Blue Springs Cemetery

Blue Springs Cemetery

Location:

Main Street

Mosheim, Greene County, Tennessee

36.18995, -82.95802

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 822618

Date of Completion of Survey: December 4, 2022

This is a survey of Blue Springs Cemetery in Mosheim, Tennessee using the Find A Grave memorial page for the cemetery. The cemetery page contains 435 memorials and 92 % has been photographed. 

It is also known as Blue Springs Lutheran Church Cemetery and it was established in 1811. Fifteen Union veterans are also buried in this cemetery. Protocol used for conducting a Find A Grave Survey:

• 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).
• Confederate soldiers are automatically recorded if they are marked with a VA tombstone.\
• Service of those marked with a Confederate flag or Southern Cross of Honor is are recorded if their service records can be established. 
• Soldiers whose service is described in their Find a Grave memorial are recorded if the information given can be corroborated. 

Captain J.D. Bushong

Born

Dec 17, 1840

Died From Gun Shot

April 4, 1865

At Rest

Capt. Jackson Decatur Bushong

Co I 29th Tennessee Infantry CSA

Ambushed and Killed By Bush Wackers

Five Days Before the End of the Civil War

April 4th 1865 in Lost Mountain

John Hunt Morgan Camp 205

Captain Jack Dick Bushong enlisted as a private in Company I at Henderson’s on August 21, 1861. He would serve as Captain served as Captain of Company I in the 29th Tennessee Infantry. He was severely wounded at Stone River and again twice during the 1864 battles around Atlanta. He was killed in 1865 in Greene County at Lost Mountain. See the Phelps/Fup/Volp Family History website for the story of Captain Bushong’s death in 1865. 

• Phelps/Fup/Volp Family History https://www.phelpsfulpancestry.com/documents/Bushwhacked.pdf
• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Tennessee.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for J.D. Bushong,  29th Tennessee, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, December 2, 2022,  (http://www.fold3.com).

F.W. Cobble

Oct. 24, 1826

Dec.19, 1908

Fredrick Washington Cobble was marked by a Confederate flag. Cobble enlisted in Captain J.W. Jackson’s Greene company on October 4, 1862. This company eventually became Company C of the 61st Tennessee Mounted Infantry. In March of 1863 he was appointed 2nd Sergeant. On May 17, 1863 he was captured at Big Black Swamp during the Vicksburg Siege. He was sent to Fort Delaware where he would be paroled and exchanged. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Tennessee.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for F.W. Cobble,  61st Tennessee, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, December 2, 2022,  (http://www.fold3.com).

George A. Trobaugh

July 30, 1836 – July 19, 1902

His Wife

Hannah E. Trobaugh

George enlisted in Company C of the 61st Tennessee Mounted Infantry. In May of 1863 he was captured at Big Black Swamp and apparently sent north as a POW. In the summer he enlisted in Company A of the Union 8th Tennessee Cavalry in Indianapolis for three years. He served in several hospitals as a cook until the end of the war.   

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Tennessee.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for G.A. Trobaughe,  61st Tennessee, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, December 2, 2022,  (http://www.fold3.com).

Lawrence Cemetery

Location:

State Road 337 (Menlo-LaFayette Road)

Menlo, Chattooga County, Georgia

34.4925003 -85.4738998

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 34934

Date of Visit: March 26, 2022

This cemetery is in a large pasture west of the highway. I could not secure permission to cross the fence line. This is a Find A Grave Survey.

There are 23 memorials on the Find a Grave memorial page. It has been 78 % photographed. 

John Milton Lawrence Cenotaph

In Memory of 

John Milton,

Eldest Son of 

Martin A. & Nancy E.

Lawrence,

Born Mar 29, 1837,

Lost in the War Between 

the States, 1861-1865

"This marble minstrels voiceless stone in deathless song shall tell, When many a vanished year has flown, the story where he fell."

John enlisted in Company E of the 37th Georgia Infantry on May 20, 1863 at Danielsville, Georgia. He spent time in to the Ocmulgee Hospital in Macon during September and October of 1863 with dropsy. On October 28, 1864 he was captured in Decatur, Alabama during Hoods push to attack the Union rear in Nashville. He was sent north to a Louisville, Kentucky and then to the military prison at Camp Douglas, Illinois. John M. Lawrence died at Camp Douglas on February 4, 1865 of pneumonia and was buried in grave #683, Block 2, Chicago City Cemetery.

John's father, mother, and two younger brothers are buried in the cemetery.  The brothers died in 1862. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for J.M. Lawrence, 37th Georgia Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, March 26, 2020,  (http://www.fold3.com).

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/90831593/john-milton-lawrence : accessed 20 May 2022), memorial page for John Milton Lawrence (28 Mar 1837–unknown), Find a Grave Memorial ID 90831593, citing Lawrence Cemetery, Menlo, Chattooga County, Georgia, USA ; Maintained by Nelda Reynolds (contributor 46942781) .

• Stewart Sifakis, Compendium of the Confederate Armies: South Carolina and Georgia. (Westminster, Maryland: Heritage Books, 2007), 247..