Mrs. Waterman's "Boys"

Article by Thompson in the Wisconsin Magazine of History, Autumn 2008, Vol. 92, Issue 1, page 14.

Alice Whiting Waterman was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 1820 and moved to New York City at age ten.  In 1868, she moved to Madison, Wisconsin, and tended to the graves in Confederate Rest until her death in 1897.

In 1906, the UDC erected a monument to her for her many years of service to Confederate dead.

--Old Secesh

Forest Hill Confederate Cemetery

Ohio claims to have the northernmost Confederate military cemetery at Johnson's island in Lake Erie, site of an infamous prison.

Find-A-Grave has an article on Alice Waterman and picture of her tombstone.

--Old cemeter

Forest Hill Cemetery's Confederate Rest

There are five unmarked graves at Confederate Rest.

Two graves are marked Hamilton Infmger and William Infmgr.  I wonder if they were related.

Another grave belongs to GEORGE WASHINGTON SPEARS, of Co. B, 1st Alabama Infantry regiment, who died May 16, 1862.  he was sent to Camp Randall along with two of his brothers and shot and killed in a dispute with a Union guard.

Also, there was an A.F. Spears who also died.  Was he a brother of George Washington Spears?

In addition, there are graves for Isaac Taylor and Robert Taylor.

--Old Secesh

Forest Hill Cemetery: Alice Waterman

Her middle name was Whiting and she was born near the time Confederate General W.H.C. Whiting was born and I am wondering if perhaps she was the sister of the general.

I haven't found out much about her, however.  What I have found out:

ALICE WHITING WATERMAN  (Oct. 18, 1820-September 13, 1897)

Born Baton Rouge, Louisiana.  A marker for her was erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy reading: "The patron saint of Confederate Rest.  Almost single-handedly restored the Confederate cemetery at Forest Hill.  A native of New Orleans, she found the tombstones in 1868 lying amid weeds and spent 30 years maintaining the plot, planting trees and hedges, and marking the graves.  When she died in 1897, she was buried their with "Her Boys."

--Old Secesh