Jackson County Confederate Veteran Graves
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Lawrence Cemetery
GPS N30°45.886' W85°10.930
Rev. Richard Carey Blunt Lawrence - Oliver Rostrum
Reverend Richard C. B. Lawrence
Captain Jesse Norwood's "Cradle to Grave" Militia
Richard Carey Blount Lawrence, son of Peter Payne Lawrence and Nancy Anne
Blunt, was born in North Carolina, 25 Feb 1818. During the Battle of
Marianna he sustained a bullet wound to the fleshy part of his thigh during
the fighting around St. Luke's Church. He took refuge in a blacksmith shop
behind the church where he was rescued by his family with the help of a
Union sergeant.[EGA DATABASE - THE BATTLE OF MARIANNA]
Private Oliver Rostrum
Company C, 1st Florida Reserves
Oliver Rostrum was born in New York on 20 Jan 1815. He is listed as a Merchant Tailor in the 1860 Jackson County census. He enlisted as a private in Company C, 1st Florida Reserves on 2 May 1864. He was at the Battle of Marianna on 27 Sep 1864. He remained in the 1st Florida Reserves until he was surrendered at Quincy, Florida, 2 May 1865. Oliver died on 17 Feb 1884, and is buried at the Lawrence Cemetery, near Merritt's Mill Pond, Marianna, Florida. [EGA DATABASE - THE BATTLE OF MARIANNA]
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