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).

Fairview #2 Cemetery

AKA Beulah Cemetery

Location:

State Highway 23

St. Clair County, Alabama

N 33° 46.786   W065° 21.687

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 2304977

Date of Visit: January 8, 2017

Pvt

William W. Hill

Co F  29 Ala Inf

CSA

Oct 1834     Sep 11 1906

William M. McBrayer

Co E

62 Ala Inf

CSA

Elisha A Dickert

Co D

8 Ga Inf

CSA