Pvt. James Malcom (circa 1750 – 1829)

Two hundred years ago on March 14, 1829 James Malcom’s obituary appeared in The Southern Recorder, Milledgeville, Georgia as follows:

Today, generations later, many relatives and friends of his descendants are gathered here to celebrate the bicentennial of this family moving into Georgia by the placing of veteran markers in memory of him, and on the graves of thirteen of his grandson or great-grandsons buried in this cemetery.

James, his wife Sally Ganaway, and the first seven of their ten children moved from Virginia to Georgia in 1789 settling first in Wilkes County. He won a headright grant and is listed in the 1791 land lottery there. By 1797 this family was in Lincoln County where they joined the Goshen Baptist Church in 1804.

Two years later church records show he departed from the membership of that church with his wife, Sally, and son, David. In 1807 he was one of the founders of the Sandy Creek Baptist Church in Morgan County; and he was the second individual to purchase land in that newly formed county. He acquired other land by purchase and land lottery including 250 acres of Walton County land in the 1821 land lottery which listed him as a Revolutionary soldier.

The children of James and Sally were: Mary Ann (Henry Conner), David C. (Nancy Adcock), Elizabeth (John E. Adcock), Ganaway (1. Mary Polly Adcock 2. Rebecca Hawk), John (1. Joanna Adcock 2. Nancy J. Hawk), James Malcom, Jr. (Margaret "Peggy" Patterson), Sarah (Edmund Adcock, Jr.). The last three children were born in Georgia and were George W. (Susannah Allen), Nancy (James Robertson), and Anna (1. William Watson 2. Merriman Herndon).

James Malcom: Captain or Private?

There were two, probably three James Malcoms from Virginia in the Revolutionary War. They were:

1. James Malcom from Augusta County; Pvt. Captain Dickey’s Company, Virginia Militia.
2. Capt. James Malcom, Navy of Virginia, Commander of the Frigate "Tempest"
3. Capt. James Malcom, Virginia Troops in Continental Line

Accepting the obituary of James Malcom of Morgan Co, Georgia as correct, it is evident that the progenitor of the Georgia Malcoms was the first one mentioned and not the Navy Captain for the following reasons:

The Battle of Guilford Court House was fought on 15 March 1781 in North Carolina while Captain James Malcom of the Tempest was a prisoner of war;

James Malcom of Morgan County died in 1829 in Georgia, while Captain James Malcom died in 1811/12 in Virginia;

James Malcom of Morgan County had ten children listed in his will (Morgan Co, Book B, pg 256), but Capt. James Malcom’s heirs were two nieces, Sarah Davis and Sarah Hodges of Norfolk Co, Va, indicating he may not have been married.

Furthermore, the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution have admitted descendants of Georgia’s James Malcom on the basis of his service record as "Soldier, Private, in Virginia Continental Line." In cases where applications were made stating Capt. Malcom as the ancestor, it has been disallowed and Private inserted.

The memorial obelisk in this cemetery to James Malcom and his family states his service record as Navy Captain. However, it was erected in the 1950’s, and thus the earlier, and more likely correct, record of the event is his obituary written in 1829. Whether or not our James was related to the other Captain James has not been proved. Likewise, his parentage and ancestry awaits proof and documentation.

George W. Malcom (1830 – 1891)

[Update of April 2010: Descendant Gerri A. H. Yoder has discovered that this bit arises from the records of two different men named George W. Malcom. The George W. Malcom (Gerri's GWM) who hired Tom Bonner to take his place had no further service record. The George W. Malcom who was at Griswoldville (Jayne's GWM) "was captured at Griswoldville and held in the Point Lookout, Maryland prison camp until the end of the war" by Gerri's record.]

George W. Malcom, son of George W. Malcom and Susannah Allen, grandson of James Malcom and Sally Ganaway, was a Confederate veteran serving briefly in Co H, 42^nd Reg, Georgia Vol Infantry before hiring a substitute, Thomas Bonner who was mortally wounded at Vicksburg. Near the close of the war, George W. enlisted again, this time serving in Co H, 4^th Reg, Georgia State Militia, and saw action in the battle at Griswoldville. He died of rabies from a mad dog bite.

George W. Malcom and his wife Sarah Preston (1834 – 1874) are buried nearby in the Preston family cemetery.

[This section adapted from section entitled The Memorial Wreath and Roses.]

The 42^nd Regiment Georgia Volunteers (Infantry), Confederate States Army

The 42^nd Georgia Regiment consisted of ten companies of mostly young farmers and was one of the largest regiments in the service. It was always kept well recruited and was engaged in twenty-two battles. Walton County’s two companies in the 42^nd were H (Walton Tigers) and G (Walton Blues). Company H was largely recruited from a company of six month troops (Capt. H.L. Williams Co B, 3^rd Battalion Infantry, Sunny South Guards), who left Walton County and served out their time on the coast at Savannah. The other companies were from Gwinnett, Milton, Dekalb, Newton, and Fulton Counties.

The 42^nd organized at Camp McDonald 4 Mar 1862 and during the month there, a great deal of sickness and many deaths occurred. They were sent to Knoxville, TN, and from there marched to Cumberland Gap where they were first under fire. Their second contact with the enemy came near Tazewell, TN August 6, 1862. After that they were led through Kentucky by Gen. Braxton Bragg.

The regiment arrived at Vicksburg, MS in time to defeat Grant on 28 December 1862 in the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou under the leadership of Gen. John C. Pemberton. At Vicksburg the Regiment was first stationed north of the city, and afterwards below in the swamps under horrible conditions before being moved into the city. Again outside the city on 16 May 1863, they were routed in an early morning surprise attack by Grant at Baker’s Creek and were forced to retreat to Vicksburg. There they remained under siege from 18 May 1863 until the city surrendered to Grant on July 4. The Blues and Tigers were among those paroled during that month and sent home by way of Mobile, Ala.

Reorganization took place at Decatur, Georgia. The 42^nd joined Bragg’s forces once more, this time at Chickamauga, Georgia and soon took to the field again in east Tennessee. These troops were present at the battle of Missionary Ridge, 24 Nov 1863. After this battle Gen. Joe Johnston superceded Gen. Bragg and took up winter quarters at and around Dalton, recruited and disciplined his army, and was ready, but outmanned, for Sherman when the spring campaign opened.

Company H and one other company from the 42^nd were on picket when engaged in a fierce fight at Rocky Face Ridge being outnumbered ninety men against four hundred before being rescued by Col. Henderson and two additional companies of the 42^nd. This was Company H’s hardest fought battle.

After winter the Atlanta campaign opened in earnest and it was almost a continuous battle with major battles for the 42^nd at Resaca, New Hope Church, Pumpkin Vine, Kennesaw, three battles in and around Atlanta (July 20, 22, and 28, 1864), and at Jonesboro. In the July 22 Battle of Atlanta the 42^nd Georgia. Reg captured the famous Degress’ Battery of eight guns near the Hurst House, as shown in the Cyclorama, now at Grant Park in Atlanta.

In September 1864 from Lovejoy, they were sent into Tennessee, where they engaged the enemy at Franklin and Nashville. Their last battles of the war were at Edisto River, Binaker’s Bridge, Orangeburg, and in 1865 in North Carolina at Winston and Bentonville.

Quoting from 2^nd Lt. James Monroe Gresham of Co H. concerning the closing months of the War, " No general except Joe Johnston could maneuver a small army before a superior force without having it demoralized. Everyone had the utmost confidence in him; when ordered to fight we were ready, and when told to retreat it was done in order without any demoralizing effect. Suffice it to say that when not absent, sick or wounded in Hospital, or on detached services we were always ready and did our part most nobly."

Capt. William David Malcom (1833 – 1863)

Co G (Walton Co. Blues), 42^nd Reg, Georgia Vol Infantry

William D. volunteered 4 March 1862 in Monroe, Georgia. for three years or for the duration of the war. He was elected 2^nd Lt. and mustered into service 11 April 1862, and promoted to Captain on 1 Sept 1862. Capt. Malcom was wounded at Chickasaw Bayou near Vicksburg, MS on 28 Dec 1862, a battle in which 1,776 Federals and 207 Confederates were killed, wounded, or missing. He died less than two months later on 9 Feb 1863.

He was the great-grandson of James Malcom, grandson of Elder George W. Malcom and only child of David Malcom (1811 – 1833) and Elizabeth Gaither. His father died when William David was 10 months old. His mother married Marian C. Thornton in 1842 and started a second family.

William David, a school teacher, was married on 15 Dec 1853 to Miss Rebecca Malcom (1832 – 1874) in Morgan County, Georgia. She was a granddaughter of James Malcom by his son Ganaway Malcom and second wife, Rebecca Hawk. William David died at age thirty leaving his widow Rebecca, mother Elizabeth, and five children under the age of nine. The children were Elizabeth (Jack Cook), Nancy (Thurmond Cook), David (Rebecca Green), Ganaway (Anna Jane Eudora Malcom), and Sally (Nat Lord).

Lt. Henry Harden Green (1829 – 1906)

2^nd Lt. Co G, 42^nd Reg, Ga Vol Inf., Army of Tennessee

On 12 April 1862, H. H. Green was one of the early soldiers to enlist in Co H, 42^nd Reg. He entered as a private and served in Tennessee and Kentucky before being sent to Mississippi. He was wounded near Vicksburg, MS between 28 Dec 1862 and 5 Jan 1863, and was in the siege of Vicksburg that followed. These troops were in the trenches for forty-seven days and nights before the surrender on 4 July 1863. Green was paroled on the 7^th of July and returned to his reorganized Regiment. On 14 Oct 1863 he was elected Jr. 2^nd Lt. of Co G, 42^nd Reg.

He was wounded again at Resaca, Georgia 15 May 1864 during a fierce battle in which about one hundred and thirty members of the 42^nd Georgia were killed or wounded. H. H. Green was granted a medical absence 19 Aug 1864 and was at home, wounded at the April 1865 surrender.

On 19 Nov 1850 he married Frances America Malcom (1833 – 1928), a granddaughter of James Malcom and the thirteenth child of Elder George W. Malcom and Susannah Allen. Henry H. Green’s parents were Rice B. (1794 – 1879) and Rebecca Harden (1798 - ) Green who were married in 1815. Henry was named for his grandfather, Henry Harden, Revolutionary War veteran from North Carolina and pioneer citizen of Walton County. Henry Harden was born 1761 in North Carolina, and buried in Monroe, Georgia in 1843 and was married to Sarah Cook (1763 – 1835) in 1780.

In the 1870 census Henry and "Merck’s" children were listed as Alice (? Smith), Elizabeth (M. E. Robinson), Rice B. (Rosa Barrett), Rebecca (Norris), Nancy S. (John Bostwick), Lily (Claude Adams), and John W. T. (Alice Wilkerson). Others were Jessie (V. V. Harris), Henry Regan (single), and Benjamin H. George W. died young.

Pvt. David H. Malcom (1823 – 1864)

Co H, 42^nd Reg, Ga Vol Inf., Army of Tennessee

David enlisted in July 1863 probably at the reorganization of the 42^nd GA after Vicksburg. After campaigns in east Tennessee, the troops returned to Georgia and readied for the Atlanta campaign. They were in almost continuous battles the spring and summer of 1864, but David was only to participate in two of them. After Resaca and while on picket duty near New Hope Church, GA, David was shot on 25 May 1864. He died immediately and was carried off and buried.

A memorial marker is being placed here today beside his widow, Harriett A. Towler (1828 – 1898), whom he married 24 April 1845 in Morgan Co, GA. They had seven children listed in the 1860 census and two more were added soon after. They were: Mary (Eli Gaither), John, Nancy (Greggs), Rosa, William, Martha Eugenia (Jasper Malcom), Morgan, Tulula (Conner), and Alice.

David H. was the son of David C. and Nancy "Polly" (Adcock) Malcom, pioneer landowners in Walton County, Ga. His father represented Walton County in the State Legislature the year before David was born, and was on its first Grand Jury in 1819. David H. was the grandson of James Malcom and Sally Ganaway.

Pvt. James D. Malcom (1843 – 1922)

Co H (Walton Tigers), 42^nd Reg, GA Vol Inf.

A year after Jimmy D.’s May 12^th enlistment, he and his Regiment were engaged at the siege of Vicksburg. The 42^nd Ga. was first stationed north of the city and later in the swamps where exposure, malaria, spoiled and insufficient food caused them to become almost walking skeletons before they were moved into the city. Later they were in the trenches for forty-seven days and nights, half starved, poorly armed, and resisting assaults of the enemy.

Jimmy D. was in the hospital and captured at the surrender of Vicksburg on July 4, 1863, but he was paroled two days later. He was with his reorganized regiment when it was engaged in battles at Missionary Ridge and the Atlanta campaign. Near the end of the war, the 42^nd GA again engaged the enemy in Tennessee; and on 16 Dec 1864 he was captured at Nashville. This time he was marched through the winter to Louisville, Ky. and on to Camp Chase, Ohio where he was held as a prisoner until two months after the war ended. On 13 June 1865 he signed an Oath of Allegiance and was described as having medium complexion, dark hair, blue eyes, 5’4" tall, and age 21.

Three months after his release, he married Mrs. Rebecca (Malcom) Malcom, the widow of Capt. William D. Malcom and by her had these four children: John H. (Rebecca Adcock), Lucy A. (Greggs, I. T. Hogan), Polly Ann (James B. Towler), and Jim Bob (Molly Towler). Rebecca died in 1874 leaving nine children.

Jimmy D. next married Sarah J. Lewis (1849 – 1901), daughter of Elizabeth Jane Glass and W. Henry Lewis. Their children were Merritt (Helen Thurmond), Homer (Zeda Adcock), Virgil (infant), Vella (Claude Weldon), Burmah (Brewer), Inez Faye (Wm. J. Doster), and Lloyd (Jessie Pickrell).

His final wife, Mrs. Bessie Weldon whom he married in 1904, preceded him in death by nine months. Words in his obituary that described him included rugged honesty, generous, well informed, witty and humorous, writer of poetry and song, noble, brave, praised. He was a Primitive Baptist and member of R. E. Lee Camp Walton Confederate Veterans.

Pvt. John Thomas Malcom (1838 – 1921)

Co H, 11^th Reg, GA Vol Inf.

Tom enlisted March 1862 in the Walton Infantry, Anderson’s Brigade, a unit that saw extensive service from 2^nd Manassas to Gettysburg to Appomattox. Originally, the Walton Infantry was a local military company under the command of Captain G. T. Anderson. In mid-1861 the seventy-three man unit volunteered and was assigned to the 11^th Regiment, Georgia Infantry. One of Company H’s officers was Henry D. McDaniel who later became governor of Georgia.

In little more than two years, eleven of the group’s twelve original officers would fall prey to enemy bullets and disease, and from its eventual ranks more than six times than number would not survive the war. Tom was one of the survivors; however, he was wounded by a minnie ball through the lower part of his right shoulder in the Battle of Sharpsburg, Md. The ball was removed by a surgeon the same day, but the shattered bone left his right arm useless "substantially and accidentally so."

He left his unit in Petersburg, Va and was on furlough, granted for "extra service…and scouting", in Athens, GA a few weeks before his unit surrendered at Appomattox Court House.

His daughter, Jimmie Malcom Meadows, who is being honored today as a Real daughter and a Real granddaughter of the Confederacy, can recall her father having to nurse his wound the remainder of his life. This wound left him permanently disabled, but he avoided applying for a pension "until it was most imperious". In 1899 he was granted a $50.00 pension, and he maintained in his application that he had sold all his property to pay his debts.

Tom was the son of James R. and Caroline (Peters) Malcom and the husband of Eliza Jane Hogan (4 Dec 1848 – 8 Sept 1908) whom he married the year after the War ended. The eight of ten children who reached adulthood were: Robert Lee (Nettie Harper), Carry (J. F. Powers), Lilla Lee (Bud Dickerson), Emma C. (Charles Rouark), Charlie T. (Louie Pratt), E. Cimmie, Lillie Mae, and Jimmie (Wayne Meadows). Rosa died at age two and Nancy Elizabeth at age eight.

Pvt. James D. Malcom (1841 – 1867)

Co H, 11^th Reg, Ga Vol Inf.

Jim enlisted 25 September 1861 in the Walton Infantry under Capt. George T. Anderson who was later promoted and replaced by Matthew Talbot Nunnally. On 11 April 1863 after a four day, eighty mile march from Petersburg, VA, Longstreet’s Corps advanced upon Suffolk, south of the James River. Capt. Nunnally’s Company had a bout with three Union gunboats and it was in this conflict on 15 April 1863 that James D. Malcom had an arm torn off by a shell.

He was home on furlough at the close of the war. His war records describe him as age 23, 5’11" and having gray eyes, dark hair, and dark complexion.

Jim was the first child of Thomas J (1817 - ) and Mary Ann Malcom (ca 1823) Malcom. His paternal grandfather was Elder George W. Malcom and his maternal grandfather was James Malcom (1789 – 1834). Both Malcom grandfathers were sons of James Malcom, Revolutionary War soldier.

Jim was the second spouse of Mrs. Sarah F. Malcom Daniel. He died when their only child, Lemma E. was two years old; and Lemma died when she was 22. The other James D Malcom buried here in 1922 was his wife’s brother. His widow married three more times and survived all five of her Confederate Veteran husbands (Daniel, Malcom, Barrett, Adcock, and Partridge).

A marker is being placed beside his daughter and wife today. The adjacent grave marked only by fieldstone likely is his burial place.

Pvt. William S. Ivy (1827 – 1864)

Co G 66 Regiment, Ga Vol Infantry

William enlisted 12 August 1863 in the new regiment raised for action in North Georgia and the Atlanta area. He was "taken sick while in active service with pneumonia, sent to a hospital in Atlanta, GA and died there on 24 January 1864". He had been in service less than five months when he died.

His widow, Nancy Ann Malcom (1832 – 1919), whom he married 10 February 1848 was the twelfth child of Elder George W. Malcom. William is believed to be the son of Nancy Hanks (ca 1790 - ) and "El. G" Ivy.

Children of William S. and Nancy Ivy were: Susana (Augustus T. Mitchell), Mary Rebecca (single), Eugenia (1854 – 1927, 1. C. H. Lunsford 2. Fuller), George E. Ivey (1855 – 1942, Julia Cook), Joel C. (died young), Elizabeth (Wiley Chandler), Sarah Matilda (Stephen Chandler).

Augustus T. Mitchell (1846 – 1927)

Co K 2^nd Reg, Georgia State Line

Augustus T. Mitchell was 17 years old when he enlisted in Company K, 2^nd Reg, a home Guard unit under the command of the state rather than the Confederate government. He was granted a furlough on 26 March 1865 and left his company in Milledgeville, Ga for home. When the surrender came on April 9, 1865 he was at home in Walton County.

On 8 October 1871 Susan A. Ivy (1849 – 1927) became his bride. Susan was the daughter of William S. and Nancy Ann Malcom Ivy. A.T. and Susan became the parents of six children who were: James J. (Anna Hester), William T. (Mary Bessie Daws), Mamie (Emory George), Oma (Homer Jones), Nervie (Weldon Hamilton), Exer Odessa (William Hester).

He was a farmer and in later years suffered from chronic rheumatism. He died on 31 August 1927 and his son J.J. Mitchell was granted $200 burial expenses from the pension fund due deceased pensioners.

Pvt. James R. Malcom (1815 – 1895)

Co H, 4^th Reg Ga State Militia "Dock Owens Co."

In the desperate days of 1864 as Georgia Governor Joseph E. Brown begged for troops, Capt. Dock Owens assumed command of a state militia company from Walton County. It was made up largely of old men and young boys and this is the company that James R. Malcom and many of his relatives joined. They were also called "Joe Brown’s Pets".

James r. was born 14 Nov 1815, the third child of Elder George W. and Susannah Malcom and grandson of James Malcom. On 17 Mar 1835 in Walton County, he married Caroline Peters (1815 – 1893) who was the daughter of John and Sarah Haynes Peters.

The seven of their thirteen children who reached adulthood were: Mary Jane (J. R. Thompson), John Thomas (Eliza Jane Hogan), Sarah (Daniel, Malcom, Barrett, Adcock, Partridge), James D. (Malcom, Lewis, Weldon), Joel C. (Anna Eliza Almond), Georgia (J. H. Adams), and Emma (W. C. Langford). Two of the infant siblings, Nancy (1846 –1846) and Susannah (1842 – 1846) have two of the oldest inscribed markers in the Malcom-Green Cemetery.

Caroline Peters Malcom and her brother, James Monroe Peters, married James R. Malcom and Elizabeth Malcom, the latter two also being brother and sister and children of Elder George W. Malcom.

Pvt. John Richardson Thompson (1821 – 1915)

Co. H, 4^th Ga. Reg. State Troops

John Thompson was born Feb 14, 1821 in Mississippi, the son of William and Sarah (Harris) Thompson who came to Walton Co with their family in a steer cart when Johnnie was eight years old. He was thirty-seven when he married Mary Jane Malcom (1836 – 1927), daughter of James R. and Caroline (Peters) Malcom, a union that lasted 57 years and produced ten children.

Their children were: William F (Landers), Jasper N. (Ida Anderson), James T. (Fannie Almond), John H. (Died age 24), Joel Harris (Allie Lura Cook), Lewis A., Mary Caroline (John R. McCullogh), Isaac Mathis (Bessie Mae Malcom), E. Jordon (infant son), Minnie (Henry Lee Chandler).

Although listed in the 1863-64 Manpower survey as "diseased", Johnnie Thompson enlisted in 1864 in the Dock Owens Company and remained in service until honorable discharged 9 April 1865.

At the time of his death at his home in Good Hope, he was just days short of his 94^th birthday and was Walton County’s oldest man. Quoting from his obituary: "Uncle Johnnie was a brave and true soldier and was in the Battle of Griswoldville. For a number of years he was a loyal, enthusiastic member of the R. E. Lee Camp Walton Confederate Veterans. He was for 56 years a member of Jack’s Creek Primitive Baptist Church and was…. Recognized as one of the finest leaders of Sacred Harp music. His life began when there was no railroad, no telegraph, no electricity in use. No gasoline or kerosene oil, nor matches to even light the tallow candle.

Interment was in the Malcom-(Green) cemetery, the body being borne to its last resting place, under the "Stars and Bars" by Comrades J. J. Cox, J. T. Malcom, J. M. Peters, I. T. Hogan, W. A. Rogers, and Dr. James L. Long."

Pvt. James M. Peters (1817 – 1895)

Co H 4^th Ga State Militia

James enlisted in July 1864 in this company of boys, old men, and wounded soldiers as Sherman’s troops neared. These units were called "Gov. Joe E. Brown’s Pets", but did see heavy action at the Battle of Griswoldville and Battle of Atlanta.

He was born in Greene County, GA the son of John and Sarah (Haynes) Peters and the spouse of Elizabeth A. Malcom (4 Nov 1823 – 19 Aug 1893) whom he married 22 Aug 1838. Elizabeth was the daughter of Elder George W. Malcom and granddaughter of Revolutionary War soldier James Malcom.

James Peters’ mother was the daughter of Revolutionary War soldier Moses Haynes of Virginia and Elbert Co, GA. James’s brother, William, and sister, Caroline, also married Malcoms. 1850 and 1860 census records for Walton County show James and Elizabeth had two children, Frances A. and John M. (Lucinda Smith).

Pvt. John M. Peters (1847 – 1917)

Co H, 4^th Ga State Militia

On 20 June 1864 John married Lucinda E. Smith (1847 – 1910), when he was sixteen and his bride a few months older. The following month he enlisted with his father and other relatives from Walton County in the State Militia known as Joe Brown’s Pets and saw action in the Battle of Griswoldville.

He was born 3 Aug 1847 and died 21 Jan 1917, the only son of James M and Elizabeth (Malcom) Peters. John and Lucinda’s eight children were: Frances Elizabeth (George N. Robison), James Henry (Cora P. Adams), George William (1. Lilla Lou Malcom, 2. Sarah Olivia Adams), John Thomas (Georgia Starks), Rice Green (Claud Rainwater), Sallie Moode (Hardy Adair), Maude (Ganaway Adair), Joe Nunnally (Ruth Cooper).

"Papa John" was a member of the R. E. Lee Camp Walton Confederate Veterans and a Primitive Baptist.

Rev. William E. Ivey

Pvt. Co K, 2^nd Reg Ga St Line

William E. Ivey was born in Georgia in August 1847 and in July 1863 at age sixteen entered the Georgia State Line and fought until the surrender. He was with Co K, 2^nd Regiment in Columbus, Georgia at the close of the war.

During hostilities in the Battle of Atlanta, a ball passed through his left hand causing the middle finger to be amputated.

After the war he returned to Walton County and listed himself as a farmer with a wife and one child when he applied for a veteran’s pension in Feb 1889. He was granted $5.00 for the loss of his finger.

Buried near him are his wife Frances A. (1845 – 1924), daughter Lizzie (died 1891, age 17), and two sons, Seaborn and John A. both of whom died three weeks apart in 1893 at ages 23 and 21, respectively.

At this time William E. Ivey’s other children and his relationship to the Malcom family buried here is undetermined. His tombstone has the title "Rev" before his name, and a William Ivey was an early minister of the Ebenezer Baptist Church which was a local Missionary Baptist church organized in 1869.

Credits

Anita B. Sams, Wayfarers in Walton, A History of Walton County, Georgia 1818 – 1967. May be purchased from the Walton Tribune, Monroe, Georgia. [Note by Victor 07/17/00: this book is not currently available from the Tribune. You may wish to check with the Walton Historical Society at the address noted below, or obtain the book through interlibrary loan.]

Anita B. Sams, With Unabated Trust. Major Henry McDaniel’s Love Letters from Confederate Battlefields as Treasured in Hester McDaniel’s Bonnet Box. Walton County Historical Society, Monroe, Georgia.

In Remembrance, Cemetery Readings of Walton County, Georgia. Walton County Historical Society. [Note: The Georgia Department of Archives and History has an index to this work, prepared in 1985 by Frances Rogers Cheney of Poway, CA.]

Captain W. L. Calhoun, History of the 42^nd Regiment, Georgia Volunteers (Infantry), Confederate States Army. Published Atlanta, Georgia July 22, 1900.