Wednesday, March 30, 2022

Kemp Baptist Church Cemetery

Location:
County Road 41
Addison, Winston County, Alabama
N 34° 10.497   W087° 10.923
Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 329730

Date of Visit: March 26, 2022

George Washington
Hamrick
Serg Co H 55 Ga Inf
Confederate States Army
1841      1909


Monday, March 28, 2022

Hadder Cemetery

Location:
County Road 145 
Winston County, Alabama
N 34° 08.823   W087° 10.394
Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 2285326

Date of Visit: March 26, 2022

Cpl
Leverett H Evans
Co H
1 Ga Regt
CSA
1817
1886

Urias Woodley
CSA
1820
1909

Urias served in Company B of the 7th Alabama Cavalry from 1862 to 1865. 
  • Ancestry.com. Alabama, Texas and Virginia, U.S., Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.


Moses Craig Fincher
Young’s Co
Ala Calvary
CSA
Mar 10 1826
Jan 11 1886

Moses enlisted in 1864 in a home guard unit called Young’s Company. He was paroled in Montgomery, Alabama on June 1865. 

  • Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for M.C. Fincher, Young’s Cavalry Company, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, March 29, 2022,  (http://www.fold3.com).


Antioch Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery

Location:
County road 61
Lamar County, Alabama
N 33° 52.437   W087° 57.408
Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 21282

Date of Visit: March 26, 2022

William W. Gosa
Co K
36 Ala Inf
CSA

William was captured at Missionary Ridge on November 25, 1863. He was sent to Louisville Kentucky and then to Rock Island Barracks in Illinois. He took the Oath of Allegiance and was released June 20, 1865. 

  • Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for W.N. Gosa, 36th Alabama Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, March 28, 2022,  (http://www.fold3.com).

Providence Cemetery

Providence Cemetery
Location:
Providence Road
Lamar County, Alabama
N 33° 49.228   W087° 57.805
Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 25685

Date of Visit: March 26, 2022

John K Miller
Co F
23 SC Inf
CSA
March 12 1841
April 11 1932


Sunday, March 27, 2022

Berry City Cemetery


Location:
Homestead Street
Berry, Fayette County, Alabama
N 33° 39.856   W087° 35.747
Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 21501

Date of Visit: March 26, 2022

William P. Earnest
Co I
32 Ala Inf
CSA

A J Hocutt
Hoskin’s Btry
Miss L. Arty
CSA

James Riley Stephens
July 8, 1845
Oct 16 1928
A Hero To His Country
And A Believer In Christ

J.R. Stephens enlisted in Company C of the 26th Alabama Infantry. He served for three years and stated that he was slightly wounded at Jonesboro. 

  • Alabama U.S., Census of Confederate Soldiers, 1907, 1921 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.

New Hope Cemetery


Alabama Highway 69
Kings Mill, Walker County, Alabama
 N33 44.866 W087 22.536
Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 2138076

Date of Visit: March 26, 2022

John Holly Swindle
Pvt Co K. 50 Ala Inf
Confederate States Army
Feb 26 1843     Jul 11 1911


Byrd Covin
Co K
43 Ala Inf
1836
Jul 13 1898

James Morris
Co K
26 Ala Inf
CSA






Sunday, March 13, 2022

Oak Level United Methodist Church Cemetery

Location:
County Road 55 (Rabbitown Road)
Cleburne County, Alabama
N 33° 51.040   W085° 28.777
Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 1983656

Date of Visit: February 25, 2022

Elijah W  Pitchford
Pvt
Co I 25 Ala Inf Regt
Confederate States Army
Oct 5 1832. Jul 24, 1906

Eliab F. Davidson
Co B
Hardee’s BN
State Trps
CSA
1825   1900


Tuesday, February 22, 2022

Garmany Cemetery

Location:
Georgia State Highway 136
Lafayette, Walker County, Georgia
N 34° 48.218   W085° 21.359
Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 34097

Date of Visit: January 5, 2022


Three men are marked with the iron South Cross of Honor in this cemetery: William N. Garmary, John Wiley Adam Campbell, and Samuel Vance Price. 


S.V. Price
Born
Aug 31, 1840
Died
Feb 27, 1886

Samuel V. Price’s Find a Grave Memorial states that he served in Company H, 26th Georgia Infantry. There are no records of Price in National Archives Compiled Service records. For the 26th Georgia.  However, his name does appear the 26th Tennessee Infantry/1st Georgia Infantry Memorial on the Chickamauga battlefield. This company was captured at Fort Donelson and sent to the POW camp at Camp Douglas. Eventually it was exchanged and reorganized as a part of the First Georgia Infantry. Samuel was a member of Captain J.C. Gordon’s Company raised at Crawfish Springs, Georgia in April of 1861. The company traveled to Knoxville as a part of the 3rd East Tennessee Infantry and became Company H of the 26th Tennessee Infantry. Samuel name actually appears on a detachment of the 26th Tennessee whom escaped from Fort Donelson. 

  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/31831303/samuel-vance-price : accessed 22 February 2022), memorial page for Samuel Vance Price (31 Aug 1840–27 Feb 1886), Find a Grave Memorial ID 31831303, citing Garmany Memorial Gardens, Walker County, Georgia, USA ; Maintained by Whitfield (contributor 47786265) .
  • 26th Tennessee Infantry / 1st Georgia Infantry Memorial, HMdb.org: The Historical Marker Database, https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=106548, accessed February 22, 2022
  • Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Tennessee.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for S.V. Price, 26th Tennessee Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, February 22, 2022,  (http://www.fold3.com).


William N. 
Garmany
Aug 4, 1826
Mar 30, 1910

William Newton Garmany’s Find a Grave Memorial states that he served in Company E, 6th Battalion, Georgia State Guards. William enlisted in Captain J.C. Hall’s Company of Cuberson’s Battalion of Calvary for six months of local defense serve on August 1 1863. Captain hall’s company was designated Company E and Cuberson’s Battalion became known as the 6th Battalion of Calvary, Georgia State Guards.  Garmany provided his own horse and saddle valued at over 300 dollars. 

  • Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for William N. Garmany, 6th Battalion of Calvary, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, February 21, 2022,  (http://www.fold3.com).
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/31831198/william-newton-garmany : accessed 22 February 2022), memorial page for William Newton Garmany (4 Aug 1826–30 Mar 1910), Find a Grave Memorial ID 31831198, citing Garmany Memorial Gardens, Walker County, Georgia, USA ; Maintained by Whitfield (contributor 47786265) .

J.W.A. Campbell
1843-1921
Wife
Mary E. Payne
1841-1896


John Wiley Adam Campbell’s Find a Grave Memorial states that he served in Company E, 39th Georgia Infantry. There are no records of Campbell in National Archives Compiled Service records nor does his name appear on a roster of this company found in Sartain’s History of Walker County, Georgia. 

  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/31831425/john-wiley_adam-campbell : accessed 22 February 2022), memorial page for John Wiley Adam Campbell (1843–1921), Find a Grave Memorial ID 31831425, citing Garmany Memorial Gardens, Walker County, Georgia, USA ; Maintained by Whitfield (contributor 47786265) .

Monday, February 21, 2022

Singleterry Cemetery

Location:
Georgia Highway 193
Cooper Heights, Walker County, Georgia 
N 34° 49.051   W085° 23.366
Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 37017

Date of Visit: January 5, 2022

Pvt
Hiram G. Mallicoat
Co K
37 Tenn Inf
CSA
1820
1912



Thursday, February 17, 2022

Cove United Methodist Church Cemetery

Location:
State Road 341 (Cove Road)
Walker County, Alabama
N 34° 49.053   W085° 19.693
Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 37332

Date of Visit: January 5, 2022

Pvt
Richard Morgan
Co E
6 Ga Cav
State Guards
CSA

William J Morgan
Co D
39 Ga Inf
CSA

William was the son of Richard Morgan and Mahana Wyatt. In 1915 the Commissioner of Pensions received the following from the Adjutant General McCain: The records show that William Morgan, private, Co D, 39th Georgia, Infantry, C.S.A. , enlisted March 4, 1862; that he was captured at Champion Hill May 16, 1863, and exchanged at City Point, Va, July 6, 1865, and that he deserted November 22, 1863. No later record of him has been found. 

He appears on registers of prisoners at Camp Morton in Indianan and Fort Delaware in Delaware before being exchanged. 

  • Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for William J. Morgan, 39th Georgia Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, February 17, 2022,  (http://www.fold3.com).
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/42858322/william-j-morgan : accessed 17 February 2022), memorial page for William J. Morgan (15 May 1843–11 Jan 1865), Find a Grave Memorial ID 42858322, citing Cove Cemetery, Walker County, Georgia, USA ; Maintained by Whitfield (contributor 47786265) .

Reuben E Massey
Pvt Co G 5 Ga Infantry
Confederate States Army

Reuben died October 2, 1862. According to the Commissioner of Pensions in 1915 Reuben did not appears on any rolls of the company. Company G of the 5th was raised in Schley County. There was a Reuben Massey in Cobb’s Legion, but he died in Arkansas in 1865.
  • Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Reuben E. Massey, 5th Georgia Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, February 17, 2022,  (http://www.fold3.com).


Pvt
Archibald Bonds
Co E
6 Ga Cav
State Guards
CSA

Pvt
James M. Bonds
Co E
6 Ga Cav
State Guards
CSA

Pvt
J.W. Glenn
Co H
39 Ga Inf
1863


John W. Glenn and wife Eliza lived in a cabin on a hill near the Wilder Tower monument on the Chickamauga battlefield.  John left for with the 39th Georgia and died in a Mobile, Alabama hospital some time in 1863.  When battle began in September of 1863 along Chickamauga Creek Union General Rosecrans established his headquarters in the Widow Glenn’s cabin. She and son Avery found their way south to her fathers house near this church. The last night of the battle the cabin caught fire and burned to the ground. The widow Glenn never returned to her and John’s home place. She married W.B. Crumpton. Both are also buried here with John. 

  • James Alfred Sartain, The History of Walker County, Georgia, (Dalton: The A.J. Showalter Company, 1932), 109. Ancestry.com: accessed February 17, 2022. 


In Memory of John Alexander
Son of JC and LW Hall
Born Dec 9 1841
Died April 21, 1862

A John A. Hall mustered into Company E of the 39th Georgia Infantry.  This J.A> Hall was paid at Camp McDowell on March 8, 1862. There are no other records. 

  • Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for J.A. Hall, 39th Georgia Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, February 17, 2022,  (http://www.fold3.com).
  • James Alfred Sartain, The History of Walker County, Georgia, (Dalton: The A.J. Showalter Company, 1932), 138. Ancestry.com: accessed February 17, 2022. 






Wednesday, February 2, 2022

Union Baptist Church Cemetery

Location:
State Highway 106
Madison County, Georgia
N 34° 07.919   W083° 18.224
Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 681620

Date of Visit: October 24, 2017

Robert Carithers
Co B
3 Ga Mil Regt
CSA

David Murray
Co A
24 Ga Inf
CSA

Pvt 
George Henry Mann 
38 Regt Ga Inf
CSA
6 Dec 1846
22 Oct 1924

Elberton Joseph Martin
Pvt Ga Siege Arty
Confederate States army
Jan 25 1843     Apr 26, 1886




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