Lawrence Cemetery

Location:

State Road 337 (Menlo-LaFayette Road)

Menlo, Chattooga County, Georgia

34.4925003 -85.4738998

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 34934

Date of Visit: March 26, 2022

This cemetery is in a large pasture west of the highway. I could not secure permission to cross the fence line. This is a Find A Grave Survey.

There are 23 memorials on the Find a Grave memorial page. It has been 78 % photographed. 

John Milton Lawrence Cenotaph

In Memory of 

John Milton,

Eldest Son of 

Martin A. & Nancy E.

Lawrence,

Born Mar 29, 1837,

Lost in the War Between 

the States, 1861-1865

"This marble minstrels voiceless stone in deathless song shall tell, When many a vanished year has flown, the story where he fell."

John enlisted in Company E of the 37th Georgia Infantry on May 20, 1863 at Danielsville, Georgia. He spent time in to the Ocmulgee Hospital in Macon during September and October of 1863 with dropsy. On October 28, 1864 he was captured in Decatur, Alabama during Hoods push to attack the Union rear in Nashville. He was sent north to a Louisville, Kentucky and then to the military prison at Camp Douglas, Illinois. John M. Lawrence died at Camp Douglas on February 4, 1865 of pneumonia and was buried in grave #683, Block 2, Chicago City Cemetery.

John's father, mother, and two younger brothers are buried in the cemetery.  The brothers died in 1862. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for J.M. Lawrence, 37th Georgia Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, March 26, 2020,  (http://www.fold3.com).

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/90831593/john-milton-lawrence : accessed 20 May 2022), memorial page for John Milton Lawrence (28 Mar 1837–unknown), Find a Grave Memorial ID 90831593, citing Lawrence Cemetery, Menlo, Chattooga County, Georgia, USA ; Maintained by Nelda Reynolds (contributor 46942781) .

• Stewart Sifakis, Compendium of the Confederate Armies: South Carolina and Georgia. (Westminster, Maryland: Heritage Books, 2007), 247..