Van Wert Church Cemetery

Location:

Church Street

Rockmart, Polk County, Georgia

N 33° 59.462   W085° 02.625

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 2202644

Date of Visit: November 28, 2022

A Huddleston York

Pvt Co A 1 Ga Calvary

Confederate States Army

1843     1925

Larkin Blake York

Serb Co A. 1 Ga Calvary

Confederate States Army

June 2 1834      Nov 22 1903

Jasper Newton York

Serg Co A  1 Ga Calvary

Confederate States Army

1837     1867

Hud York, Larkin York, and Jasper York were the sons of Josiah Cowan York & Sarah Virginia Blake. They enlisted in Company A of the 1st Georgia Calvary which was commanded by their brother William Thomas York. William was killed at Battle of Peachtree Creek in 1864. 

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/201623287/william-thomas-york: accessed 11 March 2023), memorial page for CPT William Thomas York (14 Jan 1830–3 Aug 1864), Find a Grave Memorial ID 201623287, citing Old Soldiers Cemetery, Barnesville, Lamar County, Georgia, USA; Maintained by Duckie (contributor 47221306).

Albert W Anderson

Pvt. Co D

Ballentine’s Cat

2 Miss Rangers

CSA

1848

1864 

Albert enlisted in western Tennessee in 1864. In October of 1864 a calvary skirmish occurred near the hamlet of Van Wert in Polk County, Georgia. Albert was in the line of battle and was killed near the church and was buried in the cemetery.

• Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for A.W. Anderson, 2nd Miss. Partisan Rangers, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, March 11, 2023,  (http://www.fold3.com).

• Sons of Confederate Veterans Wayside Marker, Van Wert Church, Van Wert, Polk County, Georgia.

William N. Brumbelow

Cobb’s Legion

Ga Can

CSA

Serg

William J. Clark

Co A

1 Ga Can

CSA

Aug 12 1836

Jan 11 1897

Henry M. Brown

Pvt Co K 18 Ga Infantry

Confederate States Army

Oct 4 1829     Apr 9 1879

WN Strang

1st Lieut Co H 4 Ga Res

Confederate States Army

Sep 7 1827      Aug 17 1901

Strange was appointed 1st Lieutenant in 1864 and then was appointed Assist Quartermaster of the 4th Georgia Reserve regiment. Hw need the war as a prisoner in Montgomery,  Alabama.

• Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for W.N. Strange, 24th Georgia Reserves, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, March 11, 2023,  (http://www.fold3.com).

Pratt City Fraternal Cemetery

Find A Grave Survey

Location:

Sheridan Road

Pratt City, Jefferson  County, Alabama

33.54250 -86.88610

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 22882

Date Completion of Survey: December 1, 2022

Protocol for conducting a Find A Grave Survey:

1. There must be evidence of Confederate service in a picture on the memorial page (VA tombstone, inscription on a non-military tombstone, Confederate flag, Southern Cross of Honor).
2. Confederate soldiers are automatically recorded if they are marked with a VA tombstone.
3. Service of those marked with a Confederate flag or Southern Cross of Honor is are recorded if their service records can be established. 
4. Soldiers whose service is described in their Find a Grave memorial are recorded if the information given can be corroborated. 

This is a survey of Fraternal Cemetery in Pratt City using the Find A Grave memorial page for the cemetery. The cemetery page contains 2950 memorials and 55 % have been photographed. 

Description of Cemetery: At the beginning of the 20th century, the Greenwood Cemetery, formerly known as the Sam Foley Cemetery, adjoined the Pratt Mines Cemetery which was also called the United Mine Workers Cemetery. The combined cemeteries are now known as the Fraternal Cemetery, which is owned by the Fraternal Order of Pratt City. The newer section, originally called the Pratt Mines Cemetery, includes about 13 acres. The older section, known as the Greenwood Cemetery, covers about 1.5 acres and includes about 200 graves on the southwest corner of the lot. The Greenwood Cemetery is in the thick woods to the left of the main entrance. These cemeteries include the graves of English, Scottish, and German immigrants who worked in the Pratt coal mines and other early 20th century industrial operations in this area. (Find A Grave)

2nd Lieut

James S. Atkins

Co H

21 Ga Inf

CSA

Perry Jordan Powell

Jun 4 1841

Jul 8, 1908

Perry served in Company K of the 33rd Alabama Infantry.

• Ancestry.com. Alabama, U.S., Census of Confederate Soldiers, 1907, 1921 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA. Census or Enumeration of Confederate Soldiers Residing in Alabama, 1907-1908. Alabama Department of Archives & History, Montgomery, Alabama. Entry for Perry Jordan Powell.. 

James Martin Poe

Dec. 25, 1845

Sept. 19, 1897

Father

James served in Company I of the 49th Alabama Infantry.

• Alabama, Texas and Virginia, U.S., Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Entry for J.M. Poe, 49th Alabama  Infantry, retrieved from Ancestry.com, February 27, 20231,  (http://www.ancestry.com)

Samuel Coleman “Lum” Perkins

October 10, 1839

March 2, 1906

Lum Perkins served in Company C of the 21st Alabama Infantry. 

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/47849071/samuel-columbus_%22lum%22-perkins: accessed 26 February 2023), memorial page for Samuel Columbus "Lum" Perkins (10 Oct 1839–2 Mar 1906), Find a Grave Memorial ID 47849071, citing Fraternal Cemetery, Pratt City, Jefferson County, Alabama, USA; Maintained by Debbie McPherson (contributor 48520572).

Nathaniel W. Howell

June 18, 1844

Feb. 1, 1824

Nathaniel Wiggins Howell was a member of Company K, 13th Georgia Infantry.

• Alabama, Texas and Virginia, U.S., Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Entry for N.W. Howell, 13^th Georgia  Infantry, retrieved from Ancestry.com, February 26, 20231,  (http://www.ancestry.com)

John Outlaw

John is buried new an Outlaw Family tombstone. He served in Company G, 64th Georgia Infantry. 

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/191686926/john-outlaw: accessed 26 February 2023), memorial page for John Outlaw (12 Nov 1827–12 Feb 1909), Find a Grave Memorial ID 191686926, citing Fraternal Cemetery, Pratt City, Jefferson County, Alabama, USA; Maintained by Outlaw Genealogy (contributor 49413134).

Lorenzon Monroe Lacey

June 7, 1841

July 27, 1930 

From a Birmingham News obituary posted on Find A Graver memorial page::

“…enlisted in the Confederate Army at Seale, Ala., in Company F, Sixth Alabama Regiment, under Capt. Baker and Col. Seibels. He participated in the Battles of the Pines, Seven Days and Bull Run and was taken prisoner July 4, 1863, was confined in Fort Delaware and paroled March, 1865.”

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/79796178/lorenzo-monroe-lacey: accessed 26 February 2023), memorial page for Lorenzo Monroe Lacey (7 Jun 1841–27 Jul 1930), Find a Grave Memorial ID 79796178, citing Fraternal Cemetery, Pratt City, Jefferson County, Alabama, USA; Maintained by Rachel Dobson (contributor 47613669).

Pleasant Hill Baptist Church Cemetery

Location:

Pleasant Hill Road

Rockmart, Polk County, Georgia

N 33° 54.958   W085° 05.365

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 2386772

Date of Visit: November 28, 2022

John J Tolbert

Co G

25 NC Inf

CSA

See Find a Grave Memorial 92306898 for obituaries and pictures. 

Ireland Free Will Baptist Church

Location:

County Road143

Marion County, Alabama

N 34° 09.345   W087° 49.041

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 23634

Date of Visit: November 5, 2022

John B Barnett

Pvt Co D 17 Ala Infantry

Confederate States Army

Nov 29 1826     Feb 10 1927

Birchwood Baptist Church

Location:

State Highway 60

Hamilton County, Tennessee

N 35° 21.755   W084° 59.523

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 24024

Date of Visit: January 17, 2017

Elijah Clingan

Pvt Co I 5 Tenn Cav

Confederate States Army

Oct 13 1825

Mar 8 1900

 

Lower Cemetery (Middle Cemetery)

Location:

State Highway 253

Hackleburg, Marion County, Alabama

N 34° 15.851   W087° 49.642

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 24099

Date of Visit: November 5, 2022

James R. Yielding

Pvt Co C   29 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Mar 23 1832       Jun 17 1922

William R. Whitehead

1822 1900

Served in Company B of the 5th Alabama Cavalry.

• Alabama, Texas and Virginia, U.S., Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Entry for W.R. Whitehead, 5th Alabama Calvary and 19th Alabama Infantry, retrieved from Ancestry.com, October 3, 2021,  (http://www.ancestry.com)

Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery

Location:

State Highway 172

Marion County, Alabama

N 34° 18.350   W087° 54.599

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 24700

Date of Visit: November 5, 2022

Henry Caldwell

Pvt Co L   2 SC Rifles

Confederate States Army

1816    1911

Lindsey Cemetery

Location:

County Road 53

Marion County, Alabama

N 34° 18.127   W087° 51.904

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 24024

Date of Visit: November 5, 2022

Winston Dilmus Stidham II

Co B.  5 Ala Cav

Confederate States Army

Jul 2 1838     Apr 8 1912

Blue Springs Cemetery

Blue Springs Cemetery

Location:

Main Street

Mosheim, Greene County, Tennessee

36.18995, -82.95802

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 822618

Date of Completion of Survey: December 4, 2022

This is a survey of Blue Springs Cemetery in Mosheim, Tennessee using the Find A Grave memorial page for the cemetery. The cemetery page contains 435 memorials and 92 % has been photographed. 

It is also known as Blue Springs Lutheran Church Cemetery and it was established in 1811. Fifteen Union veterans are also buried in this cemetery. Protocol used for conducting a Find A Grave Survey:

• There must be evidence of Confederate service in a picture on the memorial page (VA tombstone, inscription on a non-military tombstone, Confederate flag, Southern Cross of Honor).
• Confederate soldiers are automatically recorded if they are marked with a VA tombstone.\
• Service of those marked with a Confederate flag or Southern Cross of Honor is are recorded if their service records can be established. 
• Soldiers whose service is described in their Find a Grave memorial are recorded if the information given can be corroborated. 

Captain J.D. Bushong

Born

Dec 17, 1840

Died From Gun Shot

April 4, 1865

At Rest

Capt. Jackson Decatur Bushong

Co I 29th Tennessee Infantry CSA

Ambushed and Killed By Bush Wackers

Five Days Before the End of the Civil War

April 4th 1865 in Lost Mountain

John Hunt Morgan Camp 205

Captain Jack Dick Bushong enlisted as a private in Company I at Henderson’s on August 21, 1861. He would serve as Captain served as Captain of Company I in the 29th Tennessee Infantry. He was severely wounded at Stone River and again twice during the 1864 battles around Atlanta. He was killed in 1865 in Greene County at Lost Mountain. See the Phelps/Fup/Volp Family History website for the story of Captain Bushong’s death in 1865. 

• Phelps/Fup/Volp Family History https://www.phelpsfulpancestry.com/documents/Bushwhacked.pdf
• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Tennessee.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for J.D. Bushong,  29th Tennessee, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, December 2, 2022,  (http://www.fold3.com).

F.W. Cobble

Oct. 24, 1826

Dec.19, 1908

Fredrick Washington Cobble was marked by a Confederate flag. Cobble enlisted in Captain J.W. Jackson’s Greene company on October 4, 1862. This company eventually became Company C of the 61st Tennessee Mounted Infantry. In March of 1863 he was appointed 2nd Sergeant. On May 17, 1863 he was captured at Big Black Swamp during the Vicksburg Siege. He was sent to Fort Delaware where he would be paroled and exchanged. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Tennessee.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for F.W. Cobble,  61st Tennessee, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, December 2, 2022,  (http://www.fold3.com).

George A. Trobaugh

July 30, 1836 – July 19, 1902

His Wife

Hannah E. Trobaugh

George enlisted in Company C of the 61st Tennessee Mounted Infantry. In May of 1863 he was captured at Big Black Swamp and apparently sent north as a POW. In the summer he enlisted in Company A of the Union 8th Tennessee Cavalry in Indianapolis for three years. He served in several hospitals as a cook until the end of the war.   

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Tennessee.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for G.A. Trobaughe,  61st Tennessee, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, December 2, 2022,  (http://www.fold3.com).

Mount Hermon Presbyterian Church

Location:

Commerce Street

Ila, Madison County, Georgia

N 34° 10.434   W083° 17.791

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 2267521

Date of Visit: October 24, 2017

William Lloyd 

Smith 

Born 

Nov. 24, 1836

Died

Mar. 15, 1910

Marked with a Southern Cross of Honor. 

He served in company A of 16th Georgia Infantry. He was captured twice and ended the war in Ohio. 

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/129640382/william-loyd-smith: accessed 17 November 2022), memorial page for William Loyd Smith (24 Nov 1836–15 Mar 1910), Find a Grave Memorial ID 129640382, citing Mount Hermon Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Ila, Madison County, Georgia, USA; Maintained by Marc Haynes (contributor 47766702) .

Wiley 

Yarbrough

Born

Dec 25 1840

Died

Jan 30, 1901

Marked with a Southern Cross of Honor.

He served in Company G of the 43rd Georgia Infantry. 

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15842875/wiley-yarbrough: accessed 17 November 2022), memorial page for Wiley Yarbrough (25 Dec 1840–30 Jan 1901), Find a Grave Memorial ID 15842875, citing Mount Hermon Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Ila, Madison County, Georgia, USA; Maintained by David Soward (contributor 46865531) .

Brewersville Cemetery

Location:

Christian Valley Church

State Highway 28

Brewersville, Sumter County, Alabama

N 32° 31.110   W088° 05.727

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 21785

Date of Visit: July 13, 2019

Joseph Graham

Alabama

Pvt Co K  40 Regt Ala Inf

Civil War

Nov 25 1840    Feb 16 1919

William Larkin

Corp Co B

Ala Corps of Cadets

Confederate States army

Aug 22 1845  Sep 8, 1920

John Robert Larkin

Alabama

1st Lt Co I 38 Regt Ala In

Confederate States army

June 4 1841   May 20, 1926

John R.Lee

Born

Jan 14 1831

Died

Dec 6 1861

In April of 1861 John R. Lee enlisted in the service of the Confederate Army. He was 1st Lieutenant in Blount’s Company F “Sumter Rifle Guards” of the 5th Alabama Infantry regiment. In May the regiment moved to Pensacola and then on to near Manassas Junction in Virginia. In September Captain Blount resigned and Lee was promoted to Captain. At the time of the October muster Lieutenant Lee was sick in the hospital in Richmond. He died of typhoid fever at Union Mills on December 5, 1861 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for John R. Lee, 5th Alabama Infantry , Retrieved from at 3-Fold, October 31, 2022.  (http://www.fold3.com).

• Brewer, Willis. 1962. Brief Historical Sketches of Military Organizations Raised In Alabama During the Civil War : reproduced from Willis Brewer's Alabama: her history, resources, war record, and public men, from 1540 to 1872 (1872) Montgomery, Alabama: Alabama Civil War Centennial Commission. Kindle

Colonel Ezekiel Slocum Gulley

Tombstone Inscription: 

Our Father

Ezekiel Slocum

Gulley

Col. Of 40th Ala

Reg. C.S.A.

Born in

Wayne County, NC

Sep. 26, 1831

Died In

Sumter Co. Ala.

Sept 17, 1896

At 30 years of age Gulley mustered in to the Confederate service on March 4 1862. He was elected Captain of Company A of the 40th Alabama Infantry Regiment. Eventually he was promoted to Major. Major Gulley spent ten days in the 1st Mississippi Hospital in Jackson, Mississippi with anasarca. Anasarca is an abnormal accumulation of fluid in tissues and cavities of the body, resulting in swelling, related to renal or cardiopulmonary issues. In May of 1864 Colonel Thomas Stone died of pneumonia and Gulley was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel of the 40th Alabama. After the Battle of Bentonville in 1865 the 40th was consolidated into the 19th Alabama under Colonel M.L. Wood in Pettus’ Brigade of Carter Stevenson’s Division At some point Gulley commanded this regiment.  Carolina Campaign of 1865 he commanded the 19th Alabama. 

• Brewer, Willis. 1962. Brief Historical Sketches of Military Organizations Raised In Alabama During the Civil War : reproduced from Willis Brewer's Alabama: her history, resources, war record, and public men, from 1540 to 1872 (1872) Montgomery, Alabama: Alabama Civil War Centennial Commission. Kindle

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for E.S. Gulley, 40th Alabama Infantry , Retrieved from at 3-Fold, October 31, 2022.  (http://www.fold3.com).

• The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (128 vol., Washington: Printing Office, 1880-1901), Ser.1 Vol. 47, Part I, 1065, Organization of the Confederate Forces, commanded by General Joseph E. Johnston.

• Willett, Elbert Decatur, 1828-1890, and Joseph Jackson Willett. History of Company B (originally Pickens Planters) 40th Alabama Regiment: Confederate States Army, 1862 to 1865. [n.p.]: Colonial Press, 1963.

Colonel Gulley’s Kepi at Auction in 2012