Thomas Sherrod Richards Burial Site

The unnamed Cemetery is in a remote location in Chambers County, Alabama.
I am in the process of having the Cemetery marked and named.

Location is Chambers County in NE 1/4 of the NW 1/4 of section 9, township 24, range 25 E. It is 1000 feet S. SW of western end of the CSX railroad bridge crossing the Tallapoosa River. From the intersection of highways 77 and 22 in Wadley, proceed 1.1 miles west on 22. Turn left onto Chambers Road 135. Continue 1.0 mile to gate. Once through the gate, at 0.4 miles is the old Richards home place marked by several large oak trees.
After another 0.1 mile take a logging road to the right and proceed 100 yards to the grave sites.

At one time there were as many as perhaps twenty graves, but at the time there are only four remaining. These are the graves.

Thomas S. Richards
b. 10/12 /1767
d. 09/30/1846 (age 59)

Elizabeth Richards
b. 01/18/1805
d. 06/25/1890 (age 85)

Rufus S. Richards
b. 07/13/1838
d. 03/21/1864 (age 26)

James F. Richards
b. 08/30/1835
d. 11/19/1906 (age 61)

Rufus S. Richards was the younger brother of George Washington Richards. Rufus joined the Confederate Army on April 20, 1862 along with George and two of Amanda Lee's brothers. To George and all the descendants until 1975, his fate was unknown.
The family just said, "He never returned and we don't know what happened to him." This point grieved George W. Richards who named his first born son after his younger brother.
(My grandfather is Rufus Stonewall Jackson Richards.)

In 1975 searching the Military Records in the National Archives, June Richards Daab discovered his fate. He had been captured and had died in a Union Hospital in Richmond, Virginia of dysentery.
Now, we discover that his widowed mother and brother in Chambers County knew his fate. An example of no communication in those years after the Civil War. Times were very hard for all of them. How I wished my father and his generation knew what we know now.
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