Stress Relief !

For whatever reason I woke up today stressed out.

 So I decided to take a walk through Cedar Hill Cemetery.

I took a few Remembrance coins and my camera.

As soon as I got out of my car Church Bells in the distance started ringing.

So tag along and visit with me !

The Tom Smith Monument.

Pictures of random Confederate Soldiers ---

                Philip Barrand Baker                           

12th Virginia Infantry, Company A, Private

(Granted MD by the Univ. of Virginia January 28, 1862 ) Promoted

to Surgeon (Major ), 41st Virginia Infantry Baker was born August

5, 1828 in Norfolk, Virginia the son of Richard M. and Lelia

Barrand Baker. He married 1st - Lydia Maria Darden (1/10/1851- )

2nd - Rosa M. Mansfield (born 1860 ) the daughter of Joseph B.

and Lucy I. Minor Mansfield, in August 1876. In 1885 he was

practicing medicine in Suffolk. Philip died January 20, 1887 and

is buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery Block C, Lot 32.

                  Isaac F. Bush                               

Confederate State Navy

Isaac Bush was born in New York in 1835. He was buried in Cedar

Hill Cemetery Block C, Lot 54.

                 Thomas Washington Smith                          

16th Virginia Infantry, Company A, 2nd Lieutenant,

Smith was born on June 1, 1832 in Somerton, Nansemond County,

Va., son of Washington and Mary Powell Smith. He was a

businessman and clerk in Suffolk and North Carolina. He married

Harriett Goodwin Borland (b.3-18-1838 Murfreesboro, N.C.),

daughter of Roscuis Cicero and Temperance Ramsay Borland.  Smith

enlisted in April of 1861, was wounded several times but present

at the Surrender at Appomattox. Returning to Suffolk, he became a

businessman in general merchandising, president of Farmer's Bank

and Suffolk National Bank, president of Suffolk Cotton Mills, Lt.

Col. of the 4th Virginia Militia and a member of the Tom Smith

Camp of Confederate Veterans as it's Commander. He also raised

the money to erect the monument to the Confederate dead that

stands at the entrance to Cedar Hill Cemetery.  Smith died May 9,

1912 and is buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery Block D, Lot 96.

                  James Whitfield Turnley                          

Trambles Brigade, Artillery, Private 

Turnley was born May 2, 1837. He enlisted in June of 1861 and

remained to the end of the war. He married Sallie A. Jennings

(2/8/1839-9/25/1910) on February 4, 1858 and had three children.

Whitfield Turnley died July 3, 1899 and is buried in Cedar Hill

Cemetery Block F, Lot 92. 

                    Richard H. Brinkley, Sr.                         
13th Virginia Cavalry, Company I, 3rd Cpl.
Brinkley was born August 14, 1831 in Nansemond County, son of
William Eley and Mary Norfleet Brinkley. He was an auctioneer and
married Sallie A. Brooks (10/11/1840-1917), daughter of Joseph
and Elizabeth Goodwin Brooks of N.C. He died January 27, 1892 and
is buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery Block D, Lot 69.

              Alexander Washington Oliver                        

16th Virginia Infantry, Company A, Private

"Al" Oliver was born July 20, 1843 in Nansemond County, the son

of Sylvester and Mary E. Fluhart Oliver. He was a member of the

Tom Smith Camp UVC in Suffolk. He married Lucy "Anna" N. Johnson

(4/23/1849-11/11/1898), daughter of James Edward and Mercelia

Pierce Johnson on February 15, 1866 and had ten children. Al

Oliver died November 16, 1898 and is buried in Cedar Hill

Cemetery Block C, Lot 97.

13th Virginia Cavalry, Company I, Private

Later detached as Brigade Headquarters Clerk Daughtrey was born

in 1832 in Nansemond County. Before the war, he was a clerk

in the store of Benjamin D. Smith. He married Elizabeth Pugh.

I found no info.

And a few Random shots --

It was a peaceful stroll, thanks for taking a look !

Dave Tatum