Saturday, October 31, 2020

Shiloh United Methodist Church Graveyard

Location:
Shiloh Road
Dooly County, Georgia
32.050388  -83.759964

Date of Visit: June 25, 2014

Jeremiah Seago 
Co F
57 Ga Inf
CSA

Vienna City Cemetery



Location:
East Woodward Street
Vienna, Dooly County, Georgia
32.098564  -83.796399

Date of Visit: June 25, 2014

Thomas W Mitchell
Pvt Co C 55 Regt Ga Inf
Confederate States Army
Jan 11 1844   Sep 1 1917

Pvt 
JF McClean
Co I
10 KY Cav
CSA
1834  1919

Andrew J Blunt
Co D
15 Ala Inf
CSA

James P Powell
Co G
60 Ga Inf
CSA


Monday, September 28, 2020

Chadwick Cemetery



Location:
US Highway 41/Manchester Pike
Rutherford County, Tennessee
35.6519012, -86.2572021

Date of Visit: June 9, 2019
FAG: 10372


Corp
James M. Fulks
Co E
4 Tenn Cav
CSA

Kewanee Cemetery

Location:
US Highway 11
Kewanee, Lauderdale County, Mississippi
32.4250000 -88.4372400


Date of Visit: May 29, 2020


Sgt
John C Lowe
Co E
13 Mississippi Inf


EH Honeycutt
Co. A
13 Miss Inf
C.S.A.


Abraham D Bower
Co. H 8 Miss Inf
C.S.A.



Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Cantrell Cemetery

Location:
County Road 99
Addison, Winston County, Georgia
N 34° 12.064 W087° 14.498


Date of Visit: May 5, 2020


Pvt
Joseph W Hodge
Co C
1 Ga Inf
CSA
Oct 7 1844 Nov 3 1914
S


Solomon Harrison Everett
Confederate States Army
July 3, 1843 May 13, 1916

Monday, September 21, 2020

Mt. Olive Church and Cemetery


Location:
Ga Highway 157
Chattooga County, Georgia
N 33° 34.835   W085° 26.738

Date of Visit: March 26, 2020
Pvt
William T. Brown
Co L
39 NC Inf
CSA
1848         
1931


William A. Grayson 
Co C
52 Ga Inf 
CSA

Thursday, May 21, 2020

Nesmith Cemetery

Location:
Crump Road
Guin, Marion County, Alabama
33.971756   – 87 928642
Find-A-Grave: #24869

Original Visit: February 23, 2014


Martin Nesmith
Co B  22Ala Inf
Confederate States Army
Aug 13 1843         Mar 15 1884

Wednesday, May 20, 2020

Mount Carmel Cemetery

Location:
Columbus Street
Cordova, Walker County, Georgia
33.752323  – 87.184258
Find-A-Grave: #24603
AKA Tatum Cemetery

Original Visit: March 24, 2014


William J. Daniel
Co C
22 Ala Inf
CSA

Friday, May 8, 2020

Stone Mountain City Cemetery

Location:
Silver Hill Road
Stone Mountain, DeKalb County, Georgia
N 33° 48.786     W084° 10.248
FAG Cemetery #158505
Date of Visit: January 12, 2014

Historical Marker: GHM 044-42A GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1956

Unknown Confederate Dead
Here sleep, known but to God, approximately one hundred and fifty Confederate solders, most of whom died from disease, or wounds in the Confederate hospitals that were located near this spot. Some where killed in a skirmish with Federal raiders near here on July 19, 1864.
Although Federal troops raided and burned part of this city, Confederate hospitals were not molested. Brave and gallant Confederate women rendered valuable aid in caring for soldiers in Confederate hospitals here and elsewhere. 044-42A


Serg
George P. Bradley
CO H
8 Ga Inf
State Guards
CSA
Jan 2 1823
Aug 20, 1872

Pvt
Benjamin Thomas Ivie
CO G
Cobbs Legion
Ga Inf
CSA

Sgt
WFA Dickerson
Co D
38 Regt
Ga Inf
CSA
Jul 25 1840
Jun 30 1926




Wilburn R Wells
Feb 22 1833
Jul 12 1906
2nd Lieutenant of Co. K
2nd Regt Ga Reserve Inf
CSA

Sgt
Phil B McCurdy
Co D
38 Ga Inf
CSA

J.L. Sawyer
Oct 21 1847
Jan 19 916
Co B 7th Ga

Pvt Thomas J. Thomas
Co D
38 Regt
Ga Inf
CSA
May 17 1836
June 19 1891

Rufus P. Ferguson
PFC Co A 42 Ga Regt Ga Inf
Confederate States Army
Nov 1843   May 1925

E.F. Camp
Co H
2 Ga Cav
CSA
1836 – 1925

Milton A. Herndon
Co G
43 Ga Inf
CSA


NN Humphrey
Pvt 2 Regt Ga Res Cav CSA
May 8 1848.  March 30 1914


Corp
James AJ Duren
Co h
2 Regt
Ga Cav
CSA July 14 1830
Mar 31 1909

Presley Lanier
Born 1820 38 Ga CSA
Killed at Spotsylvania CH
May 12, 1864

Presley enlisted in 1861 Murphy’s Guards of Wrights Legion. This company became  Company D of the 38th Georgia. He was captured at Fredericksburg and paroled for exchange change. He was killed in action at Spotsylvania Court House in Virginia on May 12, 1864.

His grave site is unknown and his name isn't recorded among the confederate dead buried in the Spotsylvania Confederate Cemetery.

After the war, his wife Nancy raised the couple's six dependent children and applied for and received a state pension for her husband's service. An inscription honoring Presley Lanier is carved on the back of Nancy Lanier's grave stone at Stone Mountain Cemetery, DeKalb Co., GA.



  • Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia. Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Presley Lanear, Retrieved from at 3-Fold May 8, 2020 (http://www.fold3.com).


·       "Public Member Tree," database, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 8 May 2020), "Baum-Mullennix Family Tree" family tree by MullennixFamily, Note for Presley Lanear (b. 1820 d. 1864).  








Thursday, May 7, 2020

Henderson Baptist Church

Location:
US Highway 41
Henderson, Houston County, Georgia
32.339298. – 83.790207
Find-A-Grave: #2305087


Original Visit: June 29, 2014


Chester R. Pearce
Co K
18th GA Inf
CSA

Thursday, April 23, 2020

Hall Station Road Cemetery (Update)

Location:
Bartow County Garbage Receiving Facility
Kingston, Bartow County, Georgia
N 34° 17.377   W084° 56.539

Original Visit: 9/11/2010


Pvt
Thaddeus Clemmons
Co K
19 Ga Inf
CSA
1842
1863

Thaddeus was a son of Henry Augustus Clemmons of Kingston, Georgia. He had a brother, Thomas A or T.A. that lost a leg at Antietam and was captured and paroled. He enlisted in Company K, Georgia 19th Infantry Regiment on 11 Jun 1861.
He was was admitted to the General Hospital at Farmville, Virginia with  diarrhea   on Sept 5, 1862. On October 13 he was furloughed for 60 days. The final record is that he died on October 6, 1863 at home in Georgia.

In 1938 an application was made for a headstone for Thaddeus Clemmons, a private in Co. I 18th Georgia  who died October 6, 1863. It was to be placed at Connesena Cemetery.

How It Got to Hall Station Road:

According to his Find A Grave Memorial: Inside of fence at dump station on Hall Station Rd. This marker was placed by the Stiles/Akin Camp #670 Sons of Confederate Veterans. On this site there was a marker reported to Robert Crowe camp commander by a railroad worker. Robert kept note of the location when it was discovered the original marker was removed and the camp requested a marker be replaced.



A Note to Visitors