James P. Vance Memorial Service
Fort Heiman Camp will hold memorial service
By Special to the Ledger
Murray Ledger & Times
Fort Heiman Camp # 1834, Sons of Confederate Veterans, Murray, will conduct a memorial service and military grave marker dedication for Pvt. James P. Vance (1842-1862), a Confederate soldier of Company H, Third Kentucky Infantry, CSA, on Sunday at 2:30 p.m., at Haynes Cemetery, Calloway County. Kentucky Division Chaplain Rev. Joe Thorn will be conducting the service. The new military headstone was acquired through the help of VFW Post 6291 of Murray. The public is invited to attend.
Pvt, Vance of Calloway County was severely wounded in action at the battle of Shiloh, Tenn., April 6-7, 1862 and captured on the field of battle. He was transported to Paducah as a wounded prisoner of war, but less than two weeks later he died there in a hospital. His body was then brought home and buried, now lying alongside other members of the Vance family.
To get to the cemetery from the intersection of Fourth Street and Main Street/ Highway 94 in Murray take Ky. Hwy. 94 East 10.4 miles to Highway 1346; turn right onto Highway 1346 and go 1.1 miles to Kirk Ridge Road; turn left onto Kirk Ridge Road and go 3.1 miles to Haynes Cemetery Road; turn slight left onto Haynes Cemetery Road and go 0.6 miles to Haynes Cemetery overlooking Kentucky Lake.
Pvt. Vance was born December 15, 1842 in Calloway County, Kentucky, to parents Andrew and Parmelia (Cunningham) Vance. At the age of 19 years old he would die April 18 or 20, 1862 at Paducah, McCracken County, defending the principles of the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution. Vance had reached the fateful conclusion of his life by enlisting with other brave and valorous men from his community on July 22, 1861 in Company H, Third Kentucky Infantry, Confederate States Army.
Story created Oct 22, 2009 - 12:11:05 EDT.
The above article was found online here: http://www.murrayledger.com/articles/2009/10/22/community/community02.txt
Craig Thweatt of the area was kind enough to attend the services and email me some photographs that he stated I could place online.
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