Nectar Cemetery

Location:

State Highway 160

Nectar, Blount County, Alabama

N 33° 57.700   W086° 38.041

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 1969279

Date of Visit: May 19, 2017

John T. Green

Pvt Co H. 66 Ala Inf

Confederate State Army

1833    1911

Zachariah T. Adams

Pvt Co B 68 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

1835     1910

Richard H Smith

Corp Co C. 29 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Mar 10 1836     Dec 13 1916

William W Marsh

Pvt Co K  6 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

July 18 1864

William enlisted in Company K in 1863 in Virginia. He was killed July 18, 1864. He was likely killed at the Battle of Cool Springs in Clarke County, Virginia. 

• 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) Montomery, Alabama: Alabama Civil War Centennial Commission. Kindle

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for William Marsh, 6^th Alabama Infantr, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, April 3, 2024,  (http://www.fold3.com).

David Doty

Born

Apr 13 1835

Died

Nov 26 1911

David served in Company D of the 8th Texas Calvary. 

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/17492252/david_alphus-doty: accessed April 3, 2024), memorial page for David Alphus “Dave” Doty (13 Apr 1836–26 Nov 1911), Find a Grave Memorial ID 17492252, citing Nectar Cemetery, Nectar, Blount County, Alabama, USA; Maintained by Irene Williams (contributor 47358667).

Blountsville Cemetery

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

Hudson-Brown Cemetery

Find A Grave Survey

Location:

Warren Road

Locust Grove, Blount County, Alabama

33.91530, -86.60560

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 21831

Date Completion of Survey:

April 30, 2020

Protocol for conducting a Find A Grave Survey:

1. There must be evidence of Confederate service in a picture on the memorial page (VA tombstone, inscription on a non-military tombstone, Confederate flag, Southern Cross of Honor).
2. Confederate soldiers are automatically recorded if they are marked with a VA tombstone.
3. Service of those marked with a Confederate flag or Southern Cross of Honor is are recorded if their service records can be established. 
4. Soldiers whose service is described in their Find a Grave memorial are recorded if the information given can be corroborated. 

This is a survey of the Hudson-Brown Family Cemetery near Locust Grove, Alabama using the Find A Grave memorial page for the cemetery. The cemetery page contains 24 memorials of which 92%  have been photographed. 

Description of Cemetery: This is an old cemetery with multiple stacked stone graves. Nine individuals were buried in the cemetery prior to the Civil War. There are two veterans of the War of 1812 buried here.

James C Glascock

Serb  Co I 49 Regt Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

1839    1917

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. 

Liberty Cemetery

Location:

Alabama Avenue

Oneonta, Blount County, Alabama

N 33° 57.064   W086° 27.789

FAG: 23968

Date of Visit: September 15, 2012

James M. Carnes

Pvt Co A 12 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Feb 28, 1826   Jun 10, 1907

John T. Maynor

Co B

20 Ala Inf

CSA

Joseph B. Peddy

Co B 20 Regt Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

1827   1880

Wiley J Walker

Co B

12 Ala Cav

CSA

Clear Springs Cemetery

Location:

Blount County Highway 15

Blount County, Alabama

N 33° 51.872              W086° 33.821

Date of Visit: April 27, 2017

James B Blackburn

Sgt Co F 32 Ala Inf

1837        1863

I cannot find any record of James B. Blackburn’s service or death.

Greens Chapel Cemetery

Location:

Green Chapel Road

Cleveland, Blount County, Alabama

N 33° 57.670              W086° 35.340

Date of Visit: May 19,  2017

Sgt

Jackson Hazelrig

Co C

28 Ala Inf

CSA

Feb 1 1820

Jul 10 1862

2^nd Sergeant Jackson Hazelrig enlisted in Blount County on February 4, 1862. His name appears on a roll of soldiers, killed or who died of wounds. His date of death is given as July 10, 1862 and his place of death is Gainesville, Alabama. His widow, Jane Hazelrig filed a settlement claim September 14, 1863.

In the month of July in 1862 this regiment was posted north of Tupelo in Satilla, Mississippi.

Gainesville was large Alabama city during this time. Various sources mention several hospitals in this town.

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 June 11,  2017. (http://www.fold3.com)

The History of the 28^th Alabama Infantry Regiment ,http://americancivilwar.50megs.com/28thAlabama01.html

Find a Grave Memorial #99974660

High Rock Methodist Church

Location:

High Rock Road

Blount County, Alabama

N 33° 57.727              W086° 41.244

Date of Visit: April 27, 2017

Alfred A Johnson

Pvt Co F  3 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

1834    1908

Brooksville Baptist Church

Location:

Highway 79

Blount County, Alabama

No Coordinates

Date of Visit: July 22, 2011

F.M. Henderson

Co F

28 Ga Inf

CSA

Union Grove MBC

Location:

Union Grove Road

Snead, Blount County, Alabama

N 34° 08.075  W086° 20.538

Date of Visit: July 22, 2011

Joel W Boyd

Pvt Co E 8 Ga Cav

Confederate States Army

Oct 13 1842   Feb 12 1919

AM Irvin

Co I

8 Conf Cav

CSA

Eldredge W Miller

Pvt Co C  48 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Jul 14 1839  Sep 27 1903

Mt. Carmel FCM Church

Location:

Mt. Carmel Road

Blount County, Alabama

N 34° 06.424              W086° 19.487

Date of Visit: July 22, 2011

William H Lee

Pvt Co H 16 Ky Inf

Dec 29 1840  Jun 30 1913

Joseph W Griffin

Co K

47 Ala Inf

CSA

WW Odum

Confederate States Army

Sept 3 1840

Sept 3 1917

There is a record of a W.W.F. Odum that was stationed at a Camp of Instruction in 1862 in Talladega, Alabama. - - Compiled Service Records of Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama Original data from: The National Archives, Retrieved from at 3-Fold January 20, 2016 (http://www.fold3.com).

Hood Cemetery

Location:

Hood cemetery Road

Blount County, Alabama

N 34° 03.406    W086° 29.364

Date of Visit: July 4, 2011

John K Jones

Co B

36 Ala Inf

CSA

Andrew Jackson Hood

Sgt Co B 13 BN Ala Rangers

Confederate States Army

1825   1904

Edward Columbus Hood

Sgt  Co A  48 Regt Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

1844  1864

It is reported that he was slightly wounded on May 6, 1864 There are no other service records. 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 1, 2015 (http://www.fold3.com).

Elisha B Hendricks

Co E 39 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Sep 13 1838   Feb 18 1908

Sgt

William M McDonald

Co D

12 Regt

Ala Cav

CSA

July 8, 1829

Oct 23, 1864

James Sherrer

Co F

1 Fla Inf

CSA

In Memory of

Eldridge James Reynolds

Pvt Co B 38 Ga Inf

Confederate States Army

1824   1863

Reynolds was detailed much of 1862 to Naval Yard in Savannah, Georgia. He returned to the regiment some time after January of 1863. On May 4, 1863 he was killed at Marye’s Heights During the Battle of Fredericksburg. 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 1, 2015 (http://www.fold3.com).

Wynnville Cemetery

Location:

County Road 34

Susan Moore, Blount County, Alabama

N 34° 04.868              W086° 23.674

Date of Visit: July 4, 2011

W.T. Kelley

Co I

52 Ga Inf

CSA

Benjamin G Hamby

Co E

21 Ga Inf

CSA

John L Moses

Serg   Co H   41 Ga Inf 

Confederate States Army

Jan 22 1836   Aug 3 1886

Harmony Baptist Church

Location:

County Highway 59

Blount County, Alabama

Lat                  33.85.2642

Long              -86.945442

Date of Visit: December 16, 2014

Pvt Josiah Easley McCarn

Co C

19 Ala Regt

CSA

Aug 3 1848 

Apr 29 1907

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

Remlap Methodist Church Cemetery

Location:

Remlap Drive

Remlap, Blount County, Alabama

Lat            33.818359

Long       -86.598969

Date of Visit: March 24, 2014

Richard F Campbell

Capt Co I 49 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

1834

Corp

Ira J Higginbotham

Co C

29 Ala Inf

CSA

1842      1864

Note: Ira J Higginbotham was admitted to the Ross Hospital in Mobile, Alabama on November 26, 1863 with intmed fever. This term was used to describe Intermittent Fever. Intermittent fever was a recurring fever most likely related to malaria.

Sources

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 9, 2014 (http://www.fold3.com).

Common Civil War Medical Terms, retrieved from e-History Archive April 9, 2014. http://ehistory.osu.edu/uscw/features/medicine/cwsurgeon/commonterms.cfm

Shannon K Higginbotham

Pvt Co B Barbiere’s Bn

Ala Cavalry

Confederate States Army

1827    1895

Mathew Hamilton Higginbotham

Lieut  Co C  29 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

1837     1908

Pleasant Grove Cemetery

Location:

Blount County 21

Snead, Blount County, Alabama

N 34° 10.117              W086° 23.614

Date of Visits: July 13, 2012

Solomon Parks Buckalew

Pvt Co A Camp of Instruction Ala

Confederate States Army

Joseph B French

Pvt Co E 49 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Nov 28 1840    Jan 13 1924

Joesph W Buckalew

Pvt Co B  28 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

July 7 183   Sep 15 1903

In Memory

Elijah Buckalew Jr

Pvt Co A Camp of Instruction Ala

Jan 9 1829   Dec 12 1895

William H Kemp

Pvt Co G  3 Regt Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Mar 5 1846    Oct 27 1933

Lamb Cemetery

Location:

Highway 75

Blount County, Alabama

Date of Visit: 7/4/2011

J.W. Hicks

CO L

15 Ala Inf

CSA