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).

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).

Pippen Family Cemetery

Pippen Cemetery

Find A Grave Survey

Location:

Middlebrooks Dr. 

Jones  County, Georgia

33° 5.256'N   83° 44.8566'W

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 2505008

Date Completion of Survey: October 6, 2022

Protocol for conducting a Find A Grave Survey:

1. There must be evidence of Confederate service in a picture on the memorial page (VA tombstone, inscription on a non-military tombstone, Confederate flag, Southern Cross of Honor).
2. Confederate soldiers are automatically recorded if they are marked with a VA tombstone.
3. Service of those marked with a Confederate flag or Southern Cross of Honor is recorded if their service records can be established. 
4. Soldiers whose service is described in their Find a Grave memorial are recorded if the information given can be corroborated. 

This is a survey of Pippen Family Cemetery in Jones County, Georgia using the Find A Grave memorial page for the cemetery. The cemetery page contains 3 memorials. There are no photographs. 

Description of Cemetery: Small family cemetery has only one marked grave; however, there is one stone pile mausoleum and markers and other evidence many other graves. Located on private property (Watts) you have to have permission to view it. The property is near the Jarrell Plantation. Dist. 12 Land Lot 183 (Find A Grave Memorial 2505008)

On September 18, 2022 Robert Watts posted a picture of Green Pippens VA headstone on Facebook page Forgotten Cemeteries of Georgia.

Green Pippen

Co A

3 Ga Res

CSA

Springhill UMC Cemetery

State Highway 272

Campbellton, Franklin County, Florida

N 30° 53.98992'   W085° 27.3381'

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 2317154

Date of Visit: July 21, 2024

Stephen Pennington

Pvt Co G

6 Ga Inf

Confederate States Army

Mau 10 1838     Dec 2 1915

Willoughby Miles

Co A. 2 Fla Cav

Confederate States Army

Sep 20 1835    Jan 16 1918

Andrew Franklin McCrary

Pvt Co A 2 Fla Cav

Confederate States Army

June 3 1839      Mar 28 1916

Wright J Miles

Pvt Capt Poe's Co.

1st Fl Reserves

Confederate States Army

Apr 4 1850.    May 23 1923

Pvt 

Japhet P Thompson

Co B

2 Fla Inf

CSA

1841

1919

New Hope UMC Cemetery

Location:

State Highway 79

New Hope, Washington County, Florida

N 30° 34.5144   W085° 48.4626

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 1994204

Date of Visit: July 21, 2014

William Wilbur Howell

Wagn  Co A 3 Fla Inf

Confederate States Army

1836      1910

John Wesley Miller

Co G

2 Fla Cav

CSA

1825

1885

William Wright

Pvt Co D. 2 Fla Inf

Confederate States Army

1851   1908

Jesse William Hare

Co G. 57 Ala Inf

CSA

1834       1919

E.P. Skipper

Jones Fla H G

CSA

Pvt

Henry T Jones

Co H. 6 Ga Inf

CSA

Jul 4 1838       July 9 1863

Henry Jones enlisted in Company H of the 6th Georgia Infantry  on September 18, 1861. It is reported that he died from disease near Fredericksburg, Virginia on December 28, 1862. 

Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Henry Jones, 6th Georgia Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, May 27, 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