Antioch Cemetery Find A Grave Survey

Location: 2931 Roswell Road

Marietta, Cobb County, Georgia

33.97805 -84.46700

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 232549

Date Completion of Survey: July 23, 2023

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 Antioch Cemetery in Marietta, Georgia using the Find A Grave memorial page for the cemetery. The cemetery page contains 122 memorials and 89 % have been photographed. 

Pvt Alvin S Coker

Co M

Phillips LN

CSA

Mar 21 1835

Feb 12 1919

W.M. Nix

Apri. 10, 1840

Nov. 5, 1924

William Nix is marked with a Southern Cross of Honor. His pension record indicates that he joined Company A of the Roswell Battalion in 1863 and served until the end of the war. This was a local defense cavalry unit. 

• Georgia, U.S., Confederate Pension Applications, 1879-1960 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2009. Entry for W.N. Nix, Roswell Battalion, retrieved from Ancestry.com, www. ancestry.com July 22, 2023. Citing original data: Confederate Pension Applications, Georgia Confederate Pension Office, RG 58-1-1, Georgia Archives.

Shiloh United Methodist Church

Location:

Cherokee Street NW

Kennesaw, Cobb County, Georgia

N 34° 02.944  W084° 35.742

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 2158767

Date of Visit: July 9, 2017

Washington G. Thomas

Co E

39 NC Inf

Francis Boring

Co A

18 Ga Inf

CSA

Masonic Symbol

Born 1830

Died 1899

Serg

James W Brown

Co C

41 Ga Inf

CSA

J. H. Baldwin

1839 1894

The grave of Henry Baldwin was marked with a Southern Cross of Honor in 2017.  He was a member of Company C of the 41st Georgia Infantry. 

He was discharged from service in 1864 for health reasons.

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for J.H. Baldwin, 41st Georgia Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, June 6, 2023,  (http://www.fold3.com)
• Widows Pension for Sarah Baldwin. U.S., Confederate Pension Applications, 1879-1960 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2009.Original data:Confederate Pension Applications, Georgia Confederate Pension Office, RG 58-1-1, Georgia Archives.

Kennesaw City Cemetery

Location:

Cemetery Street

Cobb County, Georgia

N 34 01.219.  W084 36.931

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 34830

Date of Visit: July 9, 2017

William P. Stanley

1844-1918

CSA

18th Ga Reg Co A

See Find A Grave Memorial 60392093 for details of Stanley’s Confederate service. 

Thomas Wm Wingo

Pvt Co E 43 Ga Inf

CSA

1834     July 9, 1863

             Vicksburg

Thomas William Wingo enlisted in the Confederate Army in Cumming, Georgia in 1862.  At some point he served as a musician in the regimental band. At Vicksburg he apparently was wounded and died. He is buried in Soldier’s Rest section of Cedar Hill the actual circumstances of Williams death is not clear. Cemetery in Vicksburg. His date of death is five days after the surrender of Vicksburg, so actual circumstances of Thomas’ death is not clear. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Thomas W. Wingo, 43rd Georgia Infantry,  Retrieved from at 3-Fold, October 3, 2021,  (http://www.fold3.com).
• National Park Service, Confederate Internments, Vicksburg National Military Park, accessed May 31, 2023, https://www.nps.gov/vick/learn/historyculture/confederate-interments-w.htm

J.T. Chalker

May 3, 1844

Apr 12, 1906

Jacob Taylor Chalker enlisted at Beaulieu near Savannah on March 2, 1863. He served in Company H of the 54th Georgia infantry.  It is reported that he was wounded in the right arm at Kennesaw Mountain on June 18, 1864. The circumstances of this wounding is not clear. The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain occurred about nine days after the 18th. It is likely that Chalker was wounded in the action at Latimer Farm (near present day Marietta Country Club) where Walker’s Division including Mercer’s Brigade and the 54th was in the line of battle next to French’s division when three Union divisions pushed attacked. Johnson was forced to move his troops toward Kennesaw Mountain. 

• Confederate Pension and Record Department. Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia 1861-1865. 7 vols. Hapeville: Longino & Porter, 1955-58. Data Systems, comp. U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2009.
• William R. Scaife, The Campaign for Atlanta (Kennesaw, Georgia: Kennesaw Mountain Historical Association: Heritage Books, 2007), 190.

County Line UMC Cemetery

Location:

County Line Road

Acworth, Cobb County, Georgia

33.9836006, -84.7339020

Find A Grave #33448

Date of Visit: October 12, 2013

John F Hadaway

Pvt Co H 19 Regt Ga Inf

Confederate States Army

Aug 10 1844      Feb 17 1928

Richard P Hadaway

Pvt Co H 19 Regt Ga Inf

Confederate States Army

Sep 19 1839      Mar 21 1928

David W Story

Pvt Co K 29 Regt

Ala Vol Inf

Confederate States Army

May 4 1830     Mar 2 1904

James M Griggs

Pvt Co D  7 Reg Ga Inf

Confederate States Army

Jul 19 1819      Aug 14 1910

John H. Story

Pvt Co H   44 Regt

Ga Vol Inf

Confederate States Army

Aug 6 1841     Dec 20 1901

Garrett Cemetery

AKA Old Holley Springs Cemetery

Location:

Highway 92

Cobb County, Georgia

N 34° 03.968   W084° 25.506

Date of Visit: October 22, 2017

Andrew Stephens

Co H

7 Ga Inf

CSA

Wilson W Stephens

Co H

7 Ga Inf

CSA

Hargrove Cemetery

Location:

Windy Hill Road

Smyrna, Cobb County, Georgia

N 33° 54.074   W084° 28.795

Date of Visit: January 16, 2011

William F. M. Reeves

Co B 9 Ga Artillery

CSA

June 1836

May 30 1916