Garden of Memories Cemetery (AKA Ragland Methodist Church Cemetery)

Location:

Church Street

Ragland, St. Clair County, Alabama

N 33° 44.3962   W086° 09.3655

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 22951

Date of Visit: April 21, 2024

Pvt

Oakley

Brown

Co D

21 Ala Inf

CSA

Apr 20 1824   May 26 1901

William T. Morris

Pvt Co F

Young's Btry Ga Arty

Confederate States Army

Oct 16 1846.   Apr 18, 1926

I.M. Sims

Reg 42 Co G CSA

This is not a VA Confederate tombstone. Ignatious Sims was a member of Company G of the 42nd Alabama Infantry. He was captured and paroled twice during the war. Likely at Corinth and at Vicksburg. He served to the end of the war.

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Ignatious Sims, 42nd^h Alabama Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, June 23, 2024,  (http://www.fold3.com).

Box Cemetery

Location:

Old Nashville Road

Ragland, St.Clair County, Alabama

N 33° 44.5501'   W086° 10.3216'

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 21743

Date of Visit: April 21, 2024

Pvt

J.B. Ingram

Co D

51 Ala Inf

CSA

Aug 25, 1833

Henry Hudson Stokes

Co G

4 SC Regt

CSA

Dec 13 1840

Feb 5 1926

FM Higginbotham

Co D

42 Ala Ind

CSA

Thomas Higginbothum

Co D

25 Ala

CSA

John W Davis

Co C

18 Ala Inf

CSA

Mar 12 1843  Oct 2 1906

John Randall Ramsey

Co K

18 Ga Inf

CSA

Frank Harrison

Co A

51 Ala Cav

CSA

July 17 1844

Apr 17 1921

Samuel S. Higginbothum - CSA Flag

1841 - 1911 

Samuel was a member of Company E of the 51st Alabama Calvary (Partisan Rangers).

• Alabama, Texas and Virginia, U.S., Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Entry for S.S. Higginbothum 51st Alabama Calvary, retrieved from Ancestry.com, June 23, 20241,  (http://www.ancestry.com)

James B. Henderson - CSA Flag

1829-1898

Henderson was a member of Company D of the 10th Alabama Infantry. He enlisted in 1861 and was elected 2nd lieutenant. Over the course of the war he spent several stretches of time sick in hospitals. He also was detailed as a hospital steward in Richmond at one time. He was palled as a private in Virginia in 1865.

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for James B. Henderson, 10th Alabama Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, June 233, 2024,  (http://www.fold3.com).

Goggin Cemetery

Location:

County Road 33

Marion County, Alabama

34° 12.684'N   82° 6.366W

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 23039

Date of Visit: April 19, 2024

Albert T. Goggin

Born 

July 8, 1838

Died

Sept. 3, 1906

Albert enlisted in Company K of the 42nd Alabama Infantry in Aberdeen, Mississippi on May 13, 1862.  After the Battle of Corinth he was reported as missing. He was paroled on October 13 by Union troops in Bolivar, Tennessee. No other records were found.

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Albert T. Goggan, 42nd Alabama Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, May 23, 2024,  (http://www.fold3.com).

Antioch Cemetery

Location:

County Road 20

Blount County, Alabama

N 33° 56.707   W086° 23.983

FAG: 1995274

Date of Visit: September 15, 2012

John Wadsworth 

Alabama

Pvt Co F 42 Regt Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Jun 10 1845    Dec 22 1929

John C Reneau

Alabama

Pvt Co I  49 Regt Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

April 21 1836  April 3 1910

Solomon Cornelieus

Sgt  Co I 49 Regt Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

1836   1910

Elijah Morton

Pvt. Co I 49th Regt Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

1836    1898

Sidney F Fulenwider

Pvt Co I    19 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Dec 29 1832    Mar 6 1906

E.A. Thornhill

Pvt Co I. 16 Regt Ga Inf

Confederate States Army

Feb 15 1843   Nov 30 1908

Thomas Cornelius

Pvt  Co I 49th Regt Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

1838     1909

William E Reneau

2D Lt 12 Tenn Calvary

Confederate States Army

1838   1865

William Edward Reneau appears to have transferred from a Mississippi regiment in 1862 to the 1st Tennessee Calvary which became the 12th Tennessee Cavalry, known as Green’s Calvary, in 1863. William was appointed 2nd Lieutenant in Company F on February 13, 1863.  Lieutenant Reneau on the staff of R.V. Richardson in Forrest’s Calvary as Assistant Inspector General. He was still doing business of the regiment as late as Jun of 1864 when he wrote a letter to a Colonel Johnson. His date of death is not clear. It has been reported that he died in the Battle of Shelbyville in 1863 and his military marker’s year of death is 1865. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for William E. Reneau, 17th Mississippi Infantry and 12th Tennessee Calvary, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, October 3, 2021,  (http://www.fold3.com).
• Sterling, Robin Blount County Confederate Soldiers Volume 3: Miscellaneous (Lula Publishers, 2013), 354. 

Emmaus Cemetery

Location:

Emmaus Road

Lamar County, Alabama

33.8078003  -88.0916977

FAG 22682

Date of Visit: December 23, 2007

William R. Langley

Nelson’s 

Ala Lt Arty

CSA

Oct 1 1841     

March 10, 1892

Francis M Pennington

Co I 

43 Ala Inf

CSA

Born 1837    

Died 1900

F A Malloy

Co F 

42 Ala Inf

CSA

Geo W Shackleford

Co I 

43 Ala Inf

CSA

Henry C Bickerstaff

Co A

10th Regt

Ala Inf

CSA

Oct 17, 1908

Oliver P Robertson

Co K

60 Ga Inf

CSA

John Morris

Co K

8 Ala Inf

CSA

Captain A.J. Hamilton Memorial Cemetery/ Hamilton City Cemetery

Location:

2^nd Street Northwest

Hamilton, Marion County, Alabama

N 34° 08.622     W087° 59.399

Find a Grave Cemetery: 23223

Date of Visit: September 17, 2017

Thomas W Carpenter

Pvt Co K  42 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Apr 23 1932.  Feb 8 1889

Archibald M Mosley

Co G

16 Ala Inf

CSA

K.E.F. McKenzie

1839-1921

K.E.F McKenzie, Civil War, Veteran Lee’s

 Second Army of Tennessee, Co. K 16 Ala.  Hardees Corps,

Clayburn’s Division, Lowery’s Brigade, 1861-1865

His name was Kenneth Felix Ebenezer McKenzie.

• Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 22 February 2020), memorial page for Kenneth Felix Ebenezer McKenzie (27 Jul 1839–2 Jun 1921), Find A Grave Memorial no. 24707814, citing Hamilton City Cemetery, Hamilton, Marion County, Alabama, USA ; Maintained by 4losthistory (contributor 46983562) .

Capt.

A.J. Hamilton

December 7, 1838.  Jan 9, 1901

Inscription:

Born and Reared in

Marion Co. Ala. Enlisted

in Company G 16th Ala

Infantry in 1861. Four

months later assisted in

organizing Co. F 5th Miss

Cavalry and elected 3^rd

Lieut. And wounded at

Thompson’s Station while leading his Co. Later he

raised a Co in Marion

County, Ala. Of which he

was made Capt which

 became Co F 7 Ala Reg.

This Co he led until the

close of war. Paroled at

Decatur returned to

Marion Co. Ala and

settled for life.

Kingsville Cemetery

Location:

US Highway 17 19

Lamar County, Alabama

N 34° 03.178     W088° 08.521

Find a Grave: 832751

Date of Visit: December 24, 2011

FM Coker

Co L

43 Miss Inf

CSA

Feb 27 1846     Feb 14 1931

Alex B. Nelson

Pvt G Co

16 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Oct 18 1842       Jun 8 1911

Lafayette Smith

Co K

42 Ala Inf

CSA

Smyrna United Methodist Church Cemetery

Location:

Alabama State Highway 19

Barnesville, Marion County, Alabama

N 34° 08.486     W088° 05.885

Find a Grave: 26357

Date of Visit: December 24, 2011

Benjamin F Todd

Co G

6 Ala Cav

CSA

1824   1907

Pvt

Jesse H Hanson

Co B 26 Ala Inf

CSA

Jun 6 1841

Sep 30 1910

Berry M Cantrell

Pvt Co H 26 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Oct 17 1839.   Mar 27 1925

Elijah Asbury Brown

Pvt K Co

46 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Feb 14 1833     Dec 26 1895

Cary M Goggans

Pvt Co K.   42 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Jan 11 1842    Mar 1 1914

Richard Dupree

Co K

42 Ala Inf

CSA

Ashridge Methodist Church Cemetery

Location:

State Road 195 

Haleyville, Winston County, Alabama

N 34° 13.988     W087° 28.092

Find a Grave: 2324646

Date of Visit: December 20, 2011

William A Brown

Co B

42 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

JM Washburn

Co H

1 Ala

Conscripts

Confederate States Army

Nov 15 1829

Dec 30 1907

Pvt

Benjamin Baz Horton

Co A

27 Ala Cav

CSA

Sept 1 1845

Jun 21 1917

Center United Methodist Church Cemetery

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Location:

County Road 36

Marion  County, Alabama

N 34° 03.313     W087° 48.874

Find a Grave: 22041

Date of Visit: December 12, 2011

Thomas J. Berryhill

Mississippi

Pvt Co K 22 Miss Inf Regt

Civil War

Dec 29, 1839.  July 20, 1864

Berryhill enlisted in Vicksburg in 1862. His name appears on muster rolls in 1862, 1863, and 1864. His last record is for the March and April muster. The 22^nd Mississippi was engaged on July 20, 1864 at Battle of Peachtree Creek and suffered 21 killed.

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia. Original data from: The National Archives, Retrieved from at October 30, 2019. (http://www.fold3.com)
• National Park Service, Soldier and Sailor’s Database, 22^nd Mississippi Infantry, https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-battle-units-detail.htm?battleUnitCode=CMS0022RI, acced October 30, 2019.

Corp

William J. Fowler

Co D

56 Ga Inf

Confederate States Army

April 8 1844

Feb 7 1932

John M. Burleson

Co K

5 Ala Cav

Confederate States Army

J.K. Wilson

Co D

42 Ala Regt.

CSA

Shadrick S. Rawls

Pvt Co K 19 Ala Infantry

Confederate States Army

Dec 25 1842.     July 10, 1917

Elisha F Franks

Co F

2 Bn Ala Lt Atry

Confederate States Army

Mar 19 1945

Jan 20 1936

William A Shirley

Co D

41 Ala Inf

CSA

April 14 1844

July 30, 1920

BC Flippo

Co K

5 Ala Cav

Confederate States Army

Joseph Flippo

Co H

26 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Serg

William J Martin

Co H

26^th Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Jul 20 1828

Dec 20 1895

William J Cochran

Co A

10 Conf Cav

Confederate States Army