Concord Cemetery

Location:

Duncan Road

Quitman, Brooks County, Georgia

30.826506  -83.530594

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 33372

Date of Visit:June 29, 2014

Jackson Flowers 

10 BN Ga Inf

CSA

Andrew Treadaway

Pvt Co F 6 Regt Ga Inf

Confederate States Army

Sept 7 1844  Jan 20 1921 

John D Belcher

Co B

13 Ga Inf

CSA

Jan 15 1838

Apr 26 1921

West End Cemetery

Location:

West Screven Street

Quitman, Brooks County, Georgia

30.78440 -83.56690

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 37666

Date of Visit: June 29, 2014

Unknown Confederate Dead

During this last year of the war West Cemetery was used for the burial of 17 Confederate soldiers. Some are marked by Veteran Administration Confederate headstones and others are marked by what appears o be locally carved headstones. 

2 Lieut

John S Hopson

Co D

17 Ga Inf

CSA

Chales Quarterman

Coast Guard BN

Ga Mil

CSA

2nd Lt

James B Finch

50 Ga Inf

CSA

Malcom Smith McIntosh

Co C  29 BN Ga Cav

Confederate States Army

Feb 14 1823     Oct 31 1877

Henry H Strickland

Co K

50 Ga Inf

CSA

1834   1875

Henry Gray Turner

Mar 20, 1839

June 8, 1904

Captain in Confederate Army

Member of Congress 1880-1890

Georgia Supreme Court Justice

July 1903-April 1904

Captain Turner served as the Captain of Company H, 23rd North Carolina Infantry. He was captured at Gettysburg in 1863. H was paroled and exchanged in 1864. 

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7780787/henry-gray-turner: accessed 29 April 2023), memorial page for Henry Gray Turner (20 Mar 1839–9 Jun 1904), Find a Grave Memorial ID 7780787, citing West End Cemetery, Quitman, Brooks County, Georgia, USA; Maintained by Find a Grave.

William Baker Bennett

1827-1908

In 2014 he was marked with a Southern Cross of Honor. He is said to have enlisted in Confederate service. He was discharged and sent home due to disability.

• Folks Huxford, The History of Brooks County, (Quitman: Daughters of the American Revolution, 1948): 426. ancestry.com

Cap John G McCall L.L.D.

Jan 18, 1836 - Dec 3 1921

In 2014 his grave was marked with a Southern Cross of Honor. He volunteered for Confederate service a 1st Lieutenant off Company K of the 50th Georgia Infantry. He was severely wounded after the Battle of Antietam while engaged in holding a bridge. The wound to his face was som severe he was left on the field for dead. He was eventually nursed back to health and returned home to Brooks County. 

• Folks Huxford, The History of Brooks County, (Quitman: Daughters of the American Revolution, 1948): 549. ancestry.com

Benjamin Waters Sinclair 

1812-1878

In 2014 his grave was marked with the Southern Cross of Honor. 

Huxford reports that Sinclair was too old for line duty, but he served on Governor Brown’s staff during the war.

• Folks Huxford, The History of Brooks County, (Quitman: Daughters of the American Revolution, 1948): 513. ancestry.com