Robert's Cemetery

US 27

Miller County, Georgia

31.24190, -84.79030

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 36633

Date of Visit: July 5, 2026

Stephen Houston

Co. K

51 Ga. Inf. 

C.S.A.

Isham O. Sheffield 

Pvt Co E 55 Ga Regt

Confederate States Army

Jun 8 1834     Nov 14 1885

The following men were marked with Confederate Battle Flags:

Charles G. Roberts

James Roberts

Marton V Newberry - Martin VanBuren Newberry served in Company E, 1st Regiment, Georgia State Troops and Company E, 55th Georgia Infantry. He was captured at the Battle of Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. He was a POW Camp Douglas in Chicago, Illinois.

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43886215/martin_vann_b-newberry: accessed July 16, 2026), memorial page for Corp Martin Vann B. Newberry (1 Nov 1842–26 Nov 1903), Find a Grave Memorial ID 43886215, citing Roberts Cemetery, Miller County, Georgia, USA; Maintained by Tom Benefield (contributor 47122996).

Usual J. Bush - Company E 55th Georgia Infantry CSA

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/57778665/usual_james-bush: accessed July 16, 2026), memorial page for Usual James Bush (22 Nov 1828–21 Jul 1884), Find a Grave Memorial ID 57778665, citing Roberts Cemetery, Miller County, Georgia, USA; Maintained by archermillers (contributor 49917319).

W.S. Bush - Co G, 13th Georgia Infantry

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/41915952/william_smiley-bush: accessed July 16, 2026), memorial page for William Smiley Bush (8 Jan 1845–7 Jun 1912), Find a Grave Memorial ID 41915952, citing Roberts Cemetery, Miller County, Georgia, USA; Maintained by Kim Houston Orrick (contributor 46958799).

S. Scott - Stephen Scott served Company K, 31st Georgia Infantry. Due to a ulcer on his hand he was discharged on May 10, 1862.

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/66298156/stephen-scott: accessed July 16, 2026), memorial page for Stephen Scott (28 Dec 1833–2 Apr 1885), Find a Grave Memorial ID 66298156, citing Roberts Cemetery, Miller County, Georgia, USA; Maintained by Kim Houston Orrick (contributor 46958799).

James T. Shepard - Company H, 4th Georgia Reserve

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/66357010/james_t-sheppard: accessed July 16, 2026), memorial page for James T Sheppard (27 Dec 1848–5 Sep 1881), Find a Grave Memorial ID 66357010, citing Roberts Cemetery, Miller County, Georgia, USA; Maintained by Becky Steele (contributor 47315441).

Henry J. Roberts - Captain Campbell's Independent Company, Georgia Siege Artillery

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43662298/henry_jack-roberts: accessed July 16, 2026), memorial page for Henry Jack Roberts (3 Feb 1816–3 Dec 1879), Find a Grave Memorial ID 43662298, citing Roberts Cemetery, Miller County, Georgia, USA; Maintained by Tom Benefield (contributor 47122996).

Bethesda Baptist Church Cemetery #2

Location:
School House Road
Gordon County, Georgia
34.52949, -84.81825
Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 2290431

Date of Visit: October 15, 2010 (multiple visits)

William R. Roe

Pvt Co L 36 Ga Inf

Confederate States Army

Mar 9 1836  Sept 23 1906

G.S.Ray

Born

Sept. 16, 1834

Died

Sept. 29, 1901

George Sidney Ray enlisted in 1862 in Captain Collins Company of Crawford’s Regiment of Georgia Calvary. This company became Company G of the 3rd Georgia Calvary. In the fall of 1863 he was detailed as a courier for General Johnson. He was captured in Gordon County in June of 1864 and sent to Military Prison in Louisville, Kentucky where he signed an oath of allegiance and agreed to remain north of the Ohio River. 

• Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Sidney George Ray and George S. Ray, 3rd Georgia Calvary. Retrieved from at 3-Fold, March 10, 2026,  (http://www.fold3.com).
• U.S., Civil War Prisoner of War Records, 1861-1865, National Archives at Washington DC; Washington, DC. USA; War Department Collection of Confederate Records; NARA film publicaton #:: M598; Record Group: War Department Collection of Confederate Records; Record Group Number: 109.

In Memory of Niccless Moss

Who Was Born

December 15, 1833

Departed this life 1862

Died a Soldier

Niccless Moss enlisted in Captain Collin's Company of Crawford's Georgia Calvary regiment in Calhoun. This company became Company G in the 3rd Georgia Calvary regiment. In October of 1861 he was reported present but sick on muster rolls. How he died a soldier is not known. The regiment was with Wheeler in Kentucky in 1862.

• Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Nicolas Moss, 3rd Georgia Calvary. Retrieved from at 3-Fold, March 10, 2026,  (http://www.fold3.com).

Gilbert Moss enlisted in Company D of the 8th Georgia Battalion of Inftranty on October 11, 1861. This regiment was organized in Savannah and remained on duty in that area until 1863. Gilbert was present for the May and June 1862 muster roll.  It is reported that he died July 9, 1862 at Beaulieu on a record of the property of descended Confederate soldiers. Beaulieu was a plantation a sea island cotton planter John Schley. The plantation was located 12 miles below Savannah on the Vernon River. A battery was set up on the plantation. While there was sporadic action during this time in the area it is likely that Gilbert died of disease. 

• Lulie Pitts, History of Gordon County, Georgia (Calhoun, GA: Press of Calhoun Times, 1933), 138.
• Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Gilbert Moss, 8th Georgia Battalion of Infantry. Retrieved from at 3-Fold, March 10, 2026,  (http://www.fold3.com).
• Hyrene Hideway - Beulieu During the Civil War (Webpage) Re-Purpose Savannah, https://www.repurposesavannah.org/hyrnehideaway

Lewis Moss

Born

Feb. 7 1828

Died

Nov 24 1863

Lewis likely joined Company D of the 8th Georgia Battalion of Infantry in Calhoun in October of 1861. In February of 1862 he was appointed 4th Sergeant. He admitted to a hospital in Mississippi on August 18, 1863.  It is reported that he died in Gordon County on November 24, 1863. No cause of death is given. 

• Lulie Pitts, History of Gordon County, Georgia (Calhoun, GA: Press of Calhoun Times, 1933), 138.
• Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Lewis Moss, 8th Georgia Battalion of Infantry. Retrieved from at 3-Fold, March 10, 2026,  (http://www.fold3.com).
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/74794693/gilbert-moss: accessed March 12, 2026), memorial page for Gilbert Moss (13 Jan 1827–8 Jul 1862), Find a Grave Memorial ID 74794693, citing Bethesda Baptist Church Cemetery #2, Red Bud, Gordon County, Georgia, USA; Maintained by LMoss (contributor 47499632).
• Photograph provided to Find A Grave Memorial by Ron Fuller.

Moss Family of Gordon County: Lewis Moss and Gilbert Moss were the sons of Ephraim and Nancy Moss. Johnson Moss and Niccless Moss were the sons of Niccleus, Senior and Passy Moss. Niccless, Senior and Ephraim were likely brothers. 

Providence United Methodist Church

Location:

Canyon Road
Stewart County, Georgia
32.07080, - 84.91110
Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 36467

Date of Visit: January 6, 2026

Wright Yelvington

Co E

31 Regt 

Ga Inf

CSA

Sgt

Michael T Duskin

Co K

2 Ga Inf

CSA

Robert Worthington

Co A

3 Ark Inf

CSA

Wilbur F Day

Co I

64 Ga Inf

CSA

Pvt BB Wheeler

Co H

55 Ga Inf

CSA

Mar 4 1844

Feb 26 1890

F.M. Bass

Co C

46 Ga Reg

Bass enlisted in 1863 in the 46th Georgia Infantry. He died in a skirmish near Atlanta on August 9, 1864.  

• Henderson, Lilian, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia 1861-1865, Volume 4, Longino & Porteer, Hapeville, 1960, page 988, Hathi Trust (https://babel.hathitrust.org/), accessed January 15, 2026.

• Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for F.M. Bass,46th Georgia Infantry. Retrieved from at 3-Fold, January 9, 2026,  (http://www.fold3.com).

Williamson E.

Perkins

Jan 27 1820

Killed in the Battle of 

Griswoldville

It is possible that Williamson enlisted late in the war in the 3rd Georgia Infantry Reserve at Camp Sumter (Andersonville). Part of this militia-type unit was sent to Macon and Camp Lawton. They may have been present at the battle of Griswoldville on November 22, 1864 in Jones County. 

• Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for William Perkins, 3rd Georgia Reserve, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, January 9, 2026,  (http://www.fold3.com).

Thomas J Sherman

Co E

3 Ga Cav

Confederate States Army

June 3 1843   Jan 6 1933

R.H.W. (Riley Hill Waller)

His headstone is broken and his name and date of death is gone. R.H.W. on his footstone. He served in Co.A 3rd Regiment Georgia Cavalry. 

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/28181308/riley_hill-waller: accessed January 15, 2026), memorial page for Riley Hill Waller (7 May 1824–9 Oct 1889), Find a Grave Memorial ID 28181308, citing Providence United Methodist Church Cemetery, Lumpkin, Stewart County, Georgia, USA; Maintained by Sons of Confederate Veterans (contributor 51152750).
• Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for R.H. Waller, 3rd Georgia Calvary Retrieved from at 3-Fold, January 15, 2026,  (http://www.fold3.com).

George Whitton Keith

George rests behind a stone that only reads George. George Keith enlisted in Company G 27th Georgia Infantry in 1861. He marched north to Virginia with the regiment. He served as a musician. Upon reaching Virginia he fell ill and was furloughed to return home sick. He died on or about July 155, 1862 in North Carolina. 

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/27773249/george_w-keith: accessed January 15, 2026), memorial page for George W. Keith Jr. (22 May 1862–20 Dec 1862), Find a Grave Memorial ID 27773249, citing Providence United Methodist Church Cemetery, Lumpkin, Stewart County, Georgia, USA; Maintained by: Find a Grave.

• Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for George W. Keith, 27th Georgia Infantry. Retrieved from at 3-Fold, January 15, 2026,  (http://www.fold3.com).

Springhill Cemetery

Location:
Bonner Chapel Road
Walker County, Alabama
33.97780 -87.56420
Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 26415

Date of Visit: December 9, 2025

Nathaniel M Smith

Co F

20 Ala Inf

CSA

1830  1911

Shiloh Baptist Church Cemetery

Location:
US Highway 80
Crawford, Russell County, Alabama
32.44072, -85.29199
Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 1124767

Date of Visit: July 25, 2015

Elias Chadwick

Pvt Co D 45 Ala Inf

Confederate Staates Army

Dec 26, 1836  Jan 11 1902