Wilson Cemetery

Location:

T. Johnson Road

Ranger, Gordon County, Georgia

 34.57905, -84.74837

Find A Grave Cemetery ID:2268187

Date of Visit: October 19, 2019

Nathaniel E Callahan

Co D 6 Ga Cav CS

May 1840

1913

Zachariah F. Wilson

Aug 25 1820

Dec 26 1909

He was true to his

country. He went 

north secured provisions for his friends 

during the sixties. 

Z.F. Wilson enlisted July 4, 1863 in Company G of the 1st Regiment Infantry, Georgia State Guards. His name appears on a January 1864 muster out roll for the company. During this time he did mounted service on his own horse. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Z.F. Wilson, 1st Georgia Infantry (State Guards)Retrieved from at 3-Fold, September 26, 2025,  (http://www.fold3.com).

Fain Cemetery

Location:

East Line Street

Calhoun, Gordon County, Georgia

N 34° 30.264   W084° 56.5321

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 33878

Dates of Visit: September 10, 2024

Joel Cicero Fain

Lt Col Co B 6 Bn Ga Cav

Confederate States Army

Mar 21 1839     Mar 13 1895

Lieutenant Colonel Fain served in the 6th Georgia Calvary. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Joel C. Fain, 6th Georgia Calvary. Retrieved from at 3-Fold, September 28, 2024,  (http://www.fold3.com).

John Geurin

Georgia

Sgt Cherokee Legion Georgia Inf

Confederate States Army

Dec 23 1823     Feb 3 1889

George Jefferson Fain

Georgia

Pvt Co E 40 Regt Ga Inf

June 3 1862

Fain enlisted as a private in Company E of the 40th Georgia Infantry. In the spring of he was assistant quartermaster of the regiment when they were stationed at Camp Van Dorn near Knoxville. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for G.J. Fain, 40th Georgia Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, September 28, 2024,  (http://www.fold3.com).

Land Cemetery

Harris Beamer Road S.W.

Calhoun, Gordon County, Georgia

N 34° 29.696'   W085° 59.4066'

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 2290342

Date of Visit: August 2, 2024

Capt.N.B.

Hudgins

21st Ga Regt.

Born

Dec 29, 1836

Died

July 16, 1905

Oostanaula Baptist Church

Location:

Old Rome-Dalton Road

Gordon County, Georgia

N 34° 29.2434'    W085° 1.5408'

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 2158787

Date of Visit: August 3, 2024

Martin Bird Talley

Co C  8 Ga Batt

Confederate States Army

Mar 25 1822  May 8 1904

Sugar Valley Baptist Church (Update)

Location:

US HWY 136

Gordon County, Georgia

N 34° 34.501   W085° 01.480

This cemetery was originally visited in 2009. Subsequent visits in 2018 and 2024 resulted in the location of burials of the following Confederate soldiers.  The cemetery was originally blogged on June 21, 2009. 

John Hamilton Bridges

Corp Co C  39 Ga Inf

Confederate States Army

1839      1915

William John Hall 

February 5, 1825

October 26, 1889

In 2018 William John Hall's grave  was marked with the Southern Cross of Honor. Hall He served as a 2nd Lieutenant in Company C , 8th Georgia Infantry Battalion. Company C, known as Littlefield's Volunteers was recruited from Gordon County Georgia and mustered at Blackwood Springs in the fall of 1861. He was captured in 1864 and sent to Camp Chase in Ohio. He was paroled at Richmond in 1865. 

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/76150306/william_john-hall: accessed August 13, 2024), memorial page for William John Hall (5 Feb 1825–26 Oct 1889), Find a Grave Memorial ID 76150306, citing Sugar Valley Baptist Church Cemetery, Sugar Valley, Gordon County, Georgia, USA; Maintained by NB (contributor 47589535).

Hopper Family Cemetery

Location:

US Highway 411

Gordon County, Georgia

N34 31.322 W084 42.503

FAG: 2449118

Date of Visit: May 26, 2021

In Memory of 

John Angel

Hopper

Died A CSA War

Capt. In Yazoo, Miss

Born 1825

Died 1863

John Angel Hooper was commissioned as Captain of Company E 8th Battalion of Infantry on September 23, 1861.  Company E was raised in Gordon Coyunty, Georgia and was known as Freeman’s Volunteers. Captain Hopper and the company served coastal defense duty until being sent west in May of 1863. He died of fever in Yazoo during the movement to relieve Vicksburg on June 11, 1863.  He is thought to have been buried somewhere in Mississippi. See his Find a Grave Memorial page for more details. 

• Find a Grave, database and images (www.findagrave.com/memorial/49493910/john-angel-hopper : accessed 27 May 2021), memorial page for Capt John Angel Hopper (1825–11 Jun 1863), Find a Grave Memorial ID 49493910, citing Hopper Family Cemetery, Ranger, Gordon County, Georgia, USA ; Maintained by Kathy Gatlin (contributor 46822976) .

• Lulie Pitts, History of Gordon County, Georgia, (Calhoun: The Press of Calhoun Times, 1934), 138.

Overton Cemetery

Location:

Oak Grove Road

Gordon County, Georgia

34.45666 -84.97386

FAG: 2449118

Date of Visit: March 17, 2018

Sgt

John C Overton

Co E

51 Regt

Ala Cav

May 10, 1847

Jan 28 1918

Mount Zion Baptist Church

Location:

Mt. Zion Road

Gordon County, Georgia

34.6055990. -84.9174280

Find a Grave Cemetery ID # 2176453

Date of Visit: May 24, 2019

Daniel Chitwood

CSA Co A 23 Regt Ga Infantry

Nov 19 1843   May 13 1892

Note: Daniel is one of three Chitwood brothers that served in the Confederate Army.

Harmony Cemetery

Location:

Harmony Church Road

Calhoun, Gordon County, Georgia

34.507500     -84.916702

Date of Visit: June 16, 2018

B. R. Bray

Co C

63 Ga Inf

CSA

1842 - 1916

Capt

William Holsonbeck

Co C

8 Bn Ga Inf

April 10 1829

Dec 17 1884

Captain Holsonbeck was captured near Atlanta July 28, 1864. He was a prisoner of war at Johnson Island, Ohio. He was released on his oath in accordance with General Order 109 on June 14, 1865. - Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia. Original data from: The National Archives, Retrieved from at 3-Fold June 17,2018. (http://www.fold3.com)

Abbott Cemetery

Abbott Cemetery

Location:

Highway 53

Calhoun, Gordon County, Georgia

N 34° 28.033  W084° 54.790

Date of Visit: January 21, 2018

Robert Ambrose Abbott was a member of Company K of the 3rd Georgia Calvary. he enlisted in the army with a horse valued at 200 dollars in 1862. He died at Camp Randolph in Calhoun....not far from his home. 

 

Armstead Ambrose Abbott enlisted in the Confederate Army on May 7, 1862. He was a member of the Calhoun Blues, Company D, 40th Georgia Infantry Regiment. A.A. Abbott was captured at Champion Hill on May 17, 1863 and was a prisoner of war at Fort Delaware. At some point prior to 1864 he was paroled. He rejoined the army and was captured again at Atlanta on August 13, 1864. He spent time at as a POW at Louisville, Kentucky, Camp Chase, Ohio, and Point Lookout, Maryland. Here he took the oath of allegiance and was released on June 22, 1865.

Sources:

• Jacob Abbott Find Grave Memorial# 35643928
• Robert Ambrose Abbott Find a Grave Memorial # 159554608
• Muster Roll of Company D 40th Georgia Regiment,      http://www.generalbartonandstovall.com
• Gordon County Placenames, http://gordoncountyplacenames.wordpress.com
• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia. Original data from: The National Archives, Retrieved from at 3-Fold January 22, 2018. (http://www.fold3.com)

Note: More about the brothers was posted at Notes From the Field (https://greenweeksblog.wordpress.com/2018/01/25/abbott-cemetery/)