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Monday, October 6, 2025

Myrtlewood Cemetery


Location:

McKee Street

Livingston, Sumter County, Alabama

N 32.57965  W088.18738 

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 871191


Date of Visit: October 17, 2015


Note: Robert D. Spratt listed 81 Confederate veterans buried in Myrtlewood. I located the graves of 25 veterans.


  • Spratt, Robert D.,  A History of Livingston, Alabama (Livingston: Sumter County Historical Society, 1928) 175.


Malachi Daniel Gould

Co F

5 Ala Cav

CSA

Jun 1 1846

July 20, 1924


T.E. Lockhard

Phelan’s Battery

CSA

1845-1929



John Louis Brown


Headstone:

John Louis

Son of Louis L & Amarath Parker

Brown

Born at

Sumterville, Ala 1841

Died At 

Livingston, Ala

May 22, 1917


Ledger Stone:

He was a Lieutenant of Calvary with Hampton’s Brigade in Virginia.



Robert Saunders Mason

Aug 23, 1840

June 6, 1923

First Lieutenant Company D

Stuarts Calvary



Sacred to the Memory of

Capt Ben B. Little

Who was born in Edgecomb City N.C.

Jany 25th 1831

Killed Aug 31, 1864

At the Battle of Jonesboro, GA

Aged 33 yrs.


Ben B. Little was elected Captain of Company G of the 22nd Alabama Infantry in the summer of 1863. This company was raised in Randolph County, Alabama. He commanded the company through the Atlanta Campaign.  On July 28 the 22nd Alabama took part in the Battle of Jonesboro. Captain Whitney report of July 30th states that 2 officers were killed - Colonel Hart and 2nd Lieutenant Stackpoole.  It is likely that Ben was wounded and died two days after Whitney penned his report. 


  • Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Ben B. Little, 22nd Alabama, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, September 28, 2025  (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. 38, Part 3, 77, Report of Capt. Isaac Whitney, July 30, 1864.


The following men are marked by the iron Southern Cross of Honor:



Paul Emmet

Son of

F.P. & A Evans

Died 

Jan. 19, 1869

Aged 27 Yrs. 9 Months


Paul E. Evans enlisted in the Sumter Mounted Guards at age 19. This company was received into service June 29, 1861 as Company D of the Jeff Davis Legion. Paul mustered into as 4th Sergeant, but was discharged in August due to a disability. In 1863 he enlisted in Company I of the 51st Alabama Partisan Rangers in Gainesville, Alabama. For most of the year he served as a nurse in a hospital in Catoosa Springs, Georgia. 


  • Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Mississippi.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Paul E. Evans, Jeff Davis Legion, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, October 2, 2025,  (http://www.fold3.com).
  • Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Paul E. Evans, 51st Alabama Calvary, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, October 2, 2025,  (http://www.fold3.com).


Jesse Bell Coleman

Jun 7 1839 -July 10, 1892


Coleman was a member of Company A of the 36th Alabama Infantry. He served as a teamster throughout the war. He surrendered in Meridian, Mississippi in 1865.


  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/28380254/jesse-bell-coleman: accessed 20 January 2024), memorial page for Jesse Bell Coleman (7 Jun 1839–10 Jul 1892), Find a Grave Memorial ID 28380254, citing Myrtlewood Cemetery, Livingston, Sumter County, Alabama, USA; Maintained by SWF (contributor 47026053).
  • Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Jesse B. Coleman, 36th Alabama, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, January 20, 2024,  (http://www.fold3.com).




Solon L. Sharard


Solon served in Company G of the 5th Alabama Infantry Regiment. He enlisted in Dents Company in Livingston on April 15, 1861.  In 1864 he was a regimental drummer. His name appears on a roll of soldiers  surrendered at Appomattox Court House in 1865. 


Solon's name appears on the Confederate Memorial Statue on the courthouse lawn at Livingston in Sumter County, Alabama.  The inscription for is service is Co G 8th Ala. 


  • Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Solon L. Sherrard, 36th Alabama, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, January 20, 2024,  (http://www.fold3.com).



Boanerges Clay Hunter

Born In Logan Co. Ky.

Feb. 22, 1842

Did in Livingston, Ala

Oct 22,1922


Hunter enlisted in Company K of the 1st Kentucky on May 30, 1861. He served until July 1862. He re-enlisted in Company C of the 7th Kentucky Mounted Infantry in Mississippi in September of 1863. He was detached to Captain Nobles of the Quartermaster Department in Meridian, Mississippi. He served in the military Post Office and he took extended trips around the region delivering requested materials. In 1865 he was admitted to Way Hospital in Meridian with a unspecified wound. 


  • Alabama, U.S., Census of Confederate Soldiers, 1907, 1921 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Entry for Boanerges Clay Hunter, retrieved from Ancestry.com, September 27, 2025,  (http://www.ancestry.com)
  • Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Clay Hunter, 7th Kentucky Mounted Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, September 27, 2025,  (http://www.fold3.com).



Robert Barnett Spratt 

1847-1864


Robert B. Spratt, a son of Robert D. Spratt, enlisted in the Orleans Light Horse in April of 1864. According to Spratt Robert became ill and died without seeing action. The Orleans Light Horse served as General Leonidas Polk's escort until his death in 1864 and then as escort for Polk's successors until the end of the war. 

  • Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Robert Barnett Spratt, Orleans Light Horse, Louisiana Calvary, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, September 27, 2025,  (http://www.fold3.com).
  • Spratt, Robert D.,  A History of Livingston, Alabama (Livingston: Sumter County Historical Society, 1928) 50.



Capt. W.R. DeLoach 

June 4

1842

Aug. 5, 1910


William R. DeLoach joined Confederate service in August of 1861. He served in Company G of the 5th Alabama Infantry in Virginia. He was badly wounded while climbing Federal breastworks in Sharpsburg in 1862. He was wounded again on November 27, 1863 leading a charge at the Battle of Mine Run.  He was admitted into C.S.A. General Hospital in Charlottesville, Virginia on December 2. After recuperation from the wound he joined General Nathan Forrest's calvary in Alabama. He may have been a aide-de-camp to Josiah Patterson of the 5th Alabama Calvary or he may have served Captain of an independent company. At some point he was captured and sent to Johnson Island, Ohio. 





George W Williams 

Sept 29, 1844

Oct 22, 1921


Williams was a private in Company A of the 40th Alabama Infantry. He took part in the battles at Vicksburg, Jackson, Chattanooga, and Lookout Mountain. He was paroled after being captured. At Vicksburg. He was wounded at Lookout Mountain and was captured again on November 24, 1863. He spent 16 months in prison at Rock Island Illinois. 

  • Alabama, U.S., Census of Confederate Soldiers, 1907, 1921 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Entry for George Washington Williams, retrieved from Ancestry.com, October 2, 2025,  (http://www.ancestry.com).
  • Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for George W. Williams,  40th Alabama Infrantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, October 2, 2025,  (http://www.fold3.com).




S.B. Turk

Aug. 19, 1841

May 18, 1922


Samuel B Turk was from Adair County, Kentucky. He mustered in Company F of the 4th Kentucky Infantry. Fought at Shiloh, Vicksburg, Baton Rouge, Murfreesboro, Jackson, and Chickamauga. He deserted at Ckickamuga, but returned to duty. He sick and absent throughout most of 1864. He was paroled in Jackson, Mississippi. 

  • Alabama, U.S., Census of Confederate Soldiers, 1907, 1921 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Entry for S.B. Turk, retrieved from Ancestry.com, October 2, 2025,  (http://www.ancestry.com).
  • Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for S B. Turk ,  4th Kentucky Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, October 2, 2025,  (http://www.fold3.com).


Our Father

John Jackson

Born

April 19, 1837

Died

Jan 18, 1915


There are three John Jacksons living in Sumter County who were Confederate Soldiers.

John Jackson that was born in 1837 lived in Livingston and was married to Eliza Blakney. He enlisted in 1861 in Blount’s Company in Livingston. This company became Company F of the 5th Alabama Infantry and moved to the Army of Northern Virginia in May of 1861. In 1862 the regiment was re-organized and the company became Company E. Jackson re-enlisted as a sharpshooter. He served until the end of the war when he was captured neared Petersburg and sent to Point Lookout in Maryland. 


  • Alabama, U.S., Census of Confederate Soldiers, 1907, 1921 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Entry for John Jackson, retrieved from Ancestry.com, October 14, 2023,  (http://www.ancestry.com
  • Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for John Jackson, 5th Alabama, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, November 10, 2023,  (http://www.fold3.com).
  • Spratt, Robert D.,  A History of Livingston, Alabama (Livingston: Sumter County Historical Society, 1928) 35.


Zack Tureman

CSA


Truman enlisted in Captain Dent’s Sumter County company in April of 1861. This company became Company B of the 5th Alabama Infantry regiment. The regiment was sent to Virginia in May. In April of 1862 Truman was discharged from the army due to a disabled left arm. He suffered a severe break of his left arm while engaged on building breastworks with a pick. His pension application stat that he had no use of this arm. 

  • Alabama, Texas and Virginia, U.S., Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Entry for Zack Truman, 7t5 Alabama Infantry, retrieved from Ancestry.com, October 3, 2021,  (http://www.ancestry.com)
  • Brewer, Willis Brief Historical Sketches of Military Organizations Raised In Alabama During the Civil War (Tuscaloosa:Alabama Civil War Centennial Commission, 1962), 596


James T. Cobb

Born in Raleigh

Oct 22 1830

Died Mobile

June 9 1889


There are no CSA records for Judge Cobb. Spratt lists him as a Confederate veteran buried at Myrtlewood. 

  • Spratt, Robert D.,  A History of Livingston, Alabama (Livingston: Sumter County Historical Society, 1928) 175


W.A. Murley

CSA


Wellington Ayre Marley enlisted in Company D of the 2nd Battalion of Light Alabama Artillery in 1862. This unit is also known as Singstaks Artillery. The entire unit was captured and paroled at Vicksburg in 1863. After parol the company was taken in my Barrett’s Missouri Artillery and was active in the Atlanta campaign in 1864.  It is likely the during battles of Atlanta Wellington was killed in battle. His fathers 1868 obituary stated that his only son was killed at Atlanta in August of  1864 while “…defending his native South.”


  • Brewer, Willis Brief Historical Sketches of Military Organizations Raised In Alabama During the Civil War (Tuscaloosa:Alabama Civil War Centennial Commission, 1962), 649.
  • Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for W.A. Murley, 2nd Battalion, Light Artillery, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, October 22, 2023,  (http://www.fold3.com).
  • “Stephen Wellington Murley (Obituary)” The Livingston Journal, May 23, 1868, p. 2, https://www.newspapers.com/image/356197037/


Samuel Henry Sprott

Born 

Sumter Co. Alabama

June 24, 1840

Died 

Walker County, Alabama

April 12, 1916

C.S.A.


Sprott enrolled in Captain Gulley’s Company as 3rd Sergent on March 17, 1862. He was 22 years old at the time. This company became Company A of the 40th Alabama Infantry. 

On November 20, 1863 Sprott was elected 2nd Lieutenant of the company. This election came after the regiment’s surrender and while stationed on Missionary Ridge in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Administrative notes and paperwork in his file indicate he remained with the company until the end of the war. 

  • Brewer, Willis Brief Historical Sketches of Military Organizations Raised In Alabama During the Civil War (Tuscaloosa:Alabama Civil War Centennial Commission, 1962), 700.
  • Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Samuel H. Sprott, 40th Alabama, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, October 17, 2023,  (http://www.fold3.com).

Ben F. Herr

May 16, 1830

Nov 17 1880


Captain Herr was living in Missouri at the outbreak of the war. He joined the Confederacy in this state as an officer in the 1st Battalion of Infantry, 1 Division, of Missouri State Guard. He ended in in Livingston after being paroled after a capture. He reenlisted a served in the 1st Confederate Regiment as an officer and adjutant. In 1864 he served as a quartermaster in Demopolis, Alabama. 




L.A. Cockrell 1839-1922

Leonidas A. Cockrell listed in Company G of the 44th Alabama in Selma on May 22, 1862. He was paroled at Appomattox Court House. 


  • Alabama, U.S., Census of Confederate Soldiers, 1907, 1921 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Entry for Leonidas A. Cockrell, retrieved from Ancestry.com, October 14, 2023,  (http://www.ancestry.com



John Sprott  1837-1874

Sprott a native of Ireland enlisted in Company K, 40th Alabama Infantry in April of 1862. By June he was eligible for discharge due to disability brought on by measles and bronchitis. Late in the war he appears on the roll of the Invalid Corp in Mobile. 


  • Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Robert W Ennis, 40th Alabama, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, October 12, 2023,  (http://www.fold3.com).


Robert Washington Ennis 1842-1918

Ennis served in Company A of the 36th Alabama Infantry. 


  • Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Robert W Ennis, 36th Alabama, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, October 9, 2023,  (http://www.fold3.com).


WD Battle, Jr. 1845-1917


William David Battle enlisted in Captain Singstakes battery of artillery. His company has been identified as Company D of the 2nd Battalion of Light Alabama Artillery and Company D of Hallonquist’s Battalion of Light Artillery. The Battery was captured on July 4, 1863 at Vicksburg. After being paroled the men of Singstake’s Battery was assigned to Barrett’s Missouri Light Artillery. This battery served in Waddell’s Artillery Battalion until the end of the war.


  • Alabama, U.S., Census of Confederate Soldiers, 1907, 1921 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Entry for William David Battle, retrieved from Ancestry.com, October 9, 2023,  (http://www.ancestry.com
  • Brewer, Willis Brief Historical Sketches of Military Organizations Raised In Alabama During the Civil War (Tuscaloosa:Alabama Civil War Centennial Commission, 1962), 700.
  • Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for William David Battle, 2nd Battalion Light Artillery, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, October 9, 2023,  (http://www.fold3.com).



Capt Reuben Chapman  1833-1902


Reuben Chapman was elected Captain of Company H of the 11th Alabama Infntratry on June 11, 1861 in Pickens County. He resigned his position June 16, 1862 due to ill health. In. His letter of resignation he described being attacked by a "disease of the Bowles" that had rendered him unfit for duty. 

  • Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Reuben Chapman, 11th Alabama Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, October 9, 2023,  (http://www.fold3.com).

William Thomas McKnight 1846-1922


William served in the 16th Confederate Calvary under command of Colonel Charles G. Armstead. This regiment was also known as the 12th Mississippi Calvary. McKnight was in the Company H that was enrolled in 1863 in Gainesville, Alabama and in Paulding, Mississippi under Captain James B. Isbell.


T.F. Gill

Nov. , 1898

Age 58


Thomas F. Gill enlisted in Company F of the 24th Alabama Infantry. In May of 1864 at Resaca he received a wound. Apparently he recovered enough to be with the Hood’s Army on the trip into middle Tennessee. He was captured in Nashville on December 15, 1864 and was sent to Camp Douglas, Illinois until the end of the war. Gill is said to have suffered the remained of his life from the wound he received at Resaca. Ultimately the wound is said to have killed Gill.


Obituary in Our Southern Home: 






















Dr. Newton F Randell 

1851-1904


Marked with iron Southern Cross of Honor, but I cannot find any records of his military service. He is not in Spratt's list of Confederate soldiers buried at Myrtlewood. 


  • Spratt, Robert D.,  A History of Livingston, Alabama (Livingston: Sumter County Historical Society, 1928) 175.





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