Dear Researchers,
Smith Callaway BANKS asked me to let everyone know about the upcoming Samuel
Alderman Cemetery Memorial event. If you have any questions about the event, please contact
Smith (his e-mail address is below). I hope to see many of you at this event to honor these ancestors. God
Bless You All, Bob ><>
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From:
Smith C. Banks
cbanks@frontiernet.netTo: Descendants, Family and
Friends of the Samuel
Alderman family and SCV members.
You are invited to the dedication of the Samuel
Alderman Cemetery Memorial and Memorials of Three
Bulloch Confederate Solders at
Brannen Cemetery on Westside Road, Statesboro, GA. This will be on Saturday afternoon, November 23, 2002 at 2:00 PM.
Brannen Cemetery is approximately 6 miles west of Statesboro --- from the Court House and out West Main Street.
Memorials to the Confederate
Soldiers will be conducted by members of
Sons of Confederate Veterans and re-enactors. The soldiers will be honored with cannon and rifle volleys. Refreshments will be served after the ceremony.
Samuel
Alderman, a son of David
Alderman and Jemima
Hall, married Sarah
Chestnut, a daughter of David
Chestnut and Sarah Hollingsworth. They married ca. 1812 in Duplin County, North Carolina. Shortly thereafter they moved to Bulloch County, Georgia. Here they carved their homestead from the wilderness. They were parents of thirteen children. Their plantation was located on what is today's
BANKS Dairy Road. The Samuel
Alderman family burying ground was on their plantation. After many years of neglect, that cemetery had been destroyed.
The children of
Sallie Alderman and Joshua
Smith, Sr., are erecting memorials to the people known to be buried there. Another monument to Confederate Private James
Carr Hodges, killed at the Battle of Antietam, is also placed in the
Alderman plot.
Markers are being placed for:
Samuel
Alderman and his wife, Sarah
Chestnut Alderman.
Safronia "Fronie"
Alderman, daughter of Samuel and Sarah
Alderman.
Joseph Caruthers
Hodges and his wife, Mary Ann
Alderman Hodges.
Pvt. James
Carr Hodges, C.S.A., killed at Antietam, Maryland, son of Joseph and Mary Ann A. Hodges
Mitchell A. Alderman, C.S.A., and his wife, Emma Morris
Alderman.
Narcissa Branch Morris, wife of Henry Morris and mother of Emma
Alderman and
Cara Hough.
Nathan
Hough and Walter
Hough, young sons of William N. and
Cara Morris
Hough.
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Another marker will be dedicated for Confederate Private Hampton
Brannen, son of William
Brannen, Jr. and his wife, Nancy
Hodges. Hampton died in
Wilmington, N.C. while serving in the Confederate
Army. His cenotaph will be placed next to the grave of his wife, Nancy
Riggs Brannen.
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