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:
- 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.
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.
