This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xhC.2ACE/748 Message Board Post: I am searching for info. on my greatgrandfather Sgt. L.S. Welch he is buried at Cokes Chapel Cemt. in Ward AL. Sumter co. he has a confed. grave marker but it does not list regmt. or any vital inf I can go by I know my greatgrandmother Wille G. Welch recieved a confed. widows pension inSumter co. AL. it is listed in the local pensions book but no other records can be found. I know my granddad lived in Newnan Ga.County of Cowetta at the time he was 16yrs. of age I have checked Ga. and Al. and Virg.archives dept."s but have came up empty handed. can anyone please help me my oldest son would like to join the Sons of the Confederacy. again his name was LeAnder Southerland Welch onhis headstone it reads Sgt. L.S. Welch. He was the son of James Welch and Ellen Gailbreath Welch of Newnan Ga. county of Cowetta.