From the Dec. 6, 2007 Andalusia (Al) Star-News by Curtis Thomasson.
A memorial service for Confederate veteran John Wesley Colquett was held Nov. 15th at his grave at Friendship Baptist Church. A new grave marker was places as more than 100 descendants and the Covington Rifle Camp SCV, UDC, and re-enactors looked on.
Eighteen other Confederate veterans are buried in the cemetery.
Jon Wesley Colquett, his great, great great grandson, unveiled the new marker. His great, great, great, great grandsons Trey and Walt Spurlin placed a small Confederate flag by the headstone.
John Colquett was born April 22, 1846, in Monticello, Pike County, Alabama. In 1862, he joined Co. H, 53rd Alabama Partisan Rangers and served until the end of the war. He was at the battles of Thompson's Station, Brentwood, Chicamauga, Dalton and Atlanta, then fought Sherman through Georgia and the Carolinas, surrendering with Gen. Joseph E. Johnston at Durham Station, NC, April 26, 1865.
His brother Calvin Charle Colquett, 16 years older, served in the same unit and was appointed lieutenant in July 1863 and was badly wounded the following year.
Another brother, Albert Bethen Colquett was only 15 when he enlisted in 1863. A third brother, David Franklin Colquett served in Co. K, 25th Alabama and died of disease May 18, 1862 and is buried in the Confederate Cemetery in Aberdeen, Mississippi.
One Alabama Family's Defense of Their Country. --Blockade-R
The Battle of Fort Fisher, N.C.
