CEMETERIES WITH BOLCH/BOLICK BURIALS
Last update 3 Sept 2007
Southern Cross of Honor, which was issued after the civil war to a select group of Confederate heroes.
While attending a reunion of Confederate veterans in Atlanta in July 1898, Mrs. Alexander S. (Mary Ann Lamar Cobb) Erwin of Athens, Ga., conceived the idea of bestowing the Southern Cross of Honor on Confederate veterans . Mrs. Erwin and Mrs. Sarah E. Gabbett of Atlanta are credited with the design of the medal: a Maltese cross with a wreath of laurel surrounding the words "Deo Vindice (God our Vindicator) 1861-1865" and the inscription, "Southern Cross of Honor" on the face. On the reverse side is a Confederate battle flag surrounded by a laurel wreath and the words "United Daughters of the Confederacy to the UCV." Mr. Charles W. Crankshaw of Atlanta was chosen to manufacture the Crosses, but the first order was not given until the UDC had secured a copyright (February 20, 1900). During the first 18 months of the Cross's availability, 12,500 were ordered and delivered.
Only a Confederate veteran could wear the Southern Cross of Honor, and it could only be bestowed through the UDC. Money could not buy the Cross; they were bought by loyal, honorable service to the South and given in recognition of this devotion. The first Cross ever bestowed was upon Mrs. Erwin�s husband, Captain Alexander S. Erwin, by the Athens (Ga.) Chapter on April 26, 1900.
These pages are to honor our fallen soldiers, men, women, & children of our Bolch families. It makes me proud to be a descendant of these Southern families. Thanks to them for all their hard work, trials & tribulations, devotion, and living for what they believed to make this such a great country to live. I am proud that my great great grandfather's fought for the Confederacy. It was about state's rights, not slavery, as the history books want you to believe.
NORTH CAROLINA
Bolch Cemetery, Catawba Co. NC
Fairgrove Methodist Church, Catawba Co. NC
Lebanon Lutheran Cemetery, Rowan Co. NC
Old St Paul's Lutheran Cemetery, Newton, Catawba Co. NC
St. Stephen's Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, Hickory, Catawba Co. NC
MISSOURI
St. Paul's Lutheran Cemetery also known as "Plank", Webster Co. Missouri
SOUTH CAROLINA
Catawba Baptist Cemetery, York Co. South Carolina
TENNESSEE
Lutheran Memorial Church Cemetery, Parrottsville, Cocke Co. Tennessee
Salem Lutheran Church Cemetery, Parrottsville, Cocke Co. Tennessee
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