Young Family Cemetery

Location:

Morgan Valley Road

Polk County, Georgia

N 33° 57.016   W085° 13.101

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 1990504

Date of Visit: November 28, 2022

James Young

Dec 22, 1832

Mar 27, 1918

James Young was a Lieutenant in Captain Wimberley’s Company of Floyd’s Legion.

See Sherman’s March to the Sea at Georgia Trends. This piece is written byNeely Young, a descendent of Lieutenant Young. 

https://www.georgiatrend.com/2014/12/01/shermans-march-to-the-sea/

Peek-Wright Cemetery

Location:

Morgan Valley Road

Polk County, Georgia

N 33° 57.294   W085° 11.634

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 2204197

Date of Visit: November 28, 2022

Thomas J. Peek

Apr. 8, 1826

Mar. 21, 1880

Thomas’ grave is marked with an iron Southern Cross of Honor. Thomas mustered  into serve on August 134, 1863 in Cedartown as a member of Captain Henry F. Wimberly’s Company in the Floyd Legion. This company became a calvary company in the Legion (Company G). This Legion operated out of Rome and was responsible for local defense.

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for T.J. Peek, Floyd Legion, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, March 20, 2023,  (http://www.fold3.com).

Dr Benjamin Franklin Wright

Jan 10, 1846

Aug 10, 1898

Wright is identified as a Confederate solider on his Find a Grave memorial. 

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/20184829/benjamin-franklin-wright: accessed 20 March 2023), memorial page for Dr Benjamin Franklin Wright (10 Jan 1846–10 Aug 1898), Find a Grave Memorial ID 20184829, citing Peek & Wright Cemetery, Polk County, Georgia, USA; Maintained by Stacey Bland (contributor 46628904).

Shiloh Baptist Church

Location:

Bailey Road

Esom Hill, Polk County, Georgia

N 33° 56.810   W085° 21.475

FAG: 201814

Date of Visit: September 27, 2021

Jeremiah M Isbell

Pvt Co C Floyd Legion

Confederate States Army

Jan 17 1829   Apr 22 1913

David Sylvester Berry

Pvt Inf Regt

Phillips Legion Ga Vols

Confederate States Army

Jun 7 1825     Jan 6 1889

Andrew J Eison

Co A.  38 Ga Inf

Confederate States Army

1832      1886

William J Garner

Co F

40 Ga Inf

CSA

From Williams Find a Grave Memorial: An "Application for Headstone" dated 1/27/1933, in the Military Archives listing William J Garner of Co. K, 40th Regt GA Inf., buried at Cedartown, Polk County. His birth was listed as 2/22/1839 and his death date as 5/24/1864. Find-a-Grave index # 15012210.

There is a record of a W.J. Garner who enlisted at Buchanan, Georgia in 1862. He was a member of Company K of the 40th Georgia. He was captured at Vicksburg and paroled in 1863. A  W.J.  Garner was paroled in North Carolina in 1865. 

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15012210/william-jackson-garner : accessed 12 October 2021), memorial page for William Jackson Garner (22 Feb 1839–24 May 1864), Find a Grave Memorial ID 15012210, citing Shiloh Baptist Church Cemetery, Esom Hill, Polk County, Georgia, USA ; Maintained by Evening Blues (contributor 46587085) .

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for William J. Garner , 40th Georgia Alabama Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, October 12, 2021,  (http://www.fold3.com).

Hardeman Cemetery

Location:

County Road 773

Cherokee County, Alabama

N 34° 14.791              W085° 28.841

Date of Visit: June 13, 2011

AT Thomas

Co B

Floyd’s Ga Legion

CSA

Jim Roe

1843-1893

Veteran of Civil War