1908 Confederate Burials

1908 Listing of Confederate Buried in Florence City Cemetery

Contributed by Lee Freeman March 23, 2004

SOURCE: Florence Times, Friday, November 20, 1908, p. 1.

OUR DEAD HEROES

Movement to Mark Their Graves in the City Cemetery.

The Florence chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy are engaged in a movement to suitably mark the names of all the Confederate dead interred in the city cemetery. They have a list, which is published below for the purpose of having added to the list any names that may not be in their possession, and also to have stricken from the list any names that are not entitled to be on it. The committee in charge of this work are Mrs. Lee Ashcraft, Miss Olive Rogers and Miss Mattie McDavid. These ladies ask correction of the list by any one having information on the subject:

W. E. Blair

Capt. A. D. Ray

David Sharp

J. Cunningham

Jesse Brooks

Edward O'Neal

James R. Price

W. T. White

Isaac S. Barr

Wm. Portlock

Walter Glenn

W. W. Bayless

H. B. Lee

Willis K. Embrey

H. D. Smith

Dr. J. A. Douglas

Col. Jno. Steele

James Hancock

M. J. Warren

H. M. Hawkins

Robert Campbell

B. M. Rogers

T. M. Rhodes

Wm. Simpson

Geo. W. Barks

Cutler Smith

Thos. R. Powers

J. W. Powers

R. O. Pickett

John W. Price

Charles Reeder

Tom Rogers

C. B. Stewart

Jas. J. Thompson

J. W. Chisholm

Billy Chisholm

Cyrus Morrison

John Thrasher

Wash Foster

Seymour Irvine

James B. Irvine

Tom House

Stratton Jones

Cal Carson

John Ragsdale

Oscar Jones

Darby John

A. Ashcraft

Maj. H. C. Wood

John B. Weakley

Wm. B. Wood

John C. Simpson

John Crow

Theo Allen Jones

Gov. E. A. O'Neal
Capt. Robert McFarland
Gen. Wm. Allen
Alex McAlexander
Ed. McAlexander
Capt. Thomas Ingram
Sterling McDonald
McGucken
Capt. T. J. Williams