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Captain Philip Threlkeld honored with Confederate burials marker
A wooden teacher and Civil War captain Philip Threlkeld, organizer of Roddy's Fourth Alabama Cavalry, now has a white granite slab at Wallis Cemetery on Sand Mountain. Research by Spencer Waters and local resident Jack McDowell, backed by the Alabama Archives and National Archives, uncovered records, Rosters, and death timing placing Threlkeld around 1900.
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Pin Hook Spring
Thomas Simms
Roddy
Fourth Alabama Cavalry
Wallis
Sand Mountain
Philip Threlkeld
C.S.A
Shiloh
Corinth
Tennessee
J. H Wear
F. P. Wasson
Reddy
Russell
Tennessee Valley
Dodge
Tuscumbia
Town Creek
Streight
Brewer
Alabama
James Williams
C. J. Hyatt
Joseph Sloss
Thomas Williams
J. M. Weems
William H. Welsh
W. R Julian
John A. Steele
Thomas Dorherty
J. H. Shackleford
Ward McDonald
John Newsom
John C. Nelson
Jere
Moulton
Spencer Waters
State Department of Veterans Affairs
Threlkeld
Lawrence County
Thirlkill
Waters
Jack’’ McDowell
Wallis Cemetery
Oldtimer
Jack
Patsy Blankenship
Plato
Jack McDowel
Alabama Department of Archives
National Archives and Records Service
Bureau of the Census of the
Department of Commerce
National Archives
Moulton Advertiser
Lace
William White
McDowell
Bill Pate
A. J. Spiller
Doc” Blankenship