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 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).

White Plains Baptist Church Graveyard

Location:

Main Street

White Plains, Greene County, Georgia

N 33° 28.328   W083° 02.088

FAG# 496062

Date of Visit: November 21, 2020

Corp

William Hitchcock

Co C

49 Ga Inf

CSA

Dawson H. Moore

Co I

8 Ga Inf

CSA

Alonzo Howell

Co A

Phillips Legion 

CSA

Henry Mapp

Co A

Phillips Legion

CSA

Sgt

J.F. Copeland

Co I

8 Ga Inf

CSA

Marcellus A. Simmons

Co E

15 Ga Inf