Peters Cove Cemetery

Location:

County Road 30

Jackson County, Alabama

34.66530  - 86.24030

Find A Grave Cemetery ID:25359

Date of Visit: February 3, 2025

Rollins Whittaker

Pvt Co D

49 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Aug 5 1818     Dec 11 1902

John B. Evans

Co C

8 Tenn Cav

CSA

John B. Evans served in the 4th Tennessee Calvary. This unit became the 8th Tennessee. He was wounded in April of 1863 and again at Chickamauga in September of 1863. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Jon. B Evans, 8 Tennessee Calvary (Smiths), Retrieved from at 3-Fold, March 4, 2024.,  (http://www.fold3.com).

• Alabama, Texas and Virginia, U.S., Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Entry for Jon.B Evans, 4th Tennessee retrieved from Ancestry.com, October 3, 2021,  (http://www.ancestry.com)

James M Peters

Co G

4 Regt

Ala Cav

CSA

Mar 31 1859

Dec 31, 1923

Reuben Chatmas Rousseau

Oct 7 1842     Sep 22 1904

Pvt Co A   25 Ala Cav

CSA

Husband of Lydia Ann Houck

Pvt

William M. Houck

Co A

25 Ala Cav

July 12 1845

Jun 28 1931

Houck and Rousseau were both members of a calvary unit raised in northern Alabama later in the war by Lemuel Green Mead.  This unit was known as the 25th Alabama Calvary Battalion.