Confederate Navy Research Center, Mobile, Alabama, www.csnavy.org
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Texas Gravesites
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Edna, Jackson County,
Memorial Gardens Cemetery
 
                    Courtesy Bob Barton of TX		 John E. Billups served on the CS Steamer FLORIDA with Capt. Maffitt on his famous run into Mobile Bay, Alabama and then left with it on the equally famous run out of the bay. 
Later was transferred by Capt. Maffitt in May 1863 with Lt. C. W. Read to the captured Clarence, then, Tacony-Archer and appointed Masters Mate by Read, continuing to serve with him on the James River Batteries and the CS Steamer WEBB on the Mississippi River.
 
           Courtesy Robert X. Billups---Great Grandson
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Corsicana, Navarro County,
Oakwood Cemetery, 15th Street, entrance North end, Sec. K, Row 5
 
                    Courtesy Roy Miller of TX		 Commander Isaac Newton Brown  
Born in KY. Appointed from MS.  
Commanded the CSS ARKANSAS  
and CSS CHARLESTON.   
"Promoted for gallant conduct in successfully engaging the enemy's fleet on the Mississippi River before the city of Vicksburg, while in command of the ironclad steamer Arkansas, on 15 July 1862"
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Dallas, Greenwood Cemetery, near old downtown. Located at Hall St. and McKinney Ave. in the old State Thomas district near the old trolly tracks still in use. Courtesy Curtis Flatt of TX 
Seaman Frank Delbrel
CSS Missouri
 		 Marlin, Falls County, Calvary Cemetery, located at Fortune and Bartlate Streets, 3 blocks from the NE corner of the Courthouse on Fortune St. Courtesy Ms. Marian Gibbs and Curtis Flatt of TX (great teamwork!) 
Very nice job of cleaning the stone
 
John M. Jolly
Born 9 August 1840 in SC; Died 19 December 1915
Served on CSS North Carolina and CSS Chicora as Ordinary Seaman
 
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AUSTIN
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Mr. Morgan Lewis kindly sent in this info initially.  Dean Letzring of TX has  sent in gravesite photos of these men.
Additional photos were sent in by Tom Waldrop of TX. Veterans home records sent by Clint Lynch, Director of Research.
Thank you all for the great response of Texans.
This shows what some great teamwork will produce.
We are not sure if they are all Navy.  Copies of obituaries would help identify them.
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TEXAS STATE CEMETERY
909 NAVASOTA STREET
AUSTIN TEXAS
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Take I-35 TO EXIT 234-B, ON TO 7TH AVE, DRIVE 6 BLOCKS, 
TURN EAST ON NAVASOTA to Entrance
 "Confederate Field Section"
(Images courtesy Tom C. Waldrop of TX)
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ROBERT L. COWAN --- ID # 148 SECTION #2 ROW V #33  CS NAVY  DIED 3/21/1890
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CAPTAIN CHARLES HENRY GODWIN ---ID# 158 SECTION #2 ROW V # 46
July 19, 1825--- December 1, 1891 (1890)  "CSS ALABAMA"
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LEWIS C. IRWIN--- ID# 141 SECTION 2 ROW V # 39
1828-12/23/1889  "SEMMES"
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THOMAS WOODS ---ID# 918 SECTION #1 ROW G #41
1832 (ENGLAND)- 8/8/1914 GUNNER SCHOONER "ALAMO"
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HERBERT MATTHEWS ---ID#181 SECTION 2 ROW U #28
1819-9/7/1893 "CSS PATRICK HENRY"
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Midshipman JAMES R. NORRIS ---ID#1349 SECTION 3 ROW F #4
1838-5/20/1921
(Note---The only one we found listed in the Register of Officers---Born in GA, Midshipman, served on the CSS Savannah;
Morgan; and Patrick Henry. Served at Charleston, Savannah and Mobile)
Images courtesy Dean E. Letzring of TX
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Republic Hill, Section One, Row L, Plot N 17
Image courtesy Texas State Cemetery Photo Archives
Phillip Francis Appell
also spelled Philip Appel
From the Register of CSN Officers: 
"Appel, Philip F.
Born in Prussia. Appointed from ~.. Master's mate, July 11, 1861. Acting
sailing master, October 14, 1861. Resignation tendered November 13,
1862. Appointment revoked, December 13, 1862.
Served on C. S. R. S. St. Phillip, New Orleans station, 1861. Detached
and ordered to Galveston, Tex., September 2, 1861. Commanding C. S. S.
Bayou City, 1861-62. Jackson station, 1862."
 
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AUSTIN
 
Oakwood Cemetery, Section 1
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2nd Lt. Everard T. Eggleston, CSMC
Served on CSS FREDERICKSBURG; Drewry's Bluff;  James River Squadron; Semmes Naval Brigade.
(Courtesy Dean Letzring of TX)
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W. F. Wilson in Hillsboro, Tx.
He was in the location mentioned in 1907.
Not sure he is buried there but good probability.
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Other Locations
If you can find these graves, please send in pictures of them (and GPS reading!).
Francis Marschalk may be buried in Gray's Hill Cemetery, Sherman, Texas (this info is now questionable---may be in MS)
William Francis Wilson, died 3 Feb. 1919, Port Lavaca, (Calhoun County) TX, buried Linworth Ceme. (info from John Luckey of TX)
(Above info courtesy Dave Sullivan of MA)---(additional info by Dean Letzring)
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Galveston
United Daughters of the Confederacy plot at Lakeview Cemetery:
(Info courtesy David Rawls, Jr.)
 
Lakeview Cemetery
John Vidovich
Lakeview Cemetery
William F. Rogers
Episcopal Cemetery
Charles Fowler
(Image courtesy Dean Letzring of TX)
(Images of Vidovich and Rogers courtesy Andrew Hall of TX)
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Hebrew Benevolent Society Cemetery. 
A small cemetery located in a complex of cemeteries 
at 43rd Street and Broadway

Levi Charles Harby
He is shown in official records as being a LT. in the CS Army  in command of artillery on the CSS NEPTUNE
but not in the CSN although his there is a record of him as being in the Marine Dept., probably of Texas.
(Image courtesy Dean Letzring of TX)
Lakeview Cemetery
Joseph Brockelman
Served in Texas Navy or Army on 
Gunboat Bayou City; Clifton; Sachem
(Image courtesy Dean Letzring of TX)
**NEW**
Old City Cemetery

Lt. Robert T. Chapman
CSS Sumter; CS Cruiser Georgia
Served London, New Orleans, Wilmington, NC.
Brought Confederate seal from London.
Battery Buchanan, Fort Fisher, NC.
(Image courtesy Dean Letzring of TX)
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Found the grave of:
William Lochiel Cameron who died in Galveston, Texas on November 13, 1918.  His
remains were shipped to Memphis, Tennessee for burial. A native of Buffalo, New York he
came to Texas in 1896 and lived in Galveston for 19 years (beginning in 1899)
until his death.  He was a member of a U.C.V. in Galveston.
(research info courtesy John H. Luckey of TX)
(Grave located in Memphis by Helen Tice of TN)
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Houston, Harris County
Glenwood Cemetery
Lucius T. Noyes, Acting Masters Mate
New Orleans and Jackson stations
Served on CSRS St. Philip
Glenwood Cemetery
Louis F. Delesdernier, Acting Masters Mate
(died 3 Jan 1913)
Served on CSS Baltic, Mobile Squadron
(he is located to the right of marker in unmarked grave)
 **NEW**
Glenwood Cemetery, Section E-1

William Allen Carrington
Born at Longwood, Prince Edward County, Virginia
Died at Waldens Ridge, Tennessee
Acting Midshipman, CSS Patrick Henry

(Images courtesy Dean Letzring of TX)
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Baytown, Harris County
Osgood family cemetery off Roberts Road near Cedar Bayou.
(Courtesy David P. Smith of TX)
James Osgood, also a Landsman/gunner on the CSS Morgan.
Nacogdoches, Nacogdoches County
Oak Grove Cemetery, Hospital St. and Lavana St.
csn
(Courtesy Dean Letzring of TX)
Albert Aldrich Nelson, Assistant Paymaster, CSN
Served  on Richmond station and Shreveport
 
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Livingston, Polk County
Old City Cemetery
John Fendall Carr
Shepherd, Walker County
Shepherd Cemetery
William H. Beazley
Images courtesy Dean E. Letzring of TX
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Sulphur Springs, Hopkins County
Sulphur Springs City Cemetery
Sunset Addition, North Portion, Block B, Lot 2
James M. Pearson, Master
Served on CSS Livingston; CSS Patrick Henry; Ironclad Palmetto State; CSS Hampton; Semmes Naval Brigade
 
Sulphur Springs Old City Cemetery
John W. Richey
Died 16 July 1871. Area 3/C, Lot 334. 
Served at the CS Navy Yard at Selma, Alabama
(Images and info courtesy John H.Luckey of TX)
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Gainesville, Cooke County
Fairview Ceme., Division 22, Block 3
(NE of Circle in Southern part of cemetery)
Archibald James Meriwether
Served in Georgia State Navy; CSN at Savannah and Mobile
Thornton, Limestone County
Thornton City Cemetery (SE section of old area)
James T. Brady, Ordinary Seaman
Served on CSS Virginia; Gunboat Lady Davis
(Images and info courtesy John H. Luckey of TX)
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