Liberty Cemetery

Location:

County Road 72

Marion County, Alabama

N 33° 57.696   W087° 43.338

FAG: 23974

Date of Visit: July 31, 2021

James F. Harbin

Aug 30, 1836

Sept 26, 1903

James T. Hardin has a non-military headstone. His grave was marked with a Confederate flag on July 31, 2021. 

His wife Margaret E. Harbin applied for a military pension in 1904. She stated that he served in Company D of the 14th Regiment on the pension application. This is Company D of the 14th Georgia Infantry Regiment. James and Margaret moved from Cherokee County, Georgia to Marion County between 1870 and 1880. 

James enlisted in Company D in Calhoun, Georgia on August 27, 1862. In January of 1863 a medical examining board in Lynchburg, Virginia declared James incapable of performing the duties of a soldier due to a double inguinal hernia. They stated that he had been unfit for duty sixty days out of the past two months. 

• Ancestry.com. Alabama, Texas and Virginia, U.S., Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Citing Alabama Department of Archives and History; Montgomery, Alabama; Confederate Pension Applications, 1880-1940; Collection #: Microfilm in the Research Room; Roll Description: Hannah, A. H. - Hardwick, Wm. Henry
• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for James F. Harbin, 14th Georgia Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, August 7, 2021,  (http://www.fold3.com).
• 1870 U.S. Census, Cherokee County, Georgia population schedule, Bells, 817th District, p. 181 (stamped), dwelling 228, family 228, James Harbin, digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com: 7 August 2021); citing NARA microfilm publication M593, roll 143.
• 1880 U.S. Census, population schedule, Monroe County, Mississippi, Beat #10, ED 244, p.287 (stamped), family 3; dwelling 3, James F. Harbin; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : 7 August 2021); citing NARA microfilm publication T9, roll 23.

Thomas J. Beasley

1937 -1920

Thomas J. Beasley has a non-military headstone. His grave was marked with a Confederate flag on July 31, 2021. 

In 1913 the State of Alabama Pension Bureau notified Thomas that he did not appear on any rolls of the 4th Alabama Calvary. In 1914 E.F. Tucker signed an affidavit stating that Thomas Beasley was a member of Company K of the 4th Alabama Calvary for two years. In 1915 and 1916 Thomas received U.S. Confederate pension payments. 

• Ancestry.com. Alabama, U.S., Confederate Pension and Service Records, 1862-1947 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.  Original data: Alabama Confederate Pension Applications and Service Records, 1865-1940. Montgomery, Alabama: Alabama Department of Archives and History. 

• Ancestry.com. Alabama, Texas and Virginia, U.S., Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Citing Alabama Department of Archives and History; Montgomery, Alabama; Confederate Pension Applications, 1880-1940; Collection #: Microfilm in the Research Room; Roll Description: Beasley, F.B. – Bell, F.M.