“Last Saturday Jake Davis Post, GAR, of Sciotoville, and Wheelersburg Post, united in the duty of decorating the graves of their fallen comrades. Wheelersburg Post marched down and met Davis Post at the Rowley Cemetery, a short distance above Sciotoville, where they united, and with the assistance of the ladies’ committee strewed with floral offerings the graves of five soldiers there interred. The column then reformed and headed by the Chaffin’s Mills drum corps returned to Wheelersburg and went to the beautiful cemetery on the hill, and with fitting exercises decorated the graves of the twenty-six soldiers there buried. Outside of Greenlawn this is the most attractive cemetery in the county. Located on a hill it is observed for miles, and it never appeared more beautiful than on that bright memorial morning, with its dark green foliage and wealth of flowers set off by the white dresses of Porter’s bright-eyed daughters, while over the bowed heads of bronzed boys in blue floated the starry flag. Those “boys” of the Grand Army were looking older than they did twenty years ago, when in this same cemetery many of them walked with their sweethearts, and with the rose and mignonette pinned upon the lapels of their blouses gazed at the fair village and flowing fields beneath them, and thought how soon the scene would be changed for fields of carnage in the distracted Southland.
“The grave of Captain Jacob Davis received special attention. Captain Davis was captain of Company C, Fifty-third regiment, and was living in Sciotoville when the war broke out. He was a man of courageous daring, both in and out of the army, and was killed on the skirmish line before Atlanta, while reconnoitering the enemy’s line through a field glass. A sharp-shooter singled him out and shot him between the eyes, killing him instantly. Captain Davis was a brother of the Davis boys of this city, and brother-in-law of JH. Johnson and Captain William Burt, Davis Post, of Sciotoville, is called in his honor.”
“The soldiers buried in the Wheelersburg cemetery served mostly in the Thirty-third, Fifty-third, Thirty-ninth and Fifty-sixth regiments. The citizens of the village and the surrounding country take a laudable pride in the resting place of their deceased friends and relatives, both soldiers and civilians, and joined in the exercises of memorial day in large numbers.”1
