New Bethel Cemetery

Location:

Reeceburg Relay Road

Floyd County, Georgia

N 34° 08.417   W085° 10.506

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 35729

Date of Visit: March 30, 2013

Pvt

William P. Gossett

Co B  21 Ga Inf

CSA

Dec 14 1842

Sep 5 1878

Pvt

Thomas L Gossett

Co G   22 Ga Inf

CSA

Nov 4 1836

Aug 18 1886

HC Meroney

Confederate Soldier

This may be the gravestone of Hugh C. Meroney, son of Benjamin Davis Meroney and Mary Ann Nolen of Floyd County. He is said that he died in a Lynchburg, Virginia hospital on June 27, 1862. There are no other records of Hugh. His father did serve in the 1st Georgia Calvary. 

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/90710455/h-c-meroney : accessed 01 June 2022), memorial page for H. C. Meroney (unknown–unknown), Find a Grave Memorial ID 90710455, citing New Bethel Cemetery, Floyd County, Georgia, USA ; Maintained by James M Trapp (contributor 47687441) .
• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for B.D. meroney, 1st Georgia Calvary,  Retrieved from at 3-Fold, June 1, 2022,  (http://www.fold3.com).
• 1860 U.S. Census, Floyd County, Georgia, Population Schedule, Census Place: Barker’s District, , p.232, dwelling 692, Benjamin Meroney: digital images, Ancestry (http://ancestry.com:accessed 01 June 2022),  NARA Roll M653_121, Family History Library Film: 803121.

William Pickney Caldwell

1835 – August 20 1876

POW   Wounded

This tombstone is not an US Government style monument. William Pickney Caldwell joined Company C of the 40th Georgia in June of 1862.  In the summer of 1863 Caldwell was captured at Champion Hill near Vicksburg. In July he was at Fort Delaware prisoner of war camp in Delaware. He was paroled and exchanged. He spent some days spending time in Chimborazo Hospital Number 2 for an ankle injury. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for W.P. Caldwell, 40th Georgia Infantry,  Retrieved from at 3-Fold, June 1, 2022,  (http://www.fold3.com).