Find a Grave.
• "Confederate Hospitals in Lynchburg," Old City Cemetery Museums and Arboretum, https://www.gravegarden.org/confederate-hospitals-in-lynchburg

David Crockett Humphrey's was the first brother to enlist. He joined Company K of the 21st Georgia in June of 1861. The musters in the winter of 1861 found David sick at various places. In February of 1862 he was back home in Summerville on sick leave. He returned to Virginia only to contract phthisis pulmonalis (tuberculosis) and died in General Hospital #2 in Lynchburg, Virginia. He was buried in the Confederate Cemetery in town.  Later his body was sent home and buried at Alpine Church in Mentone. In 2015 his grave was marked with a metal funeral home marker. I did not find this marker in 2022. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for David Crockett Humphrey, 21st Georgia Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, August 12, 2025,  (http://www.fold3.com).
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/125393763/david_crockett-humphrey: accessed August 12, 2025), memorial page for David Crockett Humphrey (1839–10 Jul 1862), Find a Grave Memorial ID 125393763, citing Alpine Community Church Cemetery, Menlo, Chattooga County, Georgia, USA; Maintained by Larry A. McCoy (contributor 47342488).
• Georgia. State Division of Confederate Pensions and Records, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, compiled by Lillian Henderson (Hapeville, GA: Longino & Porter, 1959-1964), 2: 931.

Andrew Jackson Humphries joined his brothers in Company K of the 21st Georgia 1861. In July of 1863 on the retreat from Gettysburg he was captured in Williamsport, Virginia. On July 12 he arrived at Fort Delaware as prisoner of war.  On February 22, 1864 was released from prison and volunteered for service in the 1st Regiment of U.S. Volunteers.  This regiment was composed of Confederate prisoner This regiment was sent west to campaign against the Sioux on the Dakota Frontier. On a march in Kansas from Fort Leavenworth to  Fort Fletcher in November of 1865 Andrew deserted. There is no other record of him.  The cenotaph has a date of death as December 14, 1865. This date is the date of death for Andrew Jackson Humphrey buried in Grave #2490 in Section 5 of the Fort Smith Arkansas National Cemetery. This Andrew Jackson Humphrey was from Missouri. So, I do not know what happened to Andrew from Chattooga County. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Andrew Jackson Humphrey, 21st Georgia Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, August 12, 2025,  (http://www.fold3.com).

• Compiled Service Records of Former Confederate Soldiers who Served in the 1st Through 6th U.S. Volunteer Infantry Regiments, 1864-1866, 1861-1865 (https://www.fold3.com/publication/45/us-civil-war-service-records-cmsr-union-former-confederate-csa-1861-1865 : accessed Sep 1, 2025), entry for A.J. Humphreys, 1st U.S. Volunteers.
• U.S., Civil War Prisoner of War Records, 1861-1865 [database on-line]. Maryland: Point Lookout, Military Prison, v.. 374-375: Civilian passes, enlistment papers, hospital transfers, financial records, 1863-1865. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Entry for A.J. Humphrey, 21st Georgia Infantry, retrieved from Ancestry.com, 1 September 2025.  (http://www.ancestry.com)

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/143190247/andrew_james-humphrey: accessed September 1, 2025), memorial page for Pvt Andrew James Humphrey (1833–14 Dec 1865), Find a Grave Memorial ID 143190247, citing Fort Smith National Cemetery, Fort Smith, Sebastian County, Arkansas, USA; Maintained by Karen Winters (contributor 48123293).

• Michele T. Butts, "Trading Gray for Blue: Ex-Confederates Hold the Upper Missouri for the Union," Prologue Magazine 37, no.4, 2005. https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2005/winter/galvanized.html

For more on the Galvanized Yankees of the 1st U.S. Volunteers see the Michele Butt's "Trading Gray for Blue: Ex-Confederates Hold the Upper Missouri for the Union," published by the National Archives in 1905. 

Oak Bowery Baptist Cemetery

Location:

State Highway 144

Ohatchee, Calhoun County, Alabama

33.7694016, - 85.9839020

Find A Grave Cemetery ID:1180510

Date of Visit: July 15, 2020

Note: This cemetery is adjacent to Middle Cumberland Presbyterian Cemetery.

Jonas Henderson 

Co F 

42 Tenn Inf

CSA

Jasper N Wildman

Co E

10 Cav

CSA

Jasper Newton Wildman served in the 10th Confederate Calvary. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Jasper N. Wildman,10th Confederate Calvary, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, September 1, 2025,  (http://www.fold3.com).

Middle Cumberland Presbyterian Church Cemetery

Location:

State Highway 144

Ohatchee, Calhoun County, Alabama

33.770005 - 85.9335960

Find A Grave Cemetery ID:24413

Date of Visit: July 15, 2020

Note: This cemetery is adjacent to Oak Bowery Baptist Church Cemetery.

Lewis S Meharg

Capt Mehargs Co

Confederate States Army

Note: This is Lewis Spinks Meharg, father of Eli Dolphus Meharg. He apparently was a wealthy planter. He may have commanded a local defense unit. 

Elijah Meharg

Pvt Co A 50 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

1845       1886

Berry B. Nunnery

Pvt Co G  3 Ala Cav Regt

Confederate State Army

Nov 20, 1839      Jan 8, 1904

Pvt

William E Sisson

Co C

30 Ala Inf

CSA

Feb 8 1833    Jan 11, 1911

Eli Dolphus Mehard

Aug 22 1845. Feb 1 1931

Marked with Iron Southern cross of Honor. He served in Company A of the 26th Alabama.

• Ancestry.com. Alabama, U.S., Civil War Soldiers, 1860-1865 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.Original data: Civil War Soldiers. Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama.

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St. Andrews Episcopal Cemetery

Location:

County Road 12

Praireville, Hale County, Alabama

32.51030, -87.70140

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 25952

Date of Visit: July 13, 2019

Reuben Vaughn Kidd

Dec. 28, 1839

Sept. 19, 1863

Capt. Co A 4th Ala

CSA

Buried in

Chickamauga, Tenn

Reuben Vaughan Kidd was an unmarried 21-year-old merchant from Selma, AL, when he enlisted as a sergeant on 26 April 1861 in Company A, 4th Alabama Infantry. Company A was involved in many major battles while Kidd served - Bull Run, Seven Pines, Cold Harbor, Malvern Hill, Second Manassas, South Mountain, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, and Chickamauga. Kidd was elected First Lieutenant at the reorganization of April 1862. He was elected Captain on 1 November 1861, and led his Company at Gettysburg, PA. He was killed in action at Chickamauga, GA on 19 September 1863. His was buried on the battlefield. His family learned that he was disinterred (likely in Nov or Dec 1865) and thought he was likely reburied either at Chattanooga or Marietta. Family members were unable to find a record of his reburial

Kidd is the subject of his niece Alice V. D. Pierpont's 1947 book "Reuben Vaughan Kidd - Soldier of the Confederacy".

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18898979/reuben_vaughan-kidd: accessed February 2, 2025), memorial page for Capt Reuben Vaughan Kidd (28 Dec 1839–19 Sep 1863), Find a Grave Memorial ID 18898979, citing Saint Andrews Episcopal Cemetery, Prairieville, Hale County, Alabama, USA; Maintained by C Porter (contributor 48875452).

Joseph Todd

Collins

Born Va.

Mar. 24, 1836

Died

Nov. 17, 1922

Mem. Co B 9 Va Cav C.S.A. 1861-1865 

Wounded At Sailors Creek Apr 6, 1865.

In memory of 

Walter E. Winn

Who Died in consequence 

of a wound received 

Before Petersburg in

Defense of his country

The 12th of July 1864

Aged 30 years

Walter Winn attended University of Alabama and practiced law  in Uniontown and Demopolis Alabama before the war. He entered Confederate service as a Lieutenant in the Marengo Rifles in 1861. This unit became Company B of the 11th Alabama Infantry. In 1862 he became a Captain in the Adjutant Generals department of Wilcox's Brigade. He served as the Assistant General until his death in 1864. 

He was wounded at Frayser's Farm and at Gettysburg. He was wounded at Spotsylvania on May 12, 1864. He wounded at Petersburg on June 22 and died of wounds on July 12, 1864. 

• Alabama, Texas and Virginia, U.S., Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Entry for Walter Winn, 11^th Alabama Infantr, retrieved from Ancestry.com, 2 February 2025,  (http://www.ancestry.com).

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Walter Winn, 11th Alabama Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, 2 February 2025,  (http://www.fold3.com).

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8624146/walter_emmett-winn: accessed February 2, 2025), memorial page for Capt Walter Emmett Winn (4 Mar 1834–22 Jul 1864), Find a Grave Memorial ID 8624146, citing Saint Andrews Episcopal Cemetery, Prairieville, Hale County, Alabama, USA; Maintained by aphillcsa (contributor 46613068).

Fredk E. Dugger

 

Petersburg Va

July 17, 1839

Killed in action Atlanta

July 20, 1864

Enlisted April 14, 1862 at Shelby Springs, Alabama as a member of Captains Selden’s company of Gid Nelson’s Light Alabama Artillery.His brother  L. White Duggar (also buried here) was a lieutenant in Selden's Battery. Fredrick was present for all musters of 1862 and 1863 during which time he attained the rank of corporal.  

On July 20, 1864  Selden’s Battery was engaged in the Battle of Peachtree Creek during the Union siege of Atlanta. The battery was in position on the left of Pace’s Ferry road on an open field on the slope of a hill in the rear of Reynold’s Brigade of Walthall’s Division. During the battle the battery was hotly engaged and was constantly changing face to return fire. Lieutenant Colonel Lovelace’s report mentions the gallant behavior of Lieutenant Duggar, but not the death of Fredrick.  About 4 p.m. killed by a piece of shell while sighting a cannon, possible from the cannon misfiring.  

He was buried the next day in Atlanta and after the war his body was removed back home to Alabama to St. Andrew's Churchyard in Hale County.

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22019520/frederick_elijah-dugger: accessed July 19, 2025), memorial page for Frederick Elijah Dugger (17 Jul 1839–20 Jul 1864), Find a Grave Memorial ID 22019520, citing Saint Andrews Episcopal Cemetery, Prairieville, Hale County, Alabama, USA; Maintained by Rick OBrien (contributor 46911607).

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for F.E. Duggar, Gid Nelson Light Alabama Artillery, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, January 29, 2025,  (http://www.fold3.com).

• The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (128 vol., Washington: Printing Office, 1880-1901), Ser.1 Vol. 38, Part III, 970, Report of Leiutent Charles Lovelace, commanding Selden's Battery, September 15, 1864.

• Alabama Confederate  Images, "Sgt. Frederick Elijah Dugger, Selden's Alabama Battery Artillery." Facebook. July 8, 2018. https://www.facebook.com/profile/100057049256172/search/?q=Dugger