Hall County GaArchives News.....(GA) Man receives grave marker 130 years after death October 13 2003
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Neda Conley co51ne@aol.com October 19, 2003, 8:33 pm

Hopewell News, Hopewell, Virginia

He ran away from home, fought in several battles and was eventually captured. 
Sometime after being imprisoned, the Georgia soldier was traded in a prisoner 
exchange. Not even a month later he died and was buried in a mass grace. He 
died at only 19 years old and never married or had any children. Though his 
name was added to the register of the dead, his grave was never marked and for 
more than a century, the Georgia soldier's family didn't know where he was. But 
thanks to some investigation by his modern day descendants, the mass grave site 
where JAMES LAFAYETTE WOODY is buried has been found.Saturday his relatives 
placed a marker near where he is likely buried. "My uncle worried his whole 
life about what happened to [Woody]. He's 83 now, and when we told him what we 
had found, hos whole face lit up," said Myrtle L. Jackson, great-great neice of 
the dead soldier....Through family records, Jackson has been able to piece 
together what the Confederate soldier looked like. "He stood at 5 feet 11 
inches tall, had light brown hair and gray eyes......it is projected thaere are 
more than 30,000 dead Confederate buried in nameless graves in Blandford 
Cemetery. 

(NOTE: Blandford Cemetery is in Petersburg, Virginia. It is hugh with many, 
many graves.)

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