“Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.” Michel de Montaigne
Warthen Family Cemetery Veterans
Dr. Thomas Warthen Gilmore Jr.
December 10,1930 – December 22, 1997
Warthen Family Cemetery,
Warthen, GA
Andrew Barry Irwin
Lieutenant
Captain Irwin’s Invincibles
38th Georgia Regiment
Killed in action in Richmond, Virginia
Confederate States of America
March 4, 1838 – July 24, 1862
Warthen Family Cemetery,
Warthen, GA
Reason Whitehead Irwin
1st Lieutenant
Co. B, 6th Alabama Infantry
Confederate States of America
October 8, 1840 – March 5, 1907
Warthen Family Cemetery, Warthen, GA
George D. Warthen
Private
Confederate States of America
July 16, 1847 – December 1, 1927
Warthen Family Cemetery, Warthen, GA
Howell’s Battery of Artillery from Washington County that was attached to Martin’s Battalion, Stevens’ Brigade. Wounded in the Battle of Jonesboro.
George Lee Warthen
Captain
United States Army
World War II
November 24, 1905 – May 18, 1975
Warthen Family Cemetery, Warthen, GA
Macon Warthen
Private
Member of the 28th Georgia Regiment commanded by his uncle, Colonel Thomas Jefferson Warthen
Confederate States of America
May 28, 1843 – February 27, 1914
Warthen Family Cemetery, Warthen, GA
Milton Elijah Warthen
1st Lieutenant
Jackson Guards
1st Regiment of State Troops
Confederate States of America
April 22, 1839 – December 25, 1914
Warthen Family Cemetery, Warthen, GA
Richard Lee Warthen
2nd Lieutenant
Co. B, 7th Georgia Calvary
Confederate States of America
Delegate to Constitutional Convention of 1877
June 26, 1827 – April 22, 1914
Warthen Family Cemetery, Warthen, GA
Thomas Warthen
1st Lieutenant
Confederate States of America
February 28, 1829 – March 15, 1892
Warthen Family Cemetery, Warthen, GA
He was in a company from Walker County in the 60th Georgia Regiment in the army of Northern Virginia.
Thomas Milton Warthen
United States Army
World War II
April 3, 1907 – July 6, 1981
Warthen Family Cemetery, Warthen, GA
Gregory Curtiss Willis Jr.
1st Lieutenant
United States Army
Vietnam
Bronze Star Medal Recipient
1946 – 2019
Warthen Family Cemetery, Warthen, GA
Gregory Curtiss Willis Sr.
1st Lieutenant
United States Air Force
World War II
April 7, 1919 – August 21, 2009
Warthen Family Cemetery, Warthen, GA
Bennie Pat Wolfe
United States Army
Served in Germany
July 29, 1933 – January 11, 2019
Warthen Family Cemetery, Warthen, GA