Saturday, April 24, 2010

Whitehouse Cemetery

Location:
US Highway 278
Marion County, Alabama
N 34° 07.380 W087° 44.088

Date of Visit: April 6, 2010

G.W. Threadgill
Co F
44 Ala Inf
CSA

J.C. Garrard
Co A
14 Ala Cav
CSA

Mt Hebron United Methodist Church Cemetery

Location:
Lamar County Road 77 (Mt. Hebron Road)
Lamar County, Alabama
N 33° 56.562 W088° 04.380

Date of Visit: April 6, 2010

William P. Aldridge
Co I
11 Ala Inf
CSA

William B. Robinson
Pvt Co E
48 Regt Ala Inf
Confederate States Army
Oct 16 1840 Dec 13 1891

Hosp Steward
W.W. Purnell
Co H
26 Ala Inf
CSA

Henson Springs Cemetery

Henson Springs Cemetery
Location:
River Road
Lamar County, Alabama
N 34° 00.781 W088° 03.892

Date of Visit: April 6, 2010

John T. Harmon
Co A
8 Miss Inf
CSA3 1910

James H. Real
Co B
26 Ala Inf
CSA

Theo Scott Collier
Pvt Co. H 6 Regt Miss Cav
Confederate States Army
Jul 6 1849 Aug

Crump Cemetery

Location:
River Road
Lamar County, Alabama
N 34° 00.844 W088° 03.927

Date of Visit: April 6, 2010

James Vanburen Crump
Pvt Co G 16 Ala Infantry
Confederate States Army
April 28, 1837 Aug 29, 1908

Hayes Cemetery

Location:
Powell Road
Bartow County, Georgia
N 34° 22.497 W084° 49.521

Date of Visit: March 28, 2010

Russell G. Woodall
Co F
28 Ga Inf
CSA
Sep 24, 1839
Feb 17, 1924

Pvt
Wyatt Adcock
Co C
4 Ga Cav
CSA
Mar 10, 1825
Jan 8, 1888

Memory of
G.W. Mosteller
Who fell at the battle of
Missionary Ridge 1863
Aged 25 years, 7 mo & 3 days

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Panola United Methodist Cemetery

Panola United Methodist Cemetery

Note: In the 1980’s during a time I refer to as BM and BK (Before Marriage and Before Kids) I traveled the back roads of west Alabama in search of Confederate soldiers buried in the old cemeteries. This was also before the now ubiquitous GPS. I still have much of this information. I have decided that I would share as much of this information as possible since most likely my yet to be born grandchildren will have to throw it away many years down the road. The following are a couple of rules of the road that I will adhere to. In the BM and BK times I spent a great deal of time at night trying to identify the men buried in the cemeteries I visited that were marked with civilian tombstones on company rosters and in regimental accounts. However, in these postings you will find only those clearly marked as CSA. As far as locations go I will use the locations as I originally described them. I will also use coordinates from the GNIS database when I feel comfortable that it applies. I do not have pictures as this was also the pre-digital age. For this reason I retain the exact recording format as originally recorded.

Cemetery Location:
Sumter County Highway 34
Panola, Sumter County, Georgia
GNIS Coordinates (DMS) 32° 56’ 07” N - 088° 15’ 00” W

On USGS Topomap this cemetery is identified as Pleasant Grove Cemetery and the associated church is identified as Shady Grove Church. Another source identifies this cemetery as Shady Grove Protestant Methodist Church.

I remember walking in this cemetery early one Sunday morning and being given a tour of the old church by a little gray haired lady.

Capt. James T. Meek
1830-1866
36th Ala Inf

Dr. Wm Gray Little
d. 1883
Surgeon CSA Army

Capt John M. Quarles
Co. A 36th Ala Inf

Noah Little
1832-1865
Co. A 5th Ala Battl

T. Barnes
1811-1868
Co. A 5th Ala Inf Battl
William Halsell, Sr.
1832-1913
Co. L 41st Miss Inf

C.M. A. Podgers
1837-1895
2nd Miss Vol Cav

Henry M. Bostick
d. 1904
Co. A 5th Ala Inf.

E.S. Little
36th Ala Inf
“born August 12, 1837, wo. Chickamauga Sept 19, 1863 d. Atlanta Oct 8, 1863”

Henry G. Stanton
Died June 24, 1864
“whose remains still lies in some unknown spot in Lafayette, Georgia where he was killed in battle”

J.T. Jenkins
1831-1861
5th Ala Inf
“Died Union Mills, Va October 28, 1861”

William Henry Geiger
“Son of J.C. Geiger 1841-1867
A gallant solider, enlisted in the CSA as A Cadet from South Carolina College, was a
courier to Col. Kilpatrick 1 S.C. Regt”

Sunday, March 21, 2010

Connesena Baptist Church Cemetery

Location:
Connesena Road
Bartow County, Georgia
N 34° 16.848 W084° 57.522

Date of Visit: March 20, 2010

Archibald McDonald
Co H
60 Ga Inf
CSA

Jefferson McDonald
5 Ga Regt
CSA

L.M. Fountain
Co D
14 Ga Inf
CSA

Albert Smith
Co C
18 Ga Inf
CSA

Pvt. Thorton Adams
Co. E
8 Ga Bn
CSA
1838
1913

Mizpah United Methodist Church Cemetery

Location:
Hwy 293 (Kingston Road)
Floyd County, Georgia
N 34° 16.580 W085° 03.816

Date of Visit: December 29, 2008

William Barnes
Co. H
18 Ga Inf
Confederate State Army

Thomas J. McClain
Co C
40th Ga Inf
Confederate State Army

G.W. Wiseman
Co. C
46 Ga Inf
Confederate State Army

Andrew J. Barnes
Co. G
18th Ga Inf
Confederate State Army

W.H. Barnes
Co. G
18 Ala Inf

Sunday, February 28, 2010

East View Cemetery

Location:
Highway 41
Adairsville, Bartow County, Georgia
N 34° 22.021 W084° 55.484

Date of Visit: February 27, 2010

Thomas Monroe Durham
Pvt. Co I 20 Regt Ga Inf
Confederate States Army

Joshua Bray Gardner
Pvt Co D Phillips Legion
Confederate States Army

M Cox
Pvt Logans Co. Ga Cav
Confederate States Army

Richard Dempsey Combs
Pvt Barry’s Co Tenn Lt Art
Confederate States Army

D.W. Loudermilk
Pct Co. C Phillips Legion
Ga Vols
Confederate States Army

James H. Roper
Pvt Co E 23 Regt Ga Inf
Confederate States Army

John W Franklin
Pvt Co K 35 NC Inf
Confederate States Army

Viril A. Hamby
2nd Lt Co I 7 Regt Ga Inf
Confederate States Army





Tice W. Furrow
Pvt Co I 4 Virginia Res
Civil War
May 15, 1864

Warren D. Stewart
Pvt Co. A & K 38 Regt Ga Inf
Confederate States Army

John H. King
Pvt Co L 6 Regt Ga Cav
Confederate States Army

The following four markers are sitting on a low wall of a family plot in the cemetery. They are not assocated with any grave,

Gilbert Gholston
Pvt Co. I 63 Regt Ga Inf
Confederate States Army

W.H. Gholston
Sgt Co A 16 Regt Ga Inf
Confederate States Army

Isaac Gholston
Pvt Co. H 40 Regt Ga Inf
Confederate States Army

Zachariah Gholston
Sgt. Co C Cobb’s Legion Ga Vols
Confederate States Army

Sunday, February 7, 2010

Russell Hill Baptist Church

Location:
Russell Hill Road
Gordon County, Georgia
N 34° 34.354 W084° 59.931

Date of Visit: January 18, 2010

Oscar Davis
Co H
29th Ga Cav
May 15, 1846
Jan 18, 1932

John T. Warren
Co. F
4th Ga Cav
CSA

Hill City Baptist Church

Location:
Hill City Road
Gordon County, Georgia
N 34° 35.902 W085° 00.276

Date of Visit: January 18, 2010

John C. Stokes
Pvt. Co G 9 Ga Inf
Confederate States Army
Jan 15, 1824 Sep 30, 1911

A Note to Visitors