Last Updated on June 26, 2012 by Interviewer: Edwin Driskell Person Interviewed: Lewis Favor Location: Atlanta, Georgia [TR: informant also referred to as Favors in this document.] Among Atlanta’s few remaining ex-slaves is one Lewis Favors. When he fully understood this worker’s reasons for approaching him he consented to tell what he had seen and […]
Last Updated on November 1, 2011 by Supply Sergt., F. Artly., Baty. F, 316th Regt., 81st Div. Born in Perquimans County, N.C., May 31, 1892; son of Jacob W. and Martha Essie Darden. Entered the service at Hertford, N.C., Sept. 20, 1917, and sent to Camp Jackson, S. C., and then transferred to Camp Mills,
Last Updated on November 1, 2011 by Sergt., 104th San. Train., Hdqrs. Co.; of Norfolk County; son of J. A. and Mrs. Marvian Darden. Entered service Aug. 18, 1917, at Norfolk, Va. Sent to Camp McClellan, Ala. Sailed for France. Promoted to rank of Sergt. May 5, 1918. Fought at Haute-Alsace, Champagne, North of Verdun
This survey of Wintergreen Cemetery, Port Gibson, Mississippi, was completed in 1956 by Mr. Gordon M. Wells and published by Joyce Bridges the same year. It contains the cemetery readings Mr. Wells was able to obtain at that date. It is highly likely that not all of the gravestones had survived up to that point, and it is even more likely that a large portion of interred individuals never had a gravestone.
