Gone but not forgotten (Masonic symbol is on the tombstone)∼John Russell Cole, Jr.was my gr-grandfather. Joined Ebenezer Baptist Church on Tuesday evening, Aug. 28, 1855 after stating his experience. He was unanimously elected Clerk of the church the Sat. before 3rd Sabbath in Feb. 1861. He enlisted in Civil War on Sept. 11, 1861 in Huntsville, AL. Served in Co. A, 19th Alabama Infantry. He died in the War and is buried in pasture behind a house in Marvin Chapel Community (near Carrollton) in Pickens County (sometimes referred to as Windle Cemetery). Married (1) Martha Jane Morris on Jan. 22, 1854 and after her death he married (2) Elizabeth Jane (Lizzie) Locke, born Feb. 16, 1841 and died March 6, 1875, the daughter of Thomas Locke and Elizabeth Noland. After John Russell Cole, Jr. died in Civil War, Lizzie remarried to Bryant Lewis but at her death, she was buried at Bunn-Noland Cemetery in Pickens Co. with her Locke and Noland family and her family had "Cole" engraved on her tombstone. For more on the Cole family, see http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kithandkin2000/
Gone but not forgotten (Masonic symbol is on the tombstone)∼John Russell Cole, Jr.was my gr-grandfather. Joined Ebenezer Baptist Church on Tuesday evening, Aug. 28, 1855 after stating his experience. He was unanimously elected Clerk of the church the Sat. before 3rd Sabbath in Feb. 1861. He enlisted in Civil War on Sept. 11, 1861 in Huntsville, AL. Served in Co. A, 19th Alabama Infantry. He died in the War and is buried in pasture behind a house in Marvin Chapel Community (near Carrollton) in Pickens County (sometimes referred to as Windle Cemetery). Married (1) Martha Jane Morris on Jan. 22, 1854 and after her death he married (2) Elizabeth Jane (Lizzie) Locke, born Feb. 16, 1841 and died March 6, 1875, the daughter of Thomas Locke and Elizabeth Noland. After John Russell Cole, Jr. died in Civil War, Lizzie remarried to Bryant Lewis but at her death, she was buried at Bunn-Noland Cemetery in Pickens Co. with her Locke and Noland family and her family had "Cole" engraved on her tombstone. For more on the Cole family, see http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kithandkin2000/
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