AKA Blountsville First United Methodist Cemetery
Location:
Church Street
Blountsville, Blount County, Alabama
N34° 04.839 W086° 35.338
Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 433813
Date of Visit: April 27, 2017
Pickney A. Westbrook
Pvt Co E 47 Ala Inf
Confederate Staates Army
July 24 1834 Mar 21, 1906
Robert D Duncan
Pvt Dews Ala Co
Confederate States Army
Jun 24, 1833 Dec 25 1872
William W. Born
Co D
9 Ga Arty
CSA
Absolom W. Duncan
Pvt Dews Company
Confederate States Army
May 5 1840 Aug 19 1864
Duncan enlisted in Captains Dew's Company in September of 1861 in Bloiuntsville, Alabama. This company became Company B of the 29th Alabama Infantry. Between 1862 and April of 1864 the saw duty in in the panhandle of Florida and in Mobile. In April the 29th joined the Army of Tennessee in Resaca, Georgia and took part in the Atlanta Campaign. The 29th took heavy losses at Resaca, Kennasaw, and while in the line around Atlanta. He died on August 22, 1864. There is no record of the cause of his death.
- Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama. Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for A.W. Duncan, 29th Alabama Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, March 25, 2024, (http://www.fold3.com)
- Brewer, Willis. 1872. Alabama: Her History, Resources War Record, and Public Men From 1540 to 1872. Montgomery, Alabama: Barrett & Brown. https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=QogshH4pd50C&pg=GBS.PP4.
Thomas F. Duncan
Co C. 19 Ala Inf
Confederate States Army
Oct 17 1831 May 27,1865
Thomas enlisted at Mt. Pinson in 1861. He was captured at Chicamauga in 1863 and sent to Camp Douglas in Chicago, Illinois. In March of 1865 he was forwarded to City Point, Virginia on March 14, 1865 for exchange. He was admitted to a hospital at Camp Lee in Richmond after being exchanged. Family trees put his place of death as Blountsville.
- Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama. Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Thomas F. Duncan, 19th Alabama Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, March 25, 2024, (http://www.fold3.com)
- Finch, Peggy Dean, "Dean-Finch-Blair-Sapp-Stephens-Grigsby-McCarty-Blackwood-Bolding Family Tree," Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed March 25, 2024),.Family profile for Thomas F. Duncan (1831-1865)
Capt
William Graves
Graves Co
Ala Cav
May 13, 1865
Graves, William, (Captain), born 10 Mar 1818 near Blountsville; served Captain of Grave's Company of Alabama Cavalry. Entered the army in 1862 at Blountsville in the Barbierie Battalion. Just after the surrender, he was shot and killed by "Tories" of Blount County 3 May 1865 and was buried in the First Methodist Church Cemetery at Blountsville. William married Martha Pullen 27 Nov 1839, Blount County Children included: Milton T., Nancy, Marcus D.L., Mary J., Monroe, Susan, Lena, and William D. Graves.
- Fosdyck, James C., "John Dunklin Sullivan, AlGenWeb - Blount Aounty, Accessed March 25, 2024. https://algenweb.org/blount/CivilWar/jdsullivan.html
