Home

4th Corp. John R. Westbrook

warning: date(): It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected the timezone 'UTC' for now, but please set date.timezone to select your timezone. in /home/thga/public_html/drupal/modules/counter.module on line 103.
Submitted by dnichols on Sun, 01/02/2011 - 17:08

Westbrook, John R. – John Reece Westbrook, Pvt. 5/15/1862. Appointed 4th Corp. Aug/1863 ; 5th Sgt. In 1864. Sick in Lynchburg, Va. hospital Oct/1864. No later record.

Born Oct. 14, 1837, died Nov. 11, 1895, buried at New Hope United Methodist Church Cemetery, Forsyth Co., Ga.

The Baptist Leader
January 3, 1896

Chestatee Lodge No. 102, F. & A.M., December 12, A.D. 1895, A.L. 5895. Wooley's Ford, Georgia, Whereas, it has pleased God the Grand Master of all true Free and Accepted Masons to call our brother John R. Westbrook from labor to refreshment by death and summoned him to the Grand Lodge above on the 11th day of November last . Therefore be it resolved, That in the death of our worthy and beloved brother J.R. Westbrook, this lodge loses one of its best members, the M.E. church one of its shining lights, the county one of its best citizens, the wife an affectionate husband, the children an affectionate and loving father... A.J. Julian, W.E. Bolding, T.J. Brice, Committee.

Mason emblem on tombstone.


Theme port sponsored by Duplika Web Hosting.
Home Back To Top