In this cemetery are buried the members of the family of Emma Sansom, heroine of The War Between the States, whose home was nearby. Buried here are Micajah Sansom, father of Emma Sansom Mattie Forrest Johnson. Infant daughter of Emma Sansom Robert Turner. A confederate soldier killed in the Skirmish at Black Creek Aunt Fanny, a beloved Negro Mammy It was May 2, 1863, that Colonel A.B. Streight, U.S.A., raced through Gadsden after having burned the bridge across Black Creek with General Nathan B. Forrest, C.S.A., close behind. Emma Sansom was standing on a rail fence watching the bridge burn when General Forrest rode up and inquired if there were other crossings over the creek which was flooded at the time. Forrest carried a large amount of artillery and frequently dismounted his troops and fought them as an infantry unit, necessitating heavy wagon equipment. Miss Emma Sansom recalled that she had seen cows fording the creek nearby. She mounted behind General Forrest and piloted him and his anxious army down a ravine and across the creek, enabling them to save Gadsden and Rome, Georgia from destruction and capture Streight's 2000 men with only 600 Confederates. Emma Sansom married Christopher Johnson and moved to Little Mount, Texas where she is buried.