Hopper Family Cemetery

Location:

US Highway 411

Gordon County, Georgia

N34 31.322 W084 42.503

FAG: 2449118

Date of Visit: May 26, 2021

In Memory of 

John Angel

Hopper

Died A CSA War

Capt. In Yazoo, Miss

Born 1825

Died 1863

John Angel Hooper was commissioned as Captain of Company E 8th Battalion of Infantry on September 23, 1861.  Company E was raised in Gordon Coyunty, Georgia and was known as Freeman’s Volunteers. Captain Hopper and the company served coastal defense duty until being sent west in May of 1863. He died of fever in Yazoo during the movement to relieve Vicksburg on June 11, 1863.  He is thought to have been buried somewhere in Mississippi. See his Find a Grave Memorial page for more details. 

• Find a Grave, database and images (www.findagrave.com/memorial/49493910/john-angel-hopper : accessed 27 May 2021), memorial page for Capt John Angel Hopper (1825–11 Jun 1863), Find a Grave Memorial ID 49493910, citing Hopper Family Cemetery, Ranger, Gordon County, Georgia, USA ; Maintained by Kathy Gatlin (contributor 46822976) .

• Lulie Pitts, History of Gordon County, Georgia, (Calhoun: The Press of Calhoun Times, 1934), 138.

Overton Cemetery

Location:

Oak Grove Road

Gordon County, Georgia

34.45666 -84.97386

FAG: 2449118

Date of Visit: March 17, 2018

Sgt

John C Overton

Co E

51 Regt

Ala Cav

May 10, 1847

Jan 28 1918

Laney Cemetery

AKA Moshat Cemetery

Location:

County Road 83

Cherokee County, Alabama

N 34° 07.173   W085° 37.073

Date of Visit: May 11, 2021

Calvin H. Barron

Co B

3 Ga Cav

CSA

Calvin J Edgens

Serg

Co D

1 SC Inf

Confederate States Army

Calvin had a head stone with the following inscriptions: “Fired the first shot at Ft. Sumpter”.  A Cherokee County Chamber of Commerce publication states that he is alleged to have been in a battery that firsd on Fort Sumter.  

The following is found at his Find A Grave Memorial:

Fought for the CSA during the Civil War. 1st SC infantry (regulars)Butlers - also known as the Third SC Heavy Artillery. Enlisted in Spartanburg, SC and served on South Carolina coastal defense through most of the war. Fought at the Battle of Bentonville, NC a few weeks before the end of hostilities.

Married Harriett Brannon after the war and moved towards Rome, Georgia which was under a smallpox quarantine at the time. Went around Rome and settled in Cherokee County, Alabama and became a farmer. Allegedly was a member of the battery that fired the first shot on Ft. Sumter (Cherokee County Historical Society)

• Find a Grave, database and images (www.findagrave.com/memorial/18558998/george-jefferson-edgins : accessed 13 May 2021), memorial page for George Jefferson Edgins (30 Oct 1838–24 Jan 1890), Find a Grave Memorial ID 18558998, citing Laney Cemetery, Cherokee County, Alabama, USA ; Maintained by glockem (contributor 46898841) .

Socopatoy Cemetery

Location:

Alabama Highway 9

Coosa County, Alabama

N 32° 58.900   W086° 04.081

FAG: 26361

Date of Visit: February 22, 2021

John D Shelton

Pvt Co B 34 Regt Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Oct 31 1828      Nov 19 1905

W.W. Selman

Capt  Co H 14 Regt Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Nov 13 1816.     Jun 6 1875

Albert Thomas

Pvt Co C 53 Ala Cav

Confederate States Army

Jan 7 1822    Jun 12 1906

George F Hester

Co D

17 Ala Inf

CSA

Abram Hester

Serg Co D 17 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Feb 4 1811        May 8 1884

Thomas Smith

Pvt Co E 12 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Aug 1 1813       Dec 13 1885

Howell Rose Robbin

Co D   17 Regt Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Aug 1 1845      Apr 30 1923

Thomas H Mitchell

Pvt Co B 12 Regt Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Jan 8 1840      Feb 28 1924

Lucius A Hawes

Pvt Co F 1 Batt Ala Arty

Confederate States Army

Aug 19 1837    Nov 6 1864

Enlisted in in Company F of the artillery battalion Wetumpka, Alabama  in 1861. Throughout the war he served in Company F and A. In April of 1864 the 1st Battalion of Artillery was stationed at Fort Morgan. On August 23, 1864 he was  captured  at Fort Morgan. He was sent to New Orleans where he spent time in hospital with dysentery before being and then to Elmira, New York as a prisoner of war. He died of pneumonia on November 10, 1864 and was buried in Grave 811. The marker at Socopatoy is a cenotaph. He is still buried in New York. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for L.A. Hawes, 1st Battalion of Alabama Artillery. Retrieved from at 3-Fold May 9, 20231 (http://www.fold3.com).

• Joyce M. Tice, “Civil War Prison Camp, Elmira, Chemung County, New York,” Tri-Counties Genealogy & History, accessed May 9, 2021, https://www.joycetice.com/cemc/prisoneh.htm

New River Baptist Church Cemetery

AKA: Killingsworth Family Cemetery

Location:

County Road 44

Fayette County, Alabama

N 33° 50.092   W087° 39.458

Date of Visit: May 1, 2021

J.M. Wakefield

Co K

4 Ala Cav

CSA

Apr 12 1846

Aug 8 1920

New River Church of Christ Graveyard

Location:

County Road 49

Hubbertville, Fayette County, Alabama

N 33° 45.248   W087° 41.618

FAG: 22463

Date of Visit: May 1, 2021

Hiram Hyde

Co F

38 Ala Inf

CSA