Friday, September 27, 2024

Sparta Cemetery

Sparta Cemetery

Hamilton Street

Sparta,  Hancock County, Georgia

N 33° 16.716   W082° 58.416

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 37105


Date of Visit: November 21, 2020


Terrell Bruce

Co D

1 Ga Inf

CSA


Sidney Lewis

Co A

6 Ga Inf

CSA


Marcus D Lane

Co A

6 Ga Inf

CSA 


James F. Bowen

Co A

11 Ga Inf

CSA


Hamlin Lewis. Alfriend

Co I

49 Ga Inf

CSA


James H. Rogers

Co A

6 Ga Inf

CSA


2 Lieut. 

AM Hutchinson

Co A

6 Ga Inf


Herbert E. Garrett

Co E

15 Ga Inf

CSA



Jos A Vardeman

Co K

53 Ga Inf

CSA


John T Pinkston

Co A

6 Ga Inf


Mus

SD Rocker

6 Ga Inf

CSA


2d Lieut

William Doughty

Co C

8 Ga Inf

CSA


Thomas Clayton Turner

Georgia

1st Sgt Co A 6 Regt Ga Inf

Confederate States Army

Dec 5 1842

Aug 20 1912


L.G. Morris

3 Co

Hancock Co Mil

CSA


William Howell

Co A

6 Ga Inf

CSA


William A. Martin

Co A

6 Ga Inf

CSA


AS Mitchell

Co L

59 Ga Inf

CSA


William H. Harris

Co A

6 Ga Inf

CSA


John R Culver 

Co E

7 Ga Cav

CSA


James W McCook

Co A

6 Ga Inf


Ben A Alfred

Co E

15 Ga Inf

CSA


Janes B. Brantley

Co K

15 Ga Inf


Col

John T Jordan

49 Ga Inf

CSA


Lt. Col

William A Arnold

Co A

6 Ga Inf

CSA


2 Lieut

Joseph S Sykes

Co I

59 Ga Inf

CSA


Frank Burnett

Co I

49 Ga Inf

CSA


1 Lieut

Henry H Oliver

Co E

15 Ga Inf

CSA


James M Powell

Co A

6 Ga Inf

CSA


Actg Asst Sorg

William M Green

Ga

State Troops

CSA



Sgt

William P. Sasnett

Co 5

15 Ga Inf

CSA


Capt

John Allen

Co I

49 Ga Inf




Henry L Orgain

Epes Co

Va HV Arty

CSA


James P. Smith

Dece 25, 1842

Nov 6, 1913


James's grave was marked with a Southern Cross of Honor. He served in Company I of the 49th Georgia Infantry. 


  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19527382/james_polk-smith: accessed September 27, 2024), memorial page for James Polk Smith (25 Dec 1842–6 Nov 1913), Find a Grave Memorial ID 19527382, citing Sparta Cemetery, Sparta, Hancock County, Georgia, USA; Maintained by Dr. Jeff Smith (contributor 47542527).


Capt

H N Hunt

CSA


Henry Alexander Hunt served in Company I of the 49th Georgia Infantry and in 7th Georgia Battalion of calvary. 


  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19495661/henry_alexander-hunt: accessed September 27, 2024), memorial page for Capt Henry Alexander Hunt Sr. (1826–1889), Find a Grave Memorial ID 19495661, citing Sparta Cemetery, Sparta, Hancock County, Georgia, USA; Maintained by Jim Nelson (contributor 47275092).


 

Sunday, September 8, 2024

Mt. Zion Campground Methodist Church Cemetery


Location:

Camp Ground Road  (Adel Highway)

Morven, Brooks County, Georgia

N 30° 57.64788'   W083° 29.97576'

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 1910560


Date of Visit: June 29, 2014


Andrew Jackson Hardee

Co D

20th Batt.

Ga Vol. Cav CSA

June 1844       Oct 1902


Nathan L Gronto

Pvt Co H 9 Ga Inf

Confederate States Army

May 3 1838      Oct 8 1898



Enoch Pike

Oct 13, 1836

Mar 1 1915


Enoch's grave was marked with a Southern Cross of Honor. He served in the 20th Battalion of Georgia Calvary.


  • Ancestry.com. Georgia, U.S., Confederate Pension Applications, 1879-1960 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2009. Entry for Enoch Picke, 20th Battalion Georgia Calvary, retrieved September 8, 2024. 



Here rests a beloved

HUSBAND & FATHER

N.M. Reddick

Born

Sept 10, 1836

Died

Feb 13, 1892


Nicholas Mason Reddick joined Company G of the 26th Georgia Infantry (Lamar's Regiment). This company would become Company C of the 7th Battalion of Georgia Infantry, and finally Company C of the 61st Georgia Infantry. Nicholas was se early wounded and Fredricksburg. After being nursed back to health at home in Brooks County her returned to the 61st. He served to the end of the war and surrender at Appomattox. He appears as a 28 year old prisoner of war surrendered on April 9, 1865. 


  • Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for N.M. Reddick, 61st Georgia Infantry and 19th Alabama Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, September 8,2024,  (http://www.fold3.com).

Wednesday, August 14, 2024

Land Cemetery


Harris Beamer Road S.W.

Calhoun, Gordon County, Georgia

N 34° 29.696'   W085° 59.4066'

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 2290342


Date of Visit: August 2, 2024



Capt.N.B.

Hudgins

21st Ga Regt.

Born

Dec 29, 1836

Died

July 16, 1905

Tuesday, August 13, 2024

Oostanaula Baptist Church

Location:

Old Rome-Dalton Road

Gordon County, Georgia

N 34° 29.2434'    W085° 1.5408'

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 2158787


Date of Visit: August 3, 2024



Martin Bird Talley

Co C  8 Ga Batt

Confederate States Army

Mar 25 1822  May 8 1904

Sugar Valley Baptist Church (Update)



Location:

US HWY 136

Gordon County, Georgia

N 34° 34.501   W085° 01.480


This cemetery was originally visited in 2009. Subsequent visits in 2018 and 2024 resulted in the location of burials of the following Confederate soldiers.  The cemetery was originally blogged on June 21, 2009. 


John Hamilton Bridges

Corp Co C  39 Ga Inf

Confederate States Army

1839      1915


William John Hall 

February 5, 1825

October 26, 1889


In 2018 William John Hall's grave  was marked with the Southern Cross of Honor. Hall He served as a 2nd Lieutenant in Company C , 8th Georgia Infantry Battalion. Company C, known as Littlefield's Volunteers was recruited from Gordon County Georgia and mustered at Blackwood Springs in the fall of 1861. He was captured in 1864 and sent to Camp Chase in Ohio. He was paroled at Richmond in 1865. 


  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/76150306/william_john-hall: accessed August 13, 2024), memorial page for William John Hall (5 Feb 1825–26 Oct 1889), Find a Grave Memorial ID 76150306, citing Sugar Valley Baptist Church Cemetery, Sugar Valley, Gordon County, Georgia, USA; Maintained by NB (contributor 47589535).

A Note to Visitors