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

Laney Cemetery

AKA Moshat Cemetery

Location:

County Road 83

Cherokee County, Alabama

N 34° 07.173   W085° 37.073

Date of Visit: May 11, 2021

Calvin H. Barron

Co B

3 Ga Cav

CSA

Calvin J Edgens

Serg

Co D

1 SC Inf

Confederate States Army

Calvin had a head stone with the following inscriptions: “Fired the first shot at Ft. Sumpter”.  A Cherokee County Chamber of Commerce publication states that he is alleged to have been in a battery that firsd on Fort Sumter.  

The following is found at his Find A Grave Memorial:

Fought for the CSA during the Civil War. 1st SC infantry (regulars)Butlers - also known as the Third SC Heavy Artillery. Enlisted in Spartanburg, SC and served on South Carolina coastal defense through most of the war. Fought at the Battle of Bentonville, NC a few weeks before the end of hostilities.

Married Harriett Brannon after the war and moved towards Rome, Georgia which was under a smallpox quarantine at the time. Went around Rome and settled in Cherokee County, Alabama and became a farmer. Allegedly was a member of the battery that fired the first shot on Ft. Sumter (Cherokee County Historical Society)

• Find a Grave, database and images (www.findagrave.com/memorial/18558998/george-jefferson-edgins : accessed 13 May 2021), memorial page for George Jefferson Edgins (30 Oct 1838–24 Jan 1890), Find a Grave Memorial ID 18558998, citing Laney Cemetery, Cherokee County, Alabama, USA ; Maintained by glockem (contributor 46898841) .

Socopatoy Cemetery

Location:

Alabama Highway 9

Coosa County, Alabama

N 32° 58.900   W086° 04.081

FAG: 26361

Date of Visit: February 22, 2021

John D Shelton

Pvt Co B 34 Regt Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Oct 31 1828      Nov 19 1905

W.W. Selman

Capt  Co H 14 Regt Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Nov 13 1816.     Jun 6 1875

Albert Thomas

Pvt Co C 53 Ala Cav

Confederate States Army

Jan 7 1822    Jun 12 1906

George F Hester

Co D

17 Ala Inf

CSA

Abram Hester

Serg Co D 17 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Feb 4 1811        May 8 1884

Thomas Smith

Pvt Co E 12 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Aug 1 1813       Dec 13 1885

Howell Rose Robbin

Co D   17 Regt Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Aug 1 1845      Apr 30 1923

Thomas H Mitchell

Pvt Co B 12 Regt Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Jan 8 1840      Feb 28 1924

Lucius A Hawes

Pvt Co F 1 Batt Ala Arty

Confederate States Army

Aug 19 1837    Nov 6 1864

Enlisted in in Company F of the artillery battalion Wetumpka, Alabama  in 1861. Throughout the war he served in Company F and A. In April of 1864 the 1st Battalion of Artillery was stationed at Fort Morgan. On August 23, 1864 he was  captured  at Fort Morgan. He was sent to New Orleans where he spent time in hospital with dysentery before being and then to Elmira, New York as a prisoner of war. He died of pneumonia on November 10, 1864 and was buried in Grave 811. The marker at Socopatoy is a cenotaph. He is still buried in New York. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for L.A. Hawes, 1st Battalion of Alabama Artillery. Retrieved from at 3-Fold May 9, 20231 (http://www.fold3.com).

• Joyce M. Tice, “Civil War Prison Camp, Elmira, Chemung County, New York,” Tri-Counties Genealogy & History, accessed May 9, 2021, https://www.joycetice.com/cemc/prisoneh.htm

New River Baptist Church Cemetery

AKA: Killingsworth Family Cemetery

Location:

County Road 44

Fayette County, Alabama

N 33° 50.092   W087° 39.458

Date of Visit: May 1, 2021

J.M. Wakefield

Co K

4 Ala Cav

CSA

Apr 12 1846

Aug 8 1920

New River Church of Christ Graveyard

Location:

County Road 49

Hubbertville, Fayette County, Alabama

N 33° 45.248   W087° 41.618

FAG: 22463

Date of Visit: May 1, 2021

Hiram Hyde

Co F

38 Ala Inf

CSA

New Prospect United Methodist Church Graveyard

Location:

Tallapoosa County Road 54

Reeltown, Tallapoosa County, Alabama

N 32° 40.612   W085° 49.162

FAG: 2218659

Date of Visit: February 19, 2021

M F Potts

Co H

44 Ala Inf

CSA

Eagle Creek Cemetery

Location:

Alabama State Highway 49

Tallapoosa County, Alabama

N 32° 56.583   W085° 45.037

FAG: 22595

Date of Visit: February 19, 2021

George M. Roberts

Co F

47 Ala Inf

CSA

Pvt

Peter E Harris

Co A

47 Ala Inf

CSA

1822

1871

Pvt

Richard E. Davis

Co G

34 Ala Inf

CSA

Nov 1 1834

Nov 21 1905

James Willis McKinnon

Co G 34 Ala Regt

Civil War

1840

1919

Adam Clark Duffy

Pvt Co G 5 Ala Inf Regt

Confederate States Army

Nov 4 1836  Jun 30 1920

Pvt

Huston Coker

Co D  34 Ala Inf

CSA

1927

Mar 1 1868

John Wynn Freeman

Pvt Co G  5 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

May 15, 1834     Jun 5 1922

Orlando Tyler Shepard

Pvt Co D 1 Ala Cav

Confederate States Army

Jan 1 1844.   Mar 13 1924

Doctor  Bugle Boy

For Gen Joe E. Wheeler

Orlando enlisted in 1861 in Montgomery. He was detached as bugler for General Wheeler’s escort December 13, 1862. In 1864 he was still attached to the escort with this duty. After the war he was a respected doctor in Tallapoosa County. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for O.T. Shepard, 1st Alabama Calvary, Retrieved from at 3-Fold April 21, 2021,  (http://www.fold3.com).

• “Resolutions.” The Alexander City Outlook, June 14, 1921, p. 2 https://www.newspapers.com/image/308154820

Blksmith

William S Harris

Co A 10 Conf Cav

CSA

1830    1892

HF Freeman

Pvt Co D  34 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Aug 17 1836   Mar 30 1922

George W Adair

Pvt  2 Ga Inf

Confederate States Army

Aug 25 1844    Mar 2 1926

CM Harkins

Co I 

8 Conf Cav

CSA

Rocky Creek Baptist Church

Location:

Tallapoosa County Road 5/ Sanford Road

Tallapoosa County, Alabama

N 33° 02.154   W085° 49.969

FAG: 2172566

Date of Visit: February 19, 2021

P. Wade Mahan

Pvt Co F  17 Regt Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Nov 9 1835    May 3 1923

Hillabee Campground Methodist Church

Location:

Tallapoosa County Road 33/ Camp Ground Road

Tallapoosa County, Alabama

N 33° 02.973   W085° 54.272

FAG: 23434

Date of Visit: February 19, 2021

Thomas M Polk

Co B

38 Ala Inf

T Z Tate

Pvt Co I 8 Conf Cav

Confederate States Army

Mar 18 1839   May 27 1914

Bennett L. Stancil

Pvt Co A 12 Regt Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Jul 18 1842     Nov 12 1925

Andrew Champion

Co B

37 Ala Inf

CSA

George W Porter

2nd Serg. Co C  59 Regt Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

George W Pearson

Com Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Mar 1829    Feb 1876

Not sure of what “Com” means, but he enlisted in Company C of Hillard’s Legion.

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 26 March 2021), memorial page for George Washington Pearson (16 Mar 1829–16 Feb 1876), Find a Grave Memorial no. 85050681, citing Hillabee Campground Cemetery, Tallapoosa City, Tallapoosa County, Alabama, USA ; Maintained by Hutch (contributor 47312109) .

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for George Washington Pearson, Hillard’s Legion, Retrieved from at 3-Fold February 16, 2021,  (http://www.fold3.com).

Drewry F Hooton

Pvt Co A  59 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Oct 20 1824     Dec 26 1903

James Neighbors

Co C 47 Ala Inf

CSA

Corp

James W Holdridge

Co G

14 Ala Inf

CSA

Jul 31 1840

Apr 2 1868

William Rogers

3rd Corp Ala Militia

Confederate States Army

Feb 13 1811    Oct 27  1901

John M Bailey

Pvt Alabama Militia

Confederate States Army

Jan 15, 1809   Sept 18 1882

Edmund P Horton

3rd Serg

Ala Mtd Militia

Confederate States Army

Robert J McKemie

Pvt Co A  41 Ga Regt

Confederate States Army

AJ Reid

Born Mar 22, 1831 

Died Apr 2, 1914

Back:

Member of Confederate Army

Co G Wheelers Cav. 

In the 1907 enumeration of Clay County veterans Andrew Jackson Reid of Childersburg reported that he enlisted in 1862 in  Company C of the 6th Georgia Calvary regiment. This regiment was a part of Wheeler’s Calvary. 

• Ancestry.com. Alabama, U.S., Census of Confederate Soldiers, 1907, 1921 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA. Census or Enumeration of Confederate Soldiers Residing in Alabama, 1907-1908. Alabama Department of Archives & History, Montgomery, Alabama. Entry for Andrew Jackson Reid.

•  Stewart Sifakis, Compendium of the Confederate Armies: South Carolina and Georgia. (Westminster, Maryland: Heritage Books, 2007), 156.

  

Emmaus Cemetery

Location:

Emmaus Road

Lamar County, Alabama

33.8078003  -88.0916977

FAG 22682

Date of Visit: December 23, 2007

William R. Langley

Nelson’s 

Ala Lt Arty

CSA

Oct 1 1841     

March 10, 1892

Francis M Pennington

Co I 

43 Ala Inf

CSA

Born 1837    

Died 1900

F A Malloy

Co F 

42 Ala Inf

CSA

Geo W Shackleford

Co I 

43 Ala Inf

CSA

Henry C Bickerstaff

Co A

10th Regt

Ala Inf

CSA

Oct 17, 1908

Oliver P Robertson

Co K

60 Ga Inf

CSA

John Morris

Co K

8 Ala Inf

CSA

Kelpin Family Cemetery

Location:

Chattahoochee Nature Center

Roswell, Fulton County, Georgia

34.0048773   - 84.3784779

Date of Visit: March 30, 2019

Private

Charles Kelpin

Roswell BN

Ga Cav

CSA

Jul 8, 1846

Feb 21, 1864

Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 21 March 2021), memorial page for Pvt Charles Kelpin (8 Jul 1846–21 Feb 1864), Find a Grave Memorial no. 38321550, citing Kelpin Family Cemetery, Roswell, Fulton County, Georgia, USA ; Maintained by Memories of You (contributor 46983035) .

Charles Kelpin and his family lived in Roswell which was then in Cobb County, Georgia (today it is in Fulton County). Charles was the second child, the first son born to William Kelpin, a carpenter and       farmer born c. 1820 in North Carolina, and Mary Kelpin, born c. 1828 in Virginia. Charles had one         older     sister, Georgia A. Kelpin (born c. 1845) and four younger siblings: Nancy (born c. 1848), Josephus (b.c. 1852), Aaron (b.c. 1853), and William jr. (b.c. 1859). In 1857 William Kelpin Sr. purchased the land surrounding the burial ground for use as a family farm.

When the Civil War broke out, Charles was a worker at the Roswell mill factories near Roswell Square. Because of that valuable wartime position, he was exempt from military duty but nevertheless chose to enlist with the Roswell Battalion (Company C) on August 11, 1863, a unit organized on June 28, 1863 originally intended for home defense in Northern Georgia against Union incursions. Charles died, age 17, in Augusta, Georgia before participating in any battles.

According to the Chattahoochee Nature Center, which now owns the land surrounding the old Kelpin burial ground, there may be up to six Kelpin family members buried in the immediate area of Charles' grave, although only three of the graves there are clearly marked as such. A relatively recently installed U.S. Veterans Confederate gravemarker marks the spot of Charles Kelpin's burial, replacing an older gravestone.