Eliza Wilhelmina was the devoted wife of Thomas N. Theus. She died on February 21, 1895 and was buried at Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah, GA.  Thomas N. Theus, Eliza’s husband, was a confederate soldier who served in Captain Wheaton’s Company, Chatham Artillery. He took his place at Eliza’s side eight years after her death on November 28, 1903.

Thomas Nichol Theus.

SAVANNAH, Ga., Nov. 28 — Thomas Nichol Theus, a well known Savannahian who was prominently related in Georgia and South Carolina, died at an early hour this morning.  He made a dying request that he be buried in Confederate gray, and he himself named six pall-bearers, all Confederate veterans.” [Macon Telegraph (Georgia), 29 November 1903, pg. 2

The tomb of Thomas N. Theus and his wife Eliza Wilhelmina at the Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah, Georgia. Thomas Theus, as the tomb indicates, was a Confederate soldier who survived the war. He buried his wife in 1895 and joined her eight years later in 1903.  Theus lived in Savannah and served in the Chatham Artillery – a four gun unit during the Civil War under the command of Captain John F. Wheaton whose most notable battle was the repulse of a Federal invasion at the Battle of Olustee, Florida in July of 1864. The unit surrendered in Greensboro, North Carolina on April 26, 1865.