Location:
Bartow County Garbage Receiving Facility
Kingston, Bartow County, Georgia
N 34° 17.377 W084° 56.539
Original Visit: 9/11/2010
Pvt
Thaddeus Clemmons
Co K
19 Ga Inf
CSA
1842
1863
Thaddeus was a son of Henry Augustus Clemmons of Kingston, Georgia. He had a brother, Thomas A or T.A. that lost a leg at Antietam and was captured and paroled. He enlisted in Company K, Georgia 19th Infantry Regiment on 11 Jun 1861.
He was was admitted to the General Hospital at Farmville, Virginia with diarrhea on Sept 5, 1862. On October 13 he was furloughed for 60 days. The final record is that he died on October 6, 1863 at home in Georgia.
In 1938 an application was made for a headstone for Thaddeus Clemmons, a private in Co. I 18th Georgia who died October 6, 1863. It was to be placed at Connesena Cemetery.
How It Got to Hall Station Road:
According to his Find A Grave Memorial: Inside of fence at dump station on Hall Station Rd. This marker was placed by the Stiles/Akin Camp #670 Sons of Confederate Veterans. On this site there was a marker reported to Robert Crowe camp commander by a railroad worker. Robert kept note of the location when it was discovered the original marker was removed and the camp requested a marker be replaced.
