Sons of Confederate Veterans Prattville Dragoon Tyrone
Crowley placed a couple Battle flags on the graves of 2 Confederate veterans,
one a Dragoon at Pratt Cemetery on Saturday July 27th. Tyrone used a couple
flags retrieved from the flag setting at Confederate Memorial Park in Marbury
to use at the Pratt Cemetery gravesites.
The two Confederates, William H Fay and T J Ormsby, in the Pratt
Cemetery. both died during the War for
Southern Independence. The following
information regarding these Confederate heroes was researched by Tyrone from a Pratt
Cemetery Census. The photos show their
markers and the Battle flags placed toward the back wall in the photo of the
cemetery.
William H. Fay Born:3-1-1841 Died:8-3-1864
"Born at Greensboro, Alabama and was shot at Atlanta,
Georgia. CSA"; (inscription is on south face of E.O Fay monument); (A
government marker reads "Serg. Co.K, 1st Ala lnfantry"); (He acted as
an unofficial chaplain for Co.K, reading the Bible and leading prayers in camp.
He was shot while trying to comfort wounded friends. lt is believed that he is
actually buried in Atlanta, not here.)
"T.J.Ormsby, CSA"; (There is also a flat
government marker which reads "1st Serg. Co.H,3rd Ala.
Cavalry, Prattville Dragoons, 1829-1862." This member of
the "Prattville Dragoons" was shot and killed by the Yankees outside
of Corinth, Miss. on April 9, 1862, two days after the Battle of Shiloh. He was
the son of Clarissa Ormsby.
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