Confederate Veterans Bicentennial Memorial - Hamilton, AL
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N 34° 08.521 W 087° 59.332
16S E 408830 N 3778344
Memorial on courthouse outside wall
Waymark Code: WMT7DF
Location: Alabama, United States
Date Posted: 10/08/2016
Published By:Groundspeak Charter Member BruceS
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County of marker: Marion County
Location of marker: Military St side, county courthouse wall, Hamilton
Erected by: Marion County Unit, Confederate Veterans
Date dedicated: 1977

Plaque text:

Confederate Veterans Bicentennial Memorial
Hamilton - Marion County, Alabama
In Memory of Re-Union 6th and 7th August 1904
Managers: Probate Judge Wm. R. White and Hon. Mack Pearce
Guest Speakers
Ex-rept. Wm. C. Davis, Hamilton - later Lieut. Gov. Ala.
Ex-Rept. Wm. W. Brandon, Tuscaloosa - later Governor, Ala.
Miss. Lillie Pearce, Hamilton

Captain J.P. (Jem) Pearce, commandant, Marion County Unit Confederate Veterans

[Names listed in columns on plaque, paragraphed here]

Barnes, James Sr. • Boyette, W.J. • Brown, W.A. • Britton, G.A. • Byrd, J.J. • Campbell, J. • Carnes, William R. • Cantrell, Huse • Carr, George • Clark, M.F. • Clay, William • Crane, M.L. • Davis, Sam R. • Dunn, John • Dunn, Robert E. • Emerson, M.L. • Falkner, W.W. • Felkins, B. • Flurry, R.D. • Franks, E.D. • Frederick, Gid • Gann, W.C. • Gaskin, R.G. • Gibbs, B.M. • Goggins, G.N. • Goggins, J.J. • Green, Perry N. • Hamilton, J.P. • Halcomb, W.I. • Harbin, J.L. • Harper, W.S. • Harris, Cable • Harris, M. • Henson, J.M. • Hightower, W. • Howe, E.N. • Hudson, Frank • Johnson, J.H. • Knight, Thomas • Lindsey, Thomas • Loyd, Isham J. • Mays, J.M.C. • McCarley, T.R. • McCracken, D.C. • McKenzie, K.F. • Middleton, William J. • Mills, Jim • Mills, R.S. • Nelson, A.B. • Nix, L.A. • Owens, John W. • Pearce, W.P. • Ralls, H.H. • Raney, J.P. • Riggs, H.K. • Robinson, George • Rogers, I.J. • Rye, A.H. • Rye, J.A. • Samford, D.S. • Shelton, Mack • Shotts, John Mack • Simmons, J.T.

Presented to the Marion County, Alabama Commissioners on 6th August 1977
C.S. Boots Tidwell, Chairman-District 3
Almon Dyer, District 1 • Hugo Stone, District 2
Brady Baccus, District 4 • Hugh Akers, District 5
Miss Jackie Idella Moore, Chief Clerk
By
Judge James F. Shotts Senior, Colonel U.S.A.R. Retired 1952
Present at re-union and oldest grandson of veterans Loyd and Shotts above

Date Installed or Dedicated: 01/01/1977

Name of Government Entity or Private Organization that built the monument: Marion County Unit Confederate Veterans

Union, Confederate or Other Monument: Confederate

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