Shiloh Baptist Church

Location:

Bailey Road

Esom Hill, Polk County, Georgia

N 33° 56.810   W085° 21.475

FAG: 201814

Date of Visit: September 27, 2021

Jeremiah M Isbell

Pvt Co C Floyd Legion

Confederate States Army

Jan 17 1829   Apr 22 1913

David Sylvester Berry

Pvt Inf Regt

Phillips Legion Ga Vols

Confederate States Army

Jun 7 1825     Jan 6 1889

Andrew J Eison

Co A.  38 Ga Inf

Confederate States Army

1832      1886

William J Garner

Co F

40 Ga Inf

CSA

From Williams Find a Grave Memorial: An "Application for Headstone" dated 1/27/1933, in the Military Archives listing William J Garner of Co. K, 40th Regt GA Inf., buried at Cedartown, Polk County. His birth was listed as 2/22/1839 and his death date as 5/24/1864. Find-a-Grave index # 15012210.

There is a record of a W.J. Garner who enlisted at Buchanan, Georgia in 1862. He was a member of Company K of the 40th Georgia. He was captured at Vicksburg and paroled in 1863. A  W.J.  Garner was paroled in North Carolina in 1865. 

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15012210/william-jackson-garner : accessed 12 October 2021), memorial page for William Jackson Garner (22 Feb 1839–24 May 1864), Find a Grave Memorial ID 15012210, citing Shiloh Baptist Church Cemetery, Esom Hill, Polk County, Georgia, USA ; Maintained by Evening Blues (contributor 46587085) .

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for William J. Garner , 40th Georgia Alabama Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, October 12, 2021,  (http://www.fold3.com).