Garden of Memories Cemetery (AKA Ragland Methodist Church Cemetery)

Location:

Church Street

Ragland, St. Clair County, Alabama

N 33° 44.3962   W086° 09.3655

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 22951

Date of Visit: April 21, 2024

Pvt

Oakley

Brown

Co D

21 Ala Inf

CSA

Apr 20 1824   May 26 1901

William T. Morris

Pvt Co F

Young's Btry Ga Arty

Confederate States Army

Oct 16 1846.   Apr 18, 1926

I.M. Sims

Reg 42 Co G CSA

This is not a VA Confederate tombstone. Ignatious Sims was a member of Company G of the 42nd Alabama Infantry. He was captured and paroled twice during the war. Likely at Corinth and at Vicksburg. He served to the end of the war.

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Ignatious Sims, 42nd^h Alabama Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, June 23, 2024,  (http://www.fold3.com).

Box Cemetery

Location:

Old Nashville Road

Ragland, St.Clair County, Alabama

N 33° 44.5501'   W086° 10.3216'

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 21743

Date of Visit: April 21, 2024

Pvt

J.B. Ingram

Co D

51 Ala Inf

CSA

Aug 25, 1833

Henry Hudson Stokes

Co G

4 SC Regt

CSA

Dec 13 1840

Feb 5 1926

FM Higginbotham

Co D

42 Ala Ind

CSA

Thomas Higginbothum

Co D

25 Ala

CSA

John W Davis

Co C

18 Ala Inf

CSA

Mar 12 1843  Oct 2 1906

John Randall Ramsey

Co K

18 Ga Inf

CSA

Frank Harrison

Co A

51 Ala Cav

CSA

July 17 1844

Apr 17 1921

Samuel S. Higginbothum - CSA Flag

1841 - 1911 

Samuel was a member of Company E of the 51st Alabama Calvary (Partisan Rangers).

• Alabama, Texas and Virginia, U.S., Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Entry for S.S. Higginbothum 51st Alabama Calvary, retrieved from Ancestry.com, June 23, 20241,  (http://www.ancestry.com)

James B. Henderson - CSA Flag

1829-1898

Henderson was a member of Company D of the 10th Alabama Infantry. He enlisted in 1861 and was elected 2nd lieutenant. Over the course of the war he spent several stretches of time sick in hospitals. He also was detailed as a hospital steward in Richmond at one time. He was palled as a private in Virginia in 1865.

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for James B. Henderson, 10th Alabama Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, June 233, 2024,  (http://www.fold3.com).

Fairview #2 Cemetery

AKA Beulah Cemetery

Location:

State Highway 23

St. Clair County, Alabama

N 33° 46.786   W065° 21.687

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 2304977

Date of Visit: January 8, 2017

Pvt

William W. Hill

Co F  29 Ala Inf

CSA

Oct 1834     Sep 11 1906

William M. McBrayer

Co E

62 Ala Inf

CSA

Elisha A Dickert

Co D

8 Ga Inf

CSA

Reeves Grove Baptist Church

Location:

US Highway 11

St. Clair County Alabama

N 33° 52.219              W086° 18.459

Date of Visit: December 26, 2015

Rubin William Earley

1^st Lieut  Co D 25 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Jan 8 1812     Jan 8 1863

Lieutenant Early resigned February 17, 1862. - Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama. Original data from: The National Archives, Retrieved from at 3-Fold December 28, 2015 (http://www.fold3.com).

Corp

William Henry Earley

Co A

10 Ala Inf

1843

1862

Enlisted at Ashville, Alabama on June 4, 1861. He was wounded in the hand and left knee in action before Richmond on June 30, 1862. He was admitted to the Chimborazo Hospital in July 1. He died on July 23, 1862, - Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama. Original data from: The National Archives, Retrieved from at 3-Fold December 28, 2015 (http://www.fold3.com).

J.E. Earley

Sgt

25 Ala Inf CSA

Jun 18 1836  -  Feb 14, 1916

Liberty Cemetery

Location:

US 411

St. Clair County, Alabama

Lat       33.692413

Long    -86.390282

Date of Visit: April 11,  2014

Oliver Hazard P. Venable Sr.

Co D  8 Ala Cav

Confederate States Army

Dec 23 1827   Aug 26 1913

William F Vandegrift

Born Dec 1 1844

Was Killed at the Battle of Resaca GA

May 15 1864

Member of Co G 32 & 58^th Ala Regt CSA

William’s military record records a wound at Chickamauga in 1863.. There is no record of his death at Resaca.

Source: Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama. Original data from: The National Archives, Retrieved from at 3-Fold April 11,2014 (http://www.fold3.com).

Allen P Mize

Co E 62 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

In Memory of Thomas Ash

Sept 1 1839

May 14, 1862

Buried in Corinth, Miss.

Ash was appointed Second Lieutenant of Company C of the 18th Alabama Infantry on August 31, 1861. His record ends with his death in Corinth on May 14, 1862.

Source: Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama. Original data from: The National Archives, Retrieved from at 3-Fold April 11,2014 (http://www.fold3.com).

Bethel Baptist Church

Location:

US 411

Moody, St. Clair County, Alabama

Lat       33.624012

Long    -86.452820

Date of Visit: April 11, 2014

Paul Meads

Clanton’s Btry. Ala. L. Arty

CSA

Hopewell Cemetery

Location:

US Highway 411

St Clair County, Alabama

Lat       33.887409

Long    -86.148239

Date of Visit: April 11, 2014

OM Samson

Co D 19^th Ala CSA

POW

Rock Island, Ill.

He was captured at Missionary Ridge on November 25, 1863. He was transferred to Louisville, Kentucky and then to Rock Island Barracks in Illinois. Here he took the oath of allegiance to the United States in 1864.  Cemetery records indicate that he died in 1888.

Sources

Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama. Original data from: The National Archives, Retrieved from at 3-Fold April 14, 2014 (http://www.fold3.com).

Find a Grave Memorial #96974418

Capt

JW Maddox

Co C 55 Ala Inf

CSA

Jul 21 1812

May 28 1876

John W Ford

Co G

1 Ala Cav

CSA

WH Thompson

Pvt Co D 51 Ala Cav

Confederate States Army

Dec 10 1840  Mar 12 1917

John Andrew Thompson

Serg  Co G 22 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Washington Green Thompson

Serg Co G 22 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Feb 20 1837  Oct 17 1917

Serg

William M Downs

Co K

38 Tenn Inf

CSA

Hillard D Bridges

Co A

47 Ala Inf

CSA

Oct 30 1838

Aug 12 1911

LD Edwards

Co I

17 Regt

Ala Inf

CSA

Aug 8 1827

Dec 24 1880

James P Dill

51 Ala Partisan Rangers CSA

Mar 4 1845   Jul 2 1904

WHH Riddle

Co D

51 Ala

Partisan

Rangers

CSA

Steele Cemetery

Location:

AKA: Antioch Baptist Church Cemetery

Chandler Mountain Road

St Clair County, Alabama

N 33° 56.177   W086°  12.478

Date of Visit: September 13,  2012

In Memory

S G Berry Carrington

Co G

18 Ala Inf

CSA

1836

1891

William M Trotter

Co G

Phillips GA Legion

CSA

William H Littleton

Co G

10 NC Arty

CSA