Pike County GaArchives Biographies.....Virden Family Records ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Barbara Slade Dayhuff http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00029.html#0007161 Oct 2003 This information comes from HISTORY OF UPSON COUNTY, GEORGIA by Carolyn Walker Nottingham and Evelyn Hannah. I purchased my copy of this book from the Upson County Historical Society of Thomaston, Georgia, I do not remember the cost. Original printing 1930, first reprint 1969, and second reprint, 1982 by Southern Historical Press, Inc., P.O. Box 738, Easley, South Carolina 29640. Census of 1850 page 559: Elizabeth Virden age 56 place of birth North Carolina Thomas age 18 occupation none place of birth Georgia Pricilla age 16 Benjamin age 14 David Adams age 21 occupation Overseer page 673: Thomas G. Virden is listed as a Private. - Woodson Guards, Company I, first enlisted as Company I under Dr. Thomas O. Heard as Captain in the 6th Georgia Regiment for six months, and in about a week after the company went into service Dr. Heard was promoted from Captain to Lieutenant-Colonel, and A. B. Mallary from 1st Lieutenant to Captain; and at the expiration fo the six months, the Company was organized as Company I under John F. Lewis as Captain in the 32nd Regiment, and enlisted for the war under John F. Lewis as Captain, Company I, 32nd Georgia Regiment. - page 685: Judge matthews' Pension List (War Between the States) Mrs. Zippie N. Virden, (wife of Thomas G.) page 397: Virden Cemetery Near Topeka Junction: Eliza Virden, born Died July 8, 1842 - age 24 yrs. Zilphey N., born Oct. 8, 1835 died Oct. 12, 1913, (wife of T. G. Virden) Thomas D. Elliot, born Oct. 24, 1828 died March 2, 1878 Levinie Ann Virden Stocks, born 1852 and died 1875 Elizabeth Colley, born and died June 14, 1847 - age 26 yrs. Thomas G. Virden, born Oct 4, 1831 and died June 13, 1903 William Virden, born and died Nov. 13,1841 - age 50 yrs. THE CEMETERIES OF UPSON COUNTY, GEORGIA, (third edition) Compiled by the Members of the Upson Historical Society page 285: Virden Cemetery, copied by Clarence Smith, February, 1968 Ethel Cheek, b. 9/6/1886, d. 1/14/1889, daughter of W. J. and Tommie Cheek Eugenia Cheek, b. 3/19/1891, d. 3/22/1891, daughter of W.J. and Tommie Cheek Ola F. Cheek, b. 11/3/1884, d. 12/22/1888, daughter of W. J. and Tommie Cheek Eugenia F. Elliott, b. 11/28/1866, d. 11/28/1889 thomas D. Elliott, b. 10/24/1828, d. 3/2/1878 Levenie Ann Virden, B. 1852, d. 1875 Zilphe Virden, B. 10/8/1835, d. 10/12/1913, wife of T. G. Virden Thomas G. Virden, b. 10/4/1831, d. 6/13/1903 Elizabeth Colley, b. 1821, d. 8/24/1847 William Virden, b. 1791, d. 11/13/1841 - (was in War of 1812) Eliza Virden, d. 7/8/1842, age about 24 yrs. Joel Burnett, b. 4/13/1869, d. 1/26/1926 R. T. Burnett, b. 12/10/18?, d. 1908 Nelie C. Byars, b. 11/12/1883, d. 1/15/1946 J. T. Burnett, B. 10/23/1852, d. 6/6/1941 Mattie Adams Burnett, b. 7/4/1855, d. 11/17/1947 Julia Burnett Martha Elizabeth Caldwell, b. 9/27/1894, d. 9/27/1894 James Alton Caldwell, b. 4/25/1909, d. 8/12/1909 Alma Bell Caldwell, b. 1/26/1898m d. 9/2/1909 Bertha Louise Caldwell, b. 8/12/1915, d. 7/29/1916 Ida Lou Caldwell, b. 6/18/1875, d. 10/7/1917 William Henry Caldwell, b. 11/24/1873, d. 1/11/1924 Henry Clarence Caldwell, b. 2/9/1914, d. 11/6/1935