| Date of Death | October 11 1915 |
|---|---|
| Buried |
Plot
G
Row
5
Grave
5
Corozal American Cemetery |
Notes
Alfred Avery was born in 1840 in Newport Alabama. He served as a Captain in the Confederate 45th Alabama Regiment where he was wounded twice. At the Battle of Franklin, Tennessee, he was taken Prisoner of War by Union Forces and imprisoned at the Johnson's Island Prison. After the war, he engaged in business in Meridian, Mississippi then Oakdale, Pennsylvania. In 1905, he and his wife moved to the Canal Zone where he worked as a watchman for the Quartermaster Department, Isthmus Canal Company, living in Cristobal. Captain Avery died on October 11, 1915 at the Ancon Hospital. He was buried with military honors at the Mt. Hope Cemetery then reinterred at the Corozal American Cemetery in 1979 next to his wife, Harriet Semmes Avery.