Long County GaArchives Photo Tombstone.....Wheeler, Jacob G. 
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Cemetery:           Elim Baptist Church Cemetery
Name:               Jacob G. Wheeler
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Tombstone of a Confederate Veteran 
Private JACOB G. WHEELER 
Co. D, 5th Ga Cavalry Regt
"Caption" 
Photo of the Tombstone of Private Jacob G. Wheeler, of Company D, 5th 
Georgia Volunteer Cavalry Regiment, Killed in DeKalb County Georgia in 
August 1864. He was burried originally in a seperate grave near the 
expressway in Decatur, Georgia.  His Toomb there was donated by the Ladies 
Preservation Society of Snellville, and was dedicated in 1920. His grave was 
the only impediment to construction of an important interchange, so the 
Georgia DOT arrainged to have the body relocated to his home Church, and 
reinterred.  He was reinterred in the Elim Baptist Church Cemetery in Long 
County GA, with full military honors by the Liberty Independent Troop, GA 
ANG.  The Liberty County Chapter DAC was in charge of the program. 


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