From: Bill Brown <bbrown31@bellsouth.net>
Subject: Z Dutton
Date: 1999-02-06 19:21:06
I have been traveling recently through Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Tennessee, South Carolina. I haven't had much time for genealogy on trips, but I have found some information. I located the grave of Z Dutton 1821- March 1864 who was born in Lawrence County Alabama, but moved to Walker County prior to his enlistment in the Confederate Army in 1863. Joseph Richardson indicated that Z Dutton died at Hood Hospital at Covington, Georgia. I found his grave on the campus of Emory at Oxford College at Oxford Georgia (2 miles north of Covington.) He is buried in a cemetery for Civil War dead, which is located near the old gymnasium of the college, with thirty other grave stones. His gravestone reads: Z Dutton Co L 28 ALA March 1864 He probably died in one of the older buildings on the Emory at Oxford campus, which were used for field hospitals during the war. Most likely Z. Dutton was a casualty of the Battle of Atlanta and other battles associated with Sherman's March across Georgia to Savannah. Located graves of several of my grandfather's descendants in North Alabama and did some research at Elmwood Cemetery in Birmingham for Eula. My younger son Steven G. Brown, has recently moved to Columbus, Mississippi. We will be traveling there frequently. If possible I would like to visit some of the Z Dutton descendants who may be along the way of our travels. Gerald, please send me your address and phone number, since I go through the Jasper area occasionally. Dale