Wear Family Cemetery

Location:

Old Springville Road

Jefferson County, Alabama

N 33° 42.578   W086° 35.154

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 2225727

Date of Visit: August 13, 2022

David H Wear

Mar 30 1848

Oct 9 1918

Omelia C Wear

May 27 1845

Apr 13 1904

David is marked with a new Confederate flag. David and his wife Omelia received a Confederate pension for his service. He enlisted in 1865 and served for six weeks in Company A 7th Alabama Cavalry. 

• Alabama, Texas and Virginia, U.S., Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Entry for David H Wear, 7th Alabama Cavalry, retrieved from Ancestry.com, August 21, 2022,  (http://www.ancestry.com)

Andrew B. 

Wear

Born

Apr. 19, 1833

Died

Jan. 26, 1916

Andrew is marked with a Confederate flag. I believe that this is Corporal A.B. Ware of Company C, 58th Alabama Infantry. He enlisted in Jefferson County, Alabama in 1861. He was wounded severely in the leg at Chickamauga in 1863. His name appears on a roll of prisoners of war surrendered at Citronelle 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 Andrew B. Wear, 58th Alabama Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, August 21, 2022,  (http://www.fold3.com).

Clay United Methodist Cemetery

Location:

Old Springville Road

Pinson, Jefferson County, Alabama

N 33° 59.820   W087° 34.846

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 1236357

Date of Visit: May 1, 2022

Jeremiah J. Price

Truss’ Co Barbiere’s Bn

Ala Calvary

July 1827    Dec 1864

From his Find a Grave Memorial: 

It was in defense of his family, country, and friends that Jesse enlisted on September 23, 1863 in Elyton as a Private in Captain Thomas K. Truss' Company, which was later assigned to Barbiere's Cavalry Battalion in October 1864, and died in his final battle from an illness near Selma on December 1, 1864 at the age of thirty seven. He was brought home to be laid to rest and was survived his wife, parents, eight brothers, four sisters, and five children : James Washington Price, Thomas Coger Price, Silona Jane Price, George Dewey Price , and Francis Price. - written by: Robert Debter, and spoken at his Grave Marking Ceremony

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/226633745/jeremiah-jesse-price : accessed 31 May 2022), memorial page for PVT Jeremiah Jesse Price (Jul 1827–Dec 1864), Find a Grave Memorial ID 226633745, citing Clay United Methodist Church Cemetery, Pinson, Jefferson County, Alabama, USA ; Maintained by Janice Price (contributor 48762006) .

GB Huddleston

Co H

58 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

May 27 1835 Jan 12 1905

Uriah William Crosby

Pvt Co H 63 Regt Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Dec 18 1846     Dec 19 1918

Greenwood Baptist Church Cemetery

Location:

Little Wills Valley Road

Keener, Etowah County, Alabama

N 34° 10.319   W085° 56.596

FAG: 23141

Date of Visit: October 15, 2013

Near the edge of the cemetery there are military markers for five soldiers: Robert F. Tabor, William Bethel Tabor, James Richard Crump, Wesley A. Keener, and Reuben Hammett. These are cenotaphs for men buried in northern Alabama and Virginia. War was hard for families of the Duck Springs area of DeKalb County.  These men and their families were kin and neighbors. 

Pvt

Reuben Hamett

Co G

49 Ala Inf

CSA

1824

1862

Pvt 

Wesley A Keener

Co G 

49 Ala Inf

CSA

1843

1862

Pvt

Robert F Tabor

Co I 

10 Ala Inf

CSA

1843

1862

Pvt 

William Bethel Tabor

Co I 

10 Ala Inf

CSA

1840

1861

Pvt

James Richard Crump

Co I 

10 Ala Inf

CSA

1841

1863

Wesley Keener enlisted in Captain J. Edward’s Company February 10, 1862. He was the son of Lavinia Hamitt who was married to Reuben Hamett. Wesley’s father-in-laww Rueben joined the same company on February 25, 1862.  Reuben’s brother Jesse Hamett was already a member of Captain Edwards company when Reuben and Wesley enlisted. 

In June of 1862, T.L. Battles and John Thomas signed affidavits attesting to Wesley and Reuban Hamitt joining Company G of the 31st Alabama.  According a card in Jesse’s records Captain Edward’s the 49th Regiment of Alabama Infantry, was successively designated as the 53rd (Hale’s) Alabama Infantry, 31st Regiment (Edward’s) and finally the 49th Alabama.

Wesley and Reuben both died in the hospital in Huntsville, Alabama. Reuben died on March 10, 1862 and Wesley died March 13, 1862. 

Jesse’s Hamett’s wife Emma signed an affidavit on May 16, 1862 stating that Jesse died of pneumonia in route home on March 10, 1862. His burial place is not known however,  there is a recent Confederate military marker at Maple Hill Cemetery in Huntsville. There are there are 187 unknown Confederate soldiers buried in this cemetery. My thoughts are that Wesley and Reuban are likely buried here also. 

On Wesley’s Find A Grave memorial page Charlie Hammett explains that these three men died of measles that was rampant in the camps in Nashville. The 49th was organized in Nashville in January of 1862.

William Bethel Tabor and Robert F. Tabor were sons of John Francis Tabor and Agnes Crump. Bethel enlisted in Company I of the 10th Alabama in Montgomery on June 4, 1861. Shortly afterwards the regiment was sent to Virginia where it was brigaded under General E.K. Smith with the 9th and 11th Alabama and the 19th Mississippi near Manassas and Centerville.  In September Bethel was sick with Febris Typhoides (Typhoid Fever). He died September 5 in Camp near Bristow Station.  His burial spot is not known. 

After his brother died in service of the Confederacy 18 year old Robert F. Tabor enlisted in Company I in the spring of 1862 in Gadsden. After reporting to camp in Virginia he became sick and was admitted to Chimborazo Hospital #3 in Richmond. He died on May 8, 1862. John is buried in Sec D, Row 34, Grave 5 in Oakwood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia. 

James Crump enlisted in Gadsden by Captain A.A. Hughes on March 1, 1862. In April he was present for the siege of Yorktown. On May 4, 1862 he was admitted to Chimborazo Hospital #2 with rubeola (measles). He was transferred supposedly to another hospital in Lynchburg on May 9. In late August he was admitted to Chimborazo Hospital No. 11 in Richmond with Cholera Morbus. On September 16 he was sent to a Huguenot Springs Hospital in Powhatan County, Virginia. He remained healthy until wounded in battle at Salem Church where the regiment lost over a fourth of it’s strength. In June he was admitted to 2nd Alabama Hospital in Richmond and he died June 28, 1863. He is buried in Section A, Row J, Grave 124 of Oakwood Cemetery.

Ancestry.com. Alabama, U.S., Civil War Soldiers, 1860-1865 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Citing Historical Record Roll data to Jan 1, 1865

, Civil War Soldiers. Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama.

Brewer, Willis. 1962. Brief Historical Sketches of Military Organizations Raised In Alabama During the Civil War : reproduced from Willis Brewer's Alabama: her history, resources, war record, and public men, from 1540 to 1872 (1872) Montgomery, Alabama: Alabama Civil War Centennial Commission. Google Play https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=QogshH4pd50C&pg=GBS.PP4.

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Reuben Hamett, 49th Alabama Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, December 16, 2021,  (http://www.fold3.com).
• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Wesley A. Keener, 49th Alabama Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, December 16, 2021,  (http://www.fold3.com).
• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Jesse Hammet,  49th Alabama Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, December 16, 2021,  (http://www.fold3.com).
• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for William B. Tabor, 10th Alabama Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, December 16, 2021,  (http://www.fold3.com).
• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Robert F. Tabor, 10th Alabama Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, December 16, 2021,  (http://www.fold3.com).
• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for James R. Crump, 10th Alabama Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, December 16, 2021,  (http://www.fold3.com).
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/61656180/jesse-m-hammett : accessed 16 December 2021), memorial page for Pvt Jesse M Hammett (1821–10 Mar 1862), Find a Grave Memorial ID 61656180, citing Maple Hill Cemetery, Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama, USA ; Maintained by Nancy E. Collins (contributor 47113696) .
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23397061/wesley-a-keener : accessed 16 December 2021), memorial page for Pvt Wesley A. Keener (1843–1862), Find a Grave Memorial ID 23397061, citing Greenwood Baptist Church Cemetery, Keener, Etowah County, Alabama, USA ; Maintained by . (contributor 46544255) .
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9926274/robert-f-tabor : accessed 16 December 2021), memorial page for PVT Robert F. Tabor (1843–7 Jun 1862), Find a Grave Memorial ID 9926274, citing Oakwood Cemetery, Richmond, Richmond City, Virginia, USA ; Maintained by Scott Hutchison (contributor 46635174) .
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/37887615/william-bethel-tabor : accessed 16 December 2021), memorial page for Pvt William Bethel Tabor (1840–1861), Find a Grave Memorial ID 37887615, citing Greenwood Baptist Church Cemetery, Keener, Etowah County, Alabama, USA ; Maintained by ausomeair (contributor 46934731) .
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/37887586/robert-f-tabor : accessed 16 December 2021), memorial page for Pvt Robert F Tabor (1843–1863), Find a Grave Memorial ID 37887586, citing Greenwood Baptist Church Cemetery, Keener, Etowah County, Alabama, USA ; Maintained by ausomeair (contributor 46934731) .
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9740328/james-r-crump : accessed 16 December 2021), memorial page for Pvt James R. Crump (1840–28 Jun 1863), Find a Grave Memorial ID 9740328, citing Oakwood Cemetery, Richmond, Richmond City, Virginia, USA ; Maintained by Scott Hutchison (contributor 46635174) .
• 1860 U.S. Census, DeKalb County, Alabama, Population Schedule, Census Place: District 3, Post Office: Duck Springs, p.224, dwelling 234, family 200, Memory Crump: digital images, Ancestry (http://ancestry.com:accessed 16 December 2021),  NARA Roll M653_9, Family History Library Film: 803009.
• 1860 U.S. Census, DeKalb County, Alabama, Population Schedule, Census Place: District 3, Post Office: Duck Springs, p.224, dwelling 233, family 199, John Tabor: digital images, Ancestry (http://ancestry.com:accessed 16 December 2021),  NARA Roll M653_9, Family History Library Film: 803009.
• 1860 U.S. Census, DeKalb County, Alabama, Population Schedule, Census Place: District 3, Post Office: Duck Springs, p.205, dwelling 103, family 90, Reuben Hammet: digital images, Ancestry (http://ancestry.com:accessed 16 December 2021),  NARA Roll M653_9, Family History Library Film: 803009.
• 1860 U.S. Census, DeKalb County, Alabama, Population Schedule, Census Place: District 3, Post Office: Duck Springs, p.205, dwelling 104, family 91, William Edwards: digital images, Ancestry (http://ancestry.com:accessed 16 December 2021),  NARA Roll M653_9, Family History Library Film: 803009.

Pvt

Noah Alverson

Co D

58 Ala Inf

CSA

1845

1925

John D Alverson

Pvt Co I 18 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

1835    1925

John B. Rogers

Pvt Co I 9 Regt 7 Ala Cav

Confederate States Army

Dec 10 1845      Feb 3 1892

John Bell Rogers enlisted I. Captain A. Lea’s Company in Thomason’s Battalion of Alabama Calvary on August 30, 1862 in Head Springs, Alabama. In April of 1863 Thomason Battalion was consolidated with Malone Battalion of Calvary to form the 7th Alabama Calvary and the company became Company I of the regiment. Subsequently the 7th became the 9th Alabama Calvary (Malones).  Thus the reason for the “Co. I 9 Regiment 7 Ala Cav” inscription. 

In Chattanooga on November 27, 1862 Rogers was furloughed sick for 40 days. Sometime in early December of 1863 John B. Rogers crossed over to Union lines at Nashville, took the oath of allegiances at the military prison in Louisville, Kentucky. He was sent north of the Ohio River. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for John B. Rogers, 9th  Alabama Calvary (Malones), Retrieved from at 3-Fold, December 16, 2021,  (http://www.fold3.com).

AS Hairsten

Co G

44 Ga Inf

CSA

BC Campbell

Pvt Co K 3 Conf Cav

Confederate States Army

Nov 20 1843   Sep 15 1905

Thomas B Knight

Co F

35 Ga Inf

CSA

Mar 25 1839

Oct 2 1918

Francis M Taylor

Pvt. Co I 

3 Conf Cav

Confederate States Army

Aug 24 1844      Oct 25 1918

Jacob Seaborn Keener

Pvt Co G 49 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

May 31 1842     Mar 18 1908

David Washington Keener

Pvt. Co I 

3 Conf Cav

Confederate States Army

Oct 20 1825      Nov 2 1910

James P  Keener

Pvt Co I   3 Conf Cav

Confederate States Army

Dec 10 1844    Sep 24 1907

Pvt 

Gabriel Hill

Co B 11Ala Inf

CSA

1836      1899

Pvt

James M Patrick

Co I

10 Ala Inf

CSA

1841       1888

Pvt James F. Bullard

Co I

10 Ala Inf

CSA

1843

1863

Private Bullard enlisted in Captain Abner Hughes' DeKalb County company in Gadsden on March 14, 1862 at age 19. He was present from the siege on Yorktown to the Battle of Chancellorsville on May 2, 1863. He was killed in battle at the Battle of Salem Church near Fredericksburg on May 3, 1863.  The regiment lost 120 killed or wounded of 400 men taken into battle. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for James F.W. Bullard, 10th Alabama Infantry and 19th Alabama Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, December 16, 2021,  (http://www.fold3.com).
• Ancestry.com. Alabama, U.S., Civil War Soldiers, 1860-1865 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Citing Historical Record Roll data to Jan 1, 1865 Civil War Soldiers. Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama.
• Brewer, Willis. 1962. Brief Historical Sketches of Military Organizations Raised In Alabama During the Civil War : reproduced from Willis Brewer's Alabama: her history, resources, war record, and public men, from 1540 to 1872 (1872) Montgomery, Alabama: Alabama Civil War Centennial Commission. Kindle Book

Ragan Chapel UMC Cemetery

Location:

Ragan Chapel Road/Alabama Highway 77

Calhoun County, Alabama

33.7510986  -86.0460968

FAG: 2131078

Date of Visit: July 25, 2015

Jonathan Whiteside

Pvt Co F 9 Regt

58 Ala Infantry

Confederate States Army

Mar 21 1823      July 10 1863

Modern Tombstone

Whiteside

Martha C. Teague

Oct. 6, 1829 – July 16, 1908

J. Leander  C.S.A.

Mar 21, 1823 – July 10, 1863

Buried – Chattanooga, Tenn.

Jonathan died July 10, 1863 of typhoid fever at Academy Hospital in Chattanooga. The 58th Alabama was in Clayton’s Brigade during the Tullahoma Campaign and took part in the Hoover’s Gap engagement. In July Bragg retreated toward Chattanooga. During this time hospitals were established in Chattanooga. Jonathan’s name was not been found in Silverdale Confederate Cemetery or in the Chattanooga Confederate Cemetery. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Jonathan Whitesides, 58th Alaba Infantry Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, August 1, 2021,  (http://www.fold3.com).
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15876025/martha-cunningham-whiteside : accessed 27 August 2021), memorial page for Martha Cunningham Teague Whiteside (6 Oct 1829–16 Jul 1908), Find a Grave Memorial ID 15876025, citing Ragan Chapel Cemetery, Francis, Calhoun County, Alabama, USA ; Maintained by mulder (contributor 46825092) .
• Brewer, Willis. Brief Historical Sketches of Military Organizations Raised in Alabama during the Civil War: Reproduced from Willis Brewers Alabama: Her History, Resources, War Record, and Public Men, from 1540 to 1872. University, Al.: Alabama Civil War Centennial Commission, 1962. (Online at Alabama State Department of Archives and History), https://archives.alabama.gov/referenc/alamilor/mil_org.html.

Edwards Cemetery

Location:

Snow Waters Road

Gardendale, Jefferson County, Alabama

N 33° 41.667              W086° 48.685

Date of Visit: February 19, 2013

Single tombstone:

Sylvester F.H.

Son of John and Elizabeth Edwards

Aug 25 1845

Chickamauga CSA

Cemetery

Oct 4 1863

Opposite Side:

William Crabb

Son of John and Elizabeth Edwards

Aug 3 1841

CSA Cemetery

Miss

Aug 10 1862

Sylvester was a member of Company C of the 58^th Alabama Infantry. He was wounded severely in the abdomen at the Battle of Chickamauga. He apparently lived several days before death. There is no Confederate cemetery on the battlefield at Chickamauga. As he died two weeks after the battle he is likely buried near a hospital in the area. It is possible that he in an unmarked grave in the Marietta Confederate Cemetery.  According to Jim  a Chickamauga National Military Park historian after the war the Ladies Memorial Association of Marietta had the Confederate bodied removed from the battlefield and other areas to the new Marietta Cemetery.

William Crabb Edwards is harder to pin down. I have found one record that indicates that he served in Ragland’s Company G of the 17^th Alabama.  This has not been confirmed.

·      Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia. Original data from: The National Archives, Retrieved from at 3-Fold February 17, 2018. (http://www.fold3.com)

·      Walker County Messenger, November15, 2016

·      Alabama Civil War Database, Alabama Department of Archives

Rock Springs Baptist Church

Location:

Nixon Chapel Road

Marshall County, Alabama

N 34° 14.488              W086° 19.509

Date of Visit: September 17, 2017

Part I: Soldiers That Died In Service: Details of the service and life of these men will be posted was research is completed.

Allen Y Williams

Co H

3 Tenn Cav

CSA

1826   1862

John W.B. Hughes

Co H   4 Ala Cav

CSA

Sep 11, 1831     Jul 19, 1862

Pvt

AW Morgan

Co C  48 Ala Inf  CSA

1840   1863

In Memory of

Pvt

Alexander Sims

Co H

4 Ala Regt

CSA

1824

1863

In Memory of

Pvt

Alexander Sims

Co H

4 Regt

CSA

1824

1863

In Memory of
Pvt

Issac M Parrish

Co C

48 Ala Inf

CSA

1832

1862

In memory of

Pvt

William A.T. Parrish

Co C

48 Ala Inf

CSA

Mar 15 1828

Aug 30 1862

L.W. Parrish

1826-1862

Marked with Confederate Battle Flag

In Memory of

John Abner Smith

1829-1864

Battle of Chickamauga

Father of Nancy Crow

Part II: Confederate Veterans with Markers

James M Scruggs

Co D

48 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

1844-1915

William M Stewart

Pvt Co D 48 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Apr 26 1845    Apr 5 1911

Pvt

Wiley L Casley

22 Ala Inf

CSA

Aug 3 1826  Oct 9 1897

Pvt Madison F Cornelius

Co C

48 Ala Inf

CSA

1825

1890

Pvt

W.M. Martin

48 Ala Inf

CSA

Francis Marion Hatley

Corp  Co C  58 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

1842  1880

James Y Moultrie

Serg   Co G  22 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Mar 4 1842    Jan 24  1910

W.G.W.C. Camp

Pvt Co F  16 Ga Inf

Jul 8 1838   Jun 17 1910

Boldo Cemetery

Location:

Arkadelphia Road

Walker County, Alabama

N 33° 51.240              W087° 11.106

Date of Visit: September 17, 2011

Elihu Turner

Alabama

Pvt Co D 36 Regt Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Pvt

Mark Louis Robison

Co B

56 Ga Inf

CSA

Nov 7 1835

Aug 30 1909

Barne M. Barron

Co. G

Ala Inf

CSA

May 9 1844

Nov 15 1917

Barney M. Barren was a private in Company G of the 58^th Alabama Infantry. Barney was captured twice and ended the war at Camp Douglas, Illinois. - Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia. Original data from: The National Archives, Retrieved from at 3-Fold October 12,  2014 (http://www.fold3.com)

Lebanon United Methodist Church

Location:

Blount County Road 42

Blount County, Alabama

Lat            34.003002

Long              -86.425926

Date of Visit: August 17, 2014

Corp

Wyatt H Chadwick

Co K

7 Ala Cav

CSA

Henry Whitley

Co F

56 Ala Inf

CSA

Mace C Murphree

Co I

49 Ala Inf

John Foster

Co B  28 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Mar 13 1831   Jan 15, 1905

Joseph B Young

Co E

58 Ala Inf

CSA

Thomas Green Foster

Pvt Co L  1 Ala Cav

Confederate States Army

Mar 13, 1831   Jan 15 1905

Liberty Cemetery

Location:

US 411

St. Clair County, Alabama

Lat       33.692413

Long    -86.390282

Date of Visit: April 11,  2014

Oliver Hazard P. Venable Sr.

Co D  8 Ala Cav

Confederate States Army

Dec 23 1827   Aug 26 1913

William F Vandegrift

Born Dec 1 1844

Was Killed at the Battle of Resaca GA

May 15 1864

Member of Co G 32 & 58^th Ala Regt CSA

William’s military record records a wound at Chickamauga in 1863.. There is no record of his death at Resaca.

Source: Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama. Original data from: The National Archives, Retrieved from at 3-Fold April 11,2014 (http://www.fold3.com).

Allen P Mize

Co E 62 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

In Memory of Thomas Ash

Sept 1 1839

May 14, 1862

Buried in Corinth, Miss.

Ash was appointed Second Lieutenant of Company C of the 18th Alabama Infantry on August 31, 1861. His record ends with his death in Corinth on May 14, 1862.

Source: Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama. Original data from: The National Archives, Retrieved from at 3-Fold April 11,2014 (http://www.fold3.com).