Garden of Memories Cemetery (AKA Ragland Methodist Church Cemetery)

Location:

Church Street

Ragland, St. Clair County, Alabama

N 33° 44.3962   W086° 09.3655

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 22951

Date of Visit: April 21, 2024

Pvt

Oakley

Brown

Co D

21 Ala Inf

CSA

Apr 20 1824   May 26 1901

William T. Morris

Pvt Co F

Young's Btry Ga Arty

Confederate States Army

Oct 16 1846.   Apr 18, 1926

I.M. Sims

Reg 42 Co G CSA

This is not a VA Confederate tombstone. Ignatious Sims was a member of Company G of the 42nd Alabama Infantry. He was captured and paroled twice during the war. Likely at Corinth and at Vicksburg. He served to the end of the war.

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Ignatious Sims, 42nd^h Alabama Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, June 23, 2024,  (http://www.fold3.com).

Box Cemetery

Location:

Old Nashville Road

Ragland, St.Clair County, Alabama

N 33° 44.5501'   W086° 10.3216'

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 21743

Date of Visit: April 21, 2024

Pvt

J.B. Ingram

Co D

51 Ala Inf

CSA

Aug 25, 1833

Henry Hudson Stokes

Co G

4 SC Regt

CSA

Dec 13 1840

Feb 5 1926

FM Higginbotham

Co D

42 Ala Ind

CSA

Thomas Higginbothum

Co D

25 Ala

CSA

John W Davis

Co C

18 Ala Inf

CSA

Mar 12 1843  Oct 2 1906

John Randall Ramsey

Co K

18 Ga Inf

CSA

Frank Harrison

Co A

51 Ala Cav

CSA

July 17 1844

Apr 17 1921

Samuel S. Higginbothum - CSA Flag

1841 - 1911 

Samuel was a member of Company E of the 51st Alabama Calvary (Partisan Rangers).

• Alabama, Texas and Virginia, U.S., Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Entry for S.S. Higginbothum 51st Alabama Calvary, retrieved from Ancestry.com, June 23, 20241,  (http://www.ancestry.com)

James B. Henderson - CSA Flag

1829-1898

Henderson was a member of Company D of the 10th Alabama Infantry. He enlisted in 1861 and was elected 2nd lieutenant. Over the course of the war he spent several stretches of time sick in hospitals. He also was detailed as a hospital steward in Richmond at one time. He was palled as a private in Virginia in 1865.

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for James B. Henderson, 10th Alabama Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, June 233, 2024,  (http://www.fold3.com).

Pippen Family Cemetery

Pippen Cemetery

Find A Grave Survey

Location:

Middlebrooks Dr. 

Jones  County, Georgia

33° 5.256'N   83° 44.8566'W

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 2505008

Date Completion of Survey: October 6, 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 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 Pippen Family Cemetery in Jones County, Georgia using the Find A Grave memorial page for the cemetery. The cemetery page contains 3 memorials. There are no photographs. 

Description of Cemetery: Small family cemetery has only one marked grave; however, there is one stone pile mausoleum and markers and other evidence many other graves. Located on private property (Watts) you have to have permission to view it. The property is near the Jarrell Plantation. Dist. 12 Land Lot 183 (Find A Grave Memorial 2505008)

On September 18, 2022 Robert Watts posted a picture of Green Pippens VA headstone on Facebook page Forgotten Cemeteries of Georgia.

Green Pippen

Co A

3 Ga Res

CSA

Springhill UMC Cemetery

State Highway 272

Campbellton, Franklin County, Florida

N 30° 53.98992'   W085° 27.3381'

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 2317154

Date of Visit: July 21, 2024

Stephen Pennington

Pvt Co G

6 Ga Inf

Confederate States Army

Mau 10 1838     Dec 2 1915

Willoughby Miles

Co A. 2 Fla Cav

Confederate States Army

Sep 20 1835    Jan 16 1918

Andrew Franklin McCrary

Pvt Co A 2 Fla Cav

Confederate States Army

June 3 1839      Mar 28 1916

Wright J Miles

Pvt Capt Poe's Co.

1st Fl Reserves

Confederate States Army

Apr 4 1850.    May 23 1923

Pvt 

Japhet P Thompson

Co B

2 Fla Inf

CSA

1841

1919