Showing posts with label Alabama Militia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alabama Militia. Show all posts

Saturday, March 27, 2021

Hillabee Campground Methodist Church

Location:
Tallapoosa County Road 33/ Camp Ground Road
Tallapoosa County, Alabama
N 33° 02.973   W085° 54.272
FAG: 23434

Date of Visit: February 19, 2021


Thomas M Polk
Co B
38 Ala Inf

T Z Tate
Pvt Co I 8 Conf Cav
Confederate States Army
Mar 18 1839   May 27 1914

Bennett L. Stancil
Pvt Co A 12 Regt Ala Inf
Confederate States Army
Jul 18 1842     Nov 12 1925

Andrew Champion
Co B
37 Ala Inf
CSA

George W Porter
2nd Serg. Co C  59 Regt Ala Inf
Confederate States Army

George W Pearson
Com Ala Inf
Confederate States Army
Mar 1829    Feb 1876

Not sure of what “Com” means, but he enlisted in Company C of Hillard’s Legion.

  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 26 March 2021), memorial page for George Washington Pearson (16 Mar 1829–16 Feb 1876), Find a Grave Memorial no. 85050681, citing Hillabee Campground Cemetery, Tallapoosa City, Tallapoosa County, Alabama, USA ; Maintained by Hutch (contributor 47312109) .
  • Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for George Washington Pearson, Hillard’s Legion, Retrieved from at 3-Fold February 16, 2021,  (http://www.fold3.com).


Drewry F Hooton
Pvt Co A  59 Ala Inf
Confederate States Army
Oct 20 1824     Dec 26 1903


James Neighbors
Co C 47 Ala Inf
CSA

Corp
James W Holdridge
Co G
14 Ala Inf
CSA
Jul 31 1840
Apr 2 1868


William Rogers
3rd Corp Ala Militia
Confederate States Army
Feb 13 1811    Oct 27  1901

John M Bailey
Pvt Alabama Militia
Confederate States Army
Jan 15, 1809   Sept 18 1882

Edmund P Horton
3rd Serg
Ala Mtd Militia
Confederate States Army

Robert J McKemie
Pvt Co A  41 Ga Regt
Confederate States Army


AJ Reid
Born Mar 22, 1831 
Died Apr 2, 1914

Back:
Member of Confederate Army
Co G Wheelers Cav. 

In the 1907 enumeration of Clay County veterans Andrew Jackson Reid of Childersburg reported that he enlisted in 1862 in  Company C of the 6th Georgia Calvary regiment. This regiment was a part of Wheeler’s Calvary. 

  • Ancestry.com. Alabama, U.S., Census of Confederate Soldiers, 1907, 1921 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA. Census or Enumeration of Confederate Soldiers Residing in Alabama, 1907-1908. Alabama Department of Archives & History, Montgomery, Alabama. Entry for Andrew Jackson Reid.
  •  Stewart Sifakis, Compendium of the Confederate Armies: South Carolina and Georgia. (Westminster, Maryland: Heritage Books, 2007), 156.
  




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