Civil War soldiers buried in the Oliver Springs Cemetery include: (from O. S. Book)

• Edmund Vann
• Lumpton Scarbrough
• Abraham Smith
• John Duncan
• R. C. McKamey
• Henry “Pony” Cash
• Major Edward Black
• Rev. William Brummett
• J. H. Taylor
• Capt. E. A. Reed
• Dr. Thomas A. West
• and possibly others

[December, 2025, update:  Thomas McNamara, a veteran of the Confederate and Union Armies, is buried in an unmarked grave in the Oliver Springs Cemetery.]

Drs. Henry and Theodore Sienknecht, Oliver Springs residents, served in the War. Captain Jim Bunn, a veteran, later lived in Oliver Springs and served as Town Marshall.

The large Butler, Galbrith [sic], and Griffith families had many members serve in the War; some with allegiance to the blue, and some to the gray. A number of these are buried in the Butler and Robertsville cemeteries.

Capt. John Hannah and Ethelbert Crozier, who survived the War but was shot down at his front gate after the War, are buried in the Robertsville Cemetery.

John G. Diggs, Sr., and John G. Diggs, Jr., starved to death as prisoners of war in the Andersonville Prison in Georgia.

James R. Davis and James B. Davis are old soldiers who are buried at Fairview.

James Madison Lockett was killed near Nashville.

Burials in the Dyllis Cemetery:

• Phillip Brashears
• Abraham Cox
• B. L. Hendrickson
• J. R. May
• Jake May
• Samuel Moore
• Tobias Peters
• Elisha Rose
• Goodman Webster [Capt. Louis M. Westers Co. G, 1st Tenn Reg of Mounted Inf. of the Union Army]
• John Webster Union Army
• Lafayette Wright
• William Lafayette Butler
• and possibly others

Michael Shipwash was private in Company K, 5th Regt. Tenn. Volunteered between 1862 and 1865 and was crippled in the left ankle.

Others in the Roane County area near Oliver Springs include:

• Harry B. Jones
• Richard Cox
• John H. Brashears
• John L. Brock
• Carrick S. Edwards
• Ivy Edwards
• John Massengill
• Thomas Ollis
• Isaiah Lawson
• Charles Coker
• Ambrose Foster
• Jonathan Coker
• James A. Sampsel
• John G. Hammons
• Samuel L. Maynard
• Garrison Ussery
• David A. Phillips

In the Morgan County, Coalfield-Oliver Springs area, the old Civil War soldiers included:

• David Jackson
• Richard Hudson
• Peter Ruffner
• Joe Nichols
• Christian Ruffner
• Peter Estes
• Horace Wright
• Thomas Goddard
• Carr Davis
• Joe Hacker (photos)