Updated (Tributes) June 22, 2009

Born: DeKalb Co., GA - New Echota, GA - Fort Campbell, GA - M1:NC - M2: Campbell Co., GA - Gilmer Co., GA - Pickens Co., GA

Carroll Co., GA - Roswell, GA - M3: DeKalb Co., AL - Etowah Co., AL - Jackson Co., AL - M:4 Cullman Co., AL - Died: Franklin Co., AL

DEKALB COUNTY GEORGIA (1820/21) Born, the 1st child of Elizabeth (2nd wife)

We have a birth date for Wilburn of 20 Oct, 1819, last child of 1st wife
Counties mixed and merged in this period. Appears to be same area as Campbell County.
Campbell County was created on Dec. 20, 1828 by an act of the General Assembly.
Formed from portions of Carroll, Coweta, DeKalb, and Fayette counties

TRAIL OF TEARS - GEORGIA MILITIA 1838
New Echota, Georgia where Hamilton mustered in April 17, 1838
The Historical sign at New Echota
The Historical sign at Fort Newnan Stockade
This is Fort Newnan internment camp not far from Fort Campbell

NORTH CAROLINA (1838 - 1844) Married Catharine MARTIN and had Talitha and Henry Wilbor
Location not known yet but his brother Anderson also married a Martin in Buncombe County, North Carolina

CAMPBELL/FULTON COUNTY GEORGIA (before 1828 - 1855) Hamilton raised here, Catharine died, married Ary JACKSON 9/28/1849
1867 Campbell County Map
Hamilton Mayfield farm now Fairburn City Cemetery (document by Nancy J. Cornell of OCCHS)
Mayfield land now Fairburn City
Old Campbell County Courthouse sign
Old Campbell County Courthouse in Fairburn
The Campbell County family of Ary JACKSON (document)

FAYETTE COUNTY GEORGIA Anderson Mayfield family members still live there, just minutes from Fairburn
Geneva in Hopewell Cemetery, Tyrone, Fayette Co., Georgia
Meet Alvin Mayfield of Tyrone, Fayette Co., Georgia - Born 1913

GILMER COUNTY GEORGIA (1855 - 1856) Claimed his trophy land
Gilmer County Georgia where Hamilton's trophy land was originally located
View from the mountain pass entering Gilmer County

PICKENS COUNTY GEORGIA (1856 - 1860) Sold some land and had 5 children
The Talking Rock Baptist Church
The Bethany Church
Claudine and Louise Carney visiting the Bethany Church cemetery
This is the property Hamilton sold in 1855 and where we last see Ary
Marble Valley Historical Society tribute to Hamilton Mayfield (Sorry, it has been removed)
Hamilton - NEVER ON SUNDAY
Hamilton Sells 20 Acres to Thomas Taylor
Sharp Mountain Squaws - A reason to return to Sharp Mountain

CARROLL COUNTY GEORGIA (1860 - 1865) Living with Minerva Gipson and had 3 of 9 children
Returned to Roswell during the Civil War years
Bowden, Carroll Co., Georgia as seen at night
This is the Roswell Cotton Mill
This is the Woolen Mill defended by General Wheeler's ROSWELL BATTALION


MYRTLE HILL CEMETERY ROME, GEORGIA
The Confederate Cemetery in Rome, Georgia
The Headstone of Samuel McDonald 1st husband of Talitha
Research & census records for Tallitha and her family (document)
Talitha and Hugh Alexander Wilson buried in Atlanta Hollywood Cemetery. Advised not to visit this cemetery

DEKALB COUNTY, ALABAMA (1865 - 1869) Married Minerva
The Dekalb County Courthouse when Hamilton married Minerva
The Dekalb County Courthouse historical sign
Daughter Sarah who was born here in 1867, returned here to marry Jake Treece
in 1881 at the Black Oak Church, DeKalb County, Alabama

CULLMAN COUNTY, ALABAMA (1884 - 1885)
INDIAN WAR PENSION PAPERS FOR WIDOW SIGNED HERE IN 1907
Pension Statements by William and Elizabeth Hinkle Bradford (PDF)
Pension Statements by Rebecca Gipson Burch (PDF)
The Headstone for Rebecca Gipson Burch
Pension Statements by William Leander Gipson JP (PDF)
The Headstone for William Leander Gipson
The Headstone for Rev. Jacob Gipson
The Headstone for Edy (Edith) Mayfield Gipson
The Johnson Cemetery sign in Cullman Co Alabama
Routhann Hanby Mayfield second wife of Leroy Hamilton Mayfield
Johnson graves

BLOUNT COUNTY, ALABAMA
Maryette Mayfield in the Hanby/Hudson Cemetery Blount County, Alabama
Rebecca Hanby oldest headstone in Blount County, Alabama
Notes on Leroy's second marriage and the Hanby's (document)
Hanby Family Tree Blount County, Alabama (How does Ruthann Hanby relate?) (large file 889 kb)
Brigadier General Gabriel Hanby in Blount County, Alabama

HAMILTON H. MAYFIELD CIVIL WAR CEREMONY, Oak Grove Cemetery
FRANKLIN COUNTY, ALABAMA (1885 - 1907)
Hamilton's ceremony begins
Hamilton's flag is prepared
Hershel and Gertha Yocom meet Carl Mayfield
Reenactors set up the Civil War cannon
Reenactors raise the flags to begin
Rifle Salute
Cannon Salute
Folding the flag for presentation
Presenting the flag to Carl Mayfield
The haunting melody we know as "Taps" that is used at all military funerals
A photo slideshow by Andy Mayfield taken at the ceremony (With Virginia flowers as a bonus)

AT REST
Headstones of Hamilton, Minerva Evelyn Catherine Collins Gipson Mayfield and Nancy Hinkle Long Mayfield

SOME PHOTOS
Photos we have of Hamiltons children
Photograph of Minerva Evelyn Collins Mayfield

HAMILTON'S STORY (large pdf file 940 kb)
A chronology of events in Hamilton's life with details on Captain James Word and Lindsay's Mounted Militia (document)

MAYFIELD WORKSHEET (large file 994 kb)
A look at the JACOB MAYFIELD Family (photo)

A TRIBUTE to Hamilton's family members lost since starting this in 2006
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