Nixburg United Methodist Church Cemetery

Location:

Alabama Highway 19

Coosa County, Alabama

N 32° 49.172   W086° 06.726

FAG: 25003

Date of Visit: February 22, 2021

Wm Edwin Dubose Moore

Coosa County Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

July 2 1820  Aug 15 1894

Capt 

Westley D Walden

Co B

2 Batt

Hillard’s Legion

Ala Inf

CSA

Aug 1 1829    Oct 10 1863

Walden was elected Captain of a company of men from Coosa County that became Company B of the 2nd Battalion of Hilliard’s Legion in April of 1862. Captain Walden was wounded at Chickamauga and died in October in Marietta, Georgia. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for West Walden, Hilliard’s Legion. Retrieved from at 3-Fold June 3, 2021 (http://www.fold3.com).

Note: The following Robbins men were sons of Solomon Robbins. Captain Walden was their brother-in-law. 

• George E. Brewer “History of Coosa County, Part II.” Alabama Historical Quarterly 4, no. 2 (1942): 253-256. https://archive.org/details/alabama-historical-quarterly-v04n02/page/n97/mode/2up

George W Roberts

Pvt Co C 60 Ala Inf

3rd BN Hillard’s Legion

Confederate States Army

May 6, 1836  Jul 10, 1863

Private Roberts enlisted in Captain Smith’s company in Rockford, Alabama on May 6, 1862. This company became Company C of the 3rd Battalion of Hilliard’s Legion.  In the winter of 1863 he was sick and in the hospital in Knoxville. In January of 1863 Robbins was declared u fit for duty due to pulmonary consumption and discharged. Local histories state he died in the service of the CSA. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for George W. Robbin, Hillard’s Legion. Retrieved from at 3-Fold June 3, 2021 (http://www.fold3.com).

Thomas C. Robbins 

Thomas shares a tombstone with his wife Tampa. He was born in 1832 and died March 22, 1863. His epitaph is as follows: Died on the field of battle. Twas noble thus, to die. God smiles on valiant soldiers, on high. 

Thomas enlisted in Captain Smith’s company of Hilliard’s Legion in May of 1862 at the age of 30. This company subsequentially became Company C of the 3rd Battalion of Hillard’s Legion. He served until his death in Knoxville on March 21, 1863. The Legion was not engaged in March, so his death may have been sickness related. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for West Walden, Hillard’s Legion. Retrieved from at 3-Fold June 3, 2021 (http://www.fold3.com).

• Find a Grave, database and images (www.findagrave.com/memorial/24366809/thomas-clinton-robbins : accessed 04 June 2021), memorial page for Thomas Clinton Robbins (30 Jun 1832–22 Mar 1863), Find a Grave Memorial ID 24366809, citing Nixburg United Methodist Church Cemetery, Nixburg, Coosa County, Alabama, USA ; Maintained by Richard Robinson (contributor 46480518) .

Center Valley Cemetery

Location:

US Highway 225

Murray County, Georgia

N 34° 50.075   W084° 48.278

FAG: 1962817

Date of Visit: June 1, 2021

Green Berry Langston

Pvt Co B  1 Regt Ga Inf

Confederate States Army

Oct 10 1844      Mar 5 1897

Davenport Cemetery

Location:

County Road 22

Cherokee County, Alabama

N 34° 11.433   W085° 27.586

FAG: 22463

Date of Visit: May 11, 2021

William E. Kirkpatrick

Capt Co E 19 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Dec 16 1814   Sept 14 1883

Captain Kirkpatrick of Kirks Corner served until 1862 when he resigned his commission. 

Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for William E. Kirkpatrick, 19th Alabama Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, June 1, 2021,  (http://www.fold3.com).

In April of 2021 three documents pertaining to Captain Kirkpatrick were auctioned for 250 dollars by Cowans (see below).

Lot of 3 items

KIRKPATRICK, William E. ALS, Kirks Grove, Cherokee County, AL, Sept 23, 1865. To Andrew Johnson, U.S. President. "I was a Country Post Master under the old government & simply transferred myself to the service of the Confederate government when that ...went into operation." He goes on to request amnesty to rejoin the United States. At the bottom of the letter is a recommendation for this. Kirkpatrick seems to have been drafted later. He enlisted as Captain in the 19th AL Infy.

Signed Oath of Amnesty, 10 August 1865. This was apparently sent in with the other papers.

PARSONS, Lewis E. Provisional Governor of Alabama. LS by Lewis Parsons to Andrew Johnson stating that he has examined Mr. Kirkpatrick's application and is of the opinion that he "will prove a good and loyal citizen." on Executive Department of Alabama letterhead, Montgomery, 9 Nov. 1865.

https://www.cowanauctions.com/lot/civil-war-request-for-amnesty-and-oath-of-allegiance-of-william-kirkpatrick-4083989

Hopper Family Cemetery

Location:

US Highway 411

Gordon County, Georgia

N34 31.322 W084 42.503

FAG: 2449118

Date of Visit: May 26, 2021

In Memory of 

John Angel

Hopper

Died A CSA War

Capt. In Yazoo, Miss

Born 1825

Died 1863

John Angel Hooper was commissioned as Captain of Company E 8th Battalion of Infantry on September 23, 1861.  Company E was raised in Gordon Coyunty, Georgia and was known as Freeman’s Volunteers. Captain Hopper and the company served coastal defense duty until being sent west in May of 1863. He died of fever in Yazoo during the movement to relieve Vicksburg on June 11, 1863.  He is thought to have been buried somewhere in Mississippi. See his Find a Grave Memorial page for more details. 

• Find a Grave, database and images (www.findagrave.com/memorial/49493910/john-angel-hopper : accessed 27 May 2021), memorial page for Capt John Angel Hopper (1825–11 Jun 1863), Find a Grave Memorial ID 49493910, citing Hopper Family Cemetery, Ranger, Gordon County, Georgia, USA ; Maintained by Kathy Gatlin (contributor 46822976) .

• Lulie Pitts, History of Gordon County, Georgia, (Calhoun: The Press of Calhoun Times, 1934), 138.

Overton Cemetery

Location:

Oak Grove Road

Gordon County, Georgia

34.45666 -84.97386

FAG: 2449118

Date of Visit: March 17, 2018

Sgt

John C Overton

Co E

51 Regt

Ala Cav

May 10, 1847

Jan 28 1918

Laney Cemetery

AKA Moshat Cemetery

Location:

County Road 83

Cherokee County, Alabama

N 34° 07.173   W085° 37.073

Date of Visit: May 11, 2021

Calvin H. Barron

Co B

3 Ga Cav

CSA

Calvin J Edgens

Serg

Co D

1 SC Inf

Confederate States Army

Calvin had a head stone with the following inscriptions: “Fired the first shot at Ft. Sumpter”.  A Cherokee County Chamber of Commerce publication states that he is alleged to have been in a battery that firsd on Fort Sumter.  

The following is found at his Find A Grave Memorial:

Fought for the CSA during the Civil War. 1st SC infantry (regulars)Butlers - also known as the Third SC Heavy Artillery. Enlisted in Spartanburg, SC and served on South Carolina coastal defense through most of the war. Fought at the Battle of Bentonville, NC a few weeks before the end of hostilities.

Married Harriett Brannon after the war and moved towards Rome, Georgia which was under a smallpox quarantine at the time. Went around Rome and settled in Cherokee County, Alabama and became a farmer. Allegedly was a member of the battery that fired the first shot on Ft. Sumter (Cherokee County Historical Society)

• Find a Grave, database and images (www.findagrave.com/memorial/18558998/george-jefferson-edgins : accessed 13 May 2021), memorial page for George Jefferson Edgins (30 Oct 1838–24 Jan 1890), Find a Grave Memorial ID 18558998, citing Laney Cemetery, Cherokee County, Alabama, USA ; Maintained by glockem (contributor 46898841) .

Socopatoy Cemetery

Location:

Alabama Highway 9

Coosa County, Alabama

N 32° 58.900   W086° 04.081

FAG: 26361

Date of Visit: February 22, 2021

John D Shelton

Pvt Co B 34 Regt Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Oct 31 1828      Nov 19 1905

W.W. Selman

Capt  Co H 14 Regt Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Nov 13 1816.     Jun 6 1875

Albert Thomas

Pvt Co C 53 Ala Cav

Confederate States Army

Jan 7 1822    Jun 12 1906

George F Hester

Co D

17 Ala Inf

CSA

Abram Hester

Serg Co D 17 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Feb 4 1811        May 8 1884

Thomas Smith

Pvt Co E 12 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Aug 1 1813       Dec 13 1885

Howell Rose Robbin

Co D   17 Regt Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Aug 1 1845      Apr 30 1923

Thomas H Mitchell

Pvt Co B 12 Regt Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Jan 8 1840      Feb 28 1924

Lucius A Hawes

Pvt Co F 1 Batt Ala Arty

Confederate States Army

Aug 19 1837    Nov 6 1864

Enlisted in in Company F of the artillery battalion Wetumpka, Alabama  in 1861. Throughout the war he served in Company F and A. In April of 1864 the 1st Battalion of Artillery was stationed at Fort Morgan. On August 23, 1864 he was  captured  at Fort Morgan. He was sent to New Orleans where he spent time in hospital with dysentery before being and then to Elmira, New York as a prisoner of war. He died of pneumonia on November 10, 1864 and was buried in Grave 811. The marker at Socopatoy is a cenotaph. He is still buried in New York. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for L.A. Hawes, 1st Battalion of Alabama Artillery. Retrieved from at 3-Fold May 9, 20231 (http://www.fold3.com).

• Joyce M. Tice, “Civil War Prison Camp, Elmira, Chemung County, New York,” Tri-Counties Genealogy & History, accessed May 9, 2021, https://www.joycetice.com/cemc/prisoneh.htm

New River Baptist Church Cemetery

AKA: Killingsworth Family Cemetery

Location:

County Road 44

Fayette County, Alabama

N 33° 50.092   W087° 39.458

Date of Visit: May 1, 2021

J.M. Wakefield

Co K

4 Ala Cav

CSA

Apr 12 1846

Aug 8 1920

New River Church of Christ Graveyard

Location:

County Road 49

Hubbertville, Fayette County, Alabama

N 33° 45.248   W087° 41.618

FAG: 22463

Date of Visit: May 1, 2021

Hiram Hyde

Co F

38 Ala Inf

CSA

New Prospect United Methodist Church Graveyard

Location:

Tallapoosa County Road 54

Reeltown, Tallapoosa County, Alabama

N 32° 40.612   W085° 49.162

FAG: 2218659

Date of Visit: February 19, 2021

M F Potts

Co H

44 Ala Inf

CSA

Eagle Creek Cemetery

Location:

Alabama State Highway 49

Tallapoosa County, Alabama

N 32° 56.583   W085° 45.037

FAG: 22595

Date of Visit: February 19, 2021

George M. Roberts

Co F

47 Ala Inf

CSA

Pvt

Peter E Harris

Co A

47 Ala Inf

CSA

1822

1871

Pvt

Richard E. Davis

Co G

34 Ala Inf

CSA

Nov 1 1834

Nov 21 1905

James Willis McKinnon

Co G 34 Ala Regt

Civil War

1840

1919

Adam Clark Duffy

Pvt Co G 5 Ala Inf Regt

Confederate States Army

Nov 4 1836  Jun 30 1920

Pvt

Huston Coker

Co D  34 Ala Inf

CSA

1927

Mar 1 1868

John Wynn Freeman

Pvt Co G  5 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

May 15, 1834     Jun 5 1922

Orlando Tyler Shepard

Pvt Co D 1 Ala Cav

Confederate States Army

Jan 1 1844.   Mar 13 1924

Doctor  Bugle Boy

For Gen Joe E. Wheeler

Orlando enlisted in 1861 in Montgomery. He was detached as bugler for General Wheeler’s escort December 13, 1862. In 1864 he was still attached to the escort with this duty. After the war he was a respected doctor in Tallapoosa County. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for O.T. Shepard, 1st Alabama Calvary, Retrieved from at 3-Fold April 21, 2021,  (http://www.fold3.com).

• “Resolutions.” The Alexander City Outlook, June 14, 1921, p. 2 https://www.newspapers.com/image/308154820

Blksmith

William S Harris

Co A 10 Conf Cav

CSA

1830    1892

HF Freeman

Pvt Co D  34 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Aug 17 1836   Mar 30 1922

George W Adair

Pvt  2 Ga Inf

Confederate States Army

Aug 25 1844    Mar 2 1926

CM Harkins

Co I 

8 Conf Cav

CSA