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.