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Lafayette Mayfield-First AL Cav USA

Littleville.
This writer, his father, mother and two sisters, and I. W. and T. R. Mayfield made a visit to Natural Bridge Friday. We went for the purpose of cleaning off the grave of one of my uncles, (Lafayette Mayfield,) who was killed in the war. He was a United States soldier, and was killed by some scouts and buried in the woods. It is a desolate place where he is buried. We also went to the bridge and had a nice time on our trip,—a trip that will long be remembered by this writer.

J. B. Weems

(Leighton News [Leighton, Colbert County, AL] 14 May 1909)
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Although Lafayette Mayfield was in the First AL Cav, USA, his recent tombstone says CSA.
Winston County Cemetery book page 372: Mayfield Cemetery with one name. Mayfield, Milton L. Pvt. Co. H AL Cav. CSA

Littleville & Natural Bridge are in Winston County, AL.
Leighton was half in Lawrence County and half in Colbert County until 1895, at which time it became totally a Colbert County community.

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