AKA Beth-Salem Presbyterian Church Cemetery
Location:
Church Street
Lexington, Oglethorpe County, Georgia
33.8701000 -83.1088000
FAG: 1852871
Date of Visit: Find a Grave Survey December 8, 2021
John Rufus Smith
Maj Co B
Texas Cav
Mexican War
CSA
Aug 22 1828
Sep 28, 1864
The following four monuments are set side by side in the cemetery. They may be cenotaphs.
Pvt
G.W. Faust
Co K
6 Ga Inf
CSA
Aug 23, 1862
Records indicate that that he died in 1864 at Spotsylvania .
- Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia. Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for G.W. Faust, 6th Georgia Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, December 9, 2021, (http://www.fold3.com).
Pvt
James A Johnson
Co K
6 Ga Inf
CSA
Sept 14, 1862
The compilers of the service records of Confederate soldiers could not confirm the military service of J.A. Johnson in Company K. However, in the Southern Watchman for January 28, 1863 a J. Augustus Johnson of Company K (Gilmer Blues) was listed having died in service since the onset of the war. This was published in the Georgia Historical Quarterly for December 1932 and was noted on a service record card for J.N. Johnson in Company K of the 6th Georgia. There was a 16 year old Augustus Johnson, son of Nathan Jonson, living in Oglethorpe County in 1860.
- Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia. Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for J.A. Johnson, 6th Georgia Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, December 9, 2021, (http://www.fold3.com).
- 1860 U.S. Census, Oglethorpe County, Georgia Population Schedule, Census Place: Georgia Militia District 226, Post Office: Lexington, p.667, dwelling 479, family 477, John Edwards: digital images, Ancestry (http://ancestry.com:accessed 9 Dec 2021), NARA Roll M653, Family History Library Film: 803133.
- Confederate Necrology. (1932). The Georgia Historical Quarterly, 16(4), 312–314. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40576219
Pvt
P.T. Jackson
Co K
6 Ga Inf
CSA
Dec 10 1861
Georgia 6th Regiment, Company K, Gilmer Blues, Army of Tennessee. Private Philip T. Jackson enlisted in the Gilmer Blues May 28, 1861. The regiment mustered in at Atlanta May 27, 1861. In October it was in the Department of the Peninsula in Virginia. Philip died December 8, 1861 in Yorktown. The 6th was not engaged in combat until the Spring of 1861.
- Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/36624011/philip-t-jackson : accessed 9 December 2021), memorial page for Philip T. Jackson (1842–10 Dec 1861), Find a Grave Memorial ID 36624011, citing Lexington Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Lexington, Oglethorpe County, Georgia, USA ; Maintained by William Hollis (contributor 48361969) .
- Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia. Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Philip T. Jackson, 6th Georgia Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, December 9, 2021, (http://www.fold3.com).
- Sifakis, Stewart. Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Alabama. Westminster, MD: Willow Bend Books, 2007.
Pvt
WH Hargrove
Co K
6 Ga Inf
CSA
Sept 14 1862
William H. Hargrove enlisted inn Company K in May of 1861. There is no record of him after September of that year. He was also listed in the Southern Watchman list of dead from the Gilmer Blues on January 28, 1863.
- Confederate Necrology. (1932). The Georgia Historical Quarterly, 16(4), 312–314. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40576219
- Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia. Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for William H. Hargrove, 6th Georgia Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, December 9, 2021, (http://www.fold3.com).
