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Town Cemetery, Sparta
In the center of the beautiful little cemetery at Sparta sleeps the Demosthenes of Southern Methodism-Bishop George F. Pierce. On a mound of ivy, at the head of the grave, stands a superb shaft of marble, on which has been deftly chiseled an excellent profile of the illus- trious preacher. The moment is surmounted by an urn, and at the base in large raised letters is inscribed :
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On the front of the monument is the following epi- taph :
GEORGE FOSTER PIERCE, D. D., LL. D. Boru in Greene Co., Ga., Feb. 3, 1811. Died in Hancock Co., Ga., Sept. 3, 1884. Entered the Christian Ministry of the M. E. Church, South, in 1830. Ordained a Bishop of the M. E. Church, South, May, 1854.
On the left side :
As an orator he never had a superior. As a citizen he was a model. As a patriot he was loyal to his State. Georgia never gave birth to a nobler son.
On the right side :
He was the first President of Wesleyan Female Col- lege at Macon, Ga. For six years he was President of Emory College, at Oxford, Ga. The peerless preacher, the devoted husband and father, the humble and con- sistent Christian, he lived beloved and died lamented. "For me to live is Christ and to die is gain." St. Paul.
His beloved wife, Ann M. Pierce, sleeps beside him. His son, George F. Pierce, Jr., is also buried on the lot, besides a grandson.
Under a marble cube, surmounted by an urn, facing the main walk, is the grave of an old Revolutionary sol- dier. The monument is somewhat dingy with age, but the epitaph is still quite distinct. It contains the fol- lowing record :
ROBERT FLOURNOY, a soldier of the Revolution, departed this life the 6th of July, 1825, aged 62 years.
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In a grave covered by an old-fashioned box of marble sleeps the dust of a gallant officer of the struggle for independence, the inscription upon whose tomb is as follows :
GENERAL HENRY MITCHELL, who died May 17, 1839, in his 79th year.
To another distinguished soldier of Georgia there is a neat memorial stone on which appears the following inscription :
GENERAL EPPS' BROWN. Born Dec. 17, 1766. Died Aug. 27, 1827.
It is by no means least among the claims to distinc- tion possessed by this little cemetery at Sparta that it holds the dust of a distinguished citizen of Georgia, for whom one of the counties of the State has been named. On the door of a massive vault of granite, to. the left of the main entrance to the burial-ground, is a small metal plate, not much larger than a visiting card, on which appears simply the name :
WILLIAM TERRELL
Dr. Terrell was for years the most eminent practi- tioner of medicine in this section of Georgia. He amassed quite a handsome fortune, and left to the University of the State a legacy of $20,000, which still bears the name of the Terrell Fund.
Dr. Thomas Spencer Powell, the founder of the old Southern Medical College, in Atlanta, is buried under- neath a handsome shaft of granite in the cemetery at Sparta. The list of distinguished dead also includes
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Charles W. DuBose, a lawyer of note; Catharine Anne DuBose, his wife, a writer of singular gifts; and a num- ber of others. In vain one looks in the cemetery at Sparta for the tomb of Judge Linton Stephens. He is buried in the front yard of his old home, at the far end of the town, in what is now a thicket of magnolias, cedars, and oaks. There is no memorial slab or stone of any kind to mark the last resting place of this glorious Geor- gian.
Alta Vista, Gainesville
Occupying one of the central lots in Alta Vista Ceme- tery, surrounded by a magnificent amphitheater of hills, is the grave of Lee's old War Horse-General James Longstreet. The last resting place of the old soldier is marked by a huge boulder of mountain granite, hewn from the quarries of his own State. It suggests the rugged strength of character which belonged to the great field marshal of the South, and is also at the same time thoroughly artistic in design. The memorial was planned in every detail by his widow, the gifted Mrs. Helen Dortch Longstreet, who insisted that even the stone itself should be a product of the soil in which he sleeps. Crossed flags, representing the two national emblems for which he fought-Federal and Confederate-are chiseled tipon the front of the monument, beneath which, on a pol- ished surface, is lettered the following inscription :
JAMES LONGSTREET. In the military service of the United States, 1833-1861. Brigadier-General Con- federate States Army, June, 1861. Promoted Major- General, May 1862. Promoted Lieutenant-General, September 1862. Commanding First Corps of Northern Virginia to April 9, 1865.
On the rear is inscribed this couplet :
"How sleep the brave, who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest ?"
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On the left side:
Palo Alto to Chapultepec.
On the right side :
Manassas to Appomattox.
The monument occupies the center of the lot. Slightly to one side is the old hero's grave, on the headstone of which is inscribed : JAMES LONGSTREET, 1821-1904. In the same area sleeps his first wife, Maria Louisa Garland, whom he married at the close of the Mexican War. There are also other graves on the lot. His widow is so thor- oughly reconstructed that each year on Confederate Memorial Day she decorates the grave of General Long- street with the flag of the United States.
Some few feet distant, in a lot enclosed by a substan- tial wall of brick, is the grave of GOVERNOR JAMES M. SMITH, the first of Georgia's chief executives to occupy the chair of State after the days of Reconstruction. He was long a resident of Columbus, but his remains were brought to Gainesville for interment, because it was here that his wife was buried. There is nothing to mark the last resting place of the Governor; but over the grave of Mrs. Smith there stands a neat monument, which states that her maiden name was A. B. Hester, and that she died at the age of fifty-three years.
In the same neighborhood is the grave of GOVERNOR ALLEN D. CANDLER, recently marked by a handsome mon- ument, the gift of his appointees to office. On the same
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square is buried his distinguished father, Captain Daniel G. Candler. The latter's grave is marked by a neat shaft.
To the left of the sexton's office, in the center of the cemetery, is the grave of a distinguished surgeon and physician, in whose honor one of the counties of Georgia has been named. Under a design of sculptured lilies, on a marble monument, surmounted by an urn, is inscribed the following epitaph :
Sacred to the memory of DR. RICHARD BANKS. Porn Oct. 23rd, 1794, in Elbert Co., Ga. Died May 6, 1856, in this city. "What I do thou knowest not now, but thou shalt know hereafter."
Beside him sleeps his wife, Martha B. Banks, who survived him for twenty-five years, dying in 1881. The graves of two of his daughters are also on the same lot. His son-in-law, Captain Walter S. Brewster, a gallant Confederate officer, who lost his life in the battle of Fred- ericksburg, is also buried here. He died of his wounds on the day following the battle, December 14, 1862.
Among the other distinguished dead in Alta Vista Cemetery are Judge John B. Estes, a noted jurist; Colo- nel C. C. Sanders, a brave Confederate officer, after whom the local chapter of Children of the Confederacy was named, also a successful financier, a thorough Bible scholar and a great traveler; Major Theodore Moreno and Captain John Venable, both of them splendid sol- diers; Dr. James Wray Bailey, the renowned specialist; Colonel H. W. J. Ham, at one time a member of the Legislature, whose lecture on the "Snollygoster" made him famous; Dr. Emmet E. Dixon, and a number of others. The little cemetery at Gainesville is rich in his-
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torie dust, containing two Governors of the State, an eminent physician, for whom Georgia christened one of her counties, and a soldier who commanded the veteran First Corps in the immortal army of Lee.
Town Cemetery, Forsyth
Under a horizontal slab, to the extreme left of the main entrance, and only a few feet from the Confederate area, sleeps the mortal dust of JUDGE ROBERT P. TRIPPE, at one time a member of Congress, and afterwards an oc- cupant of the Supreme Bench of Georgia. The inscrip- tion on the tombstone reads as follows :
ROBERT P. TRIPPE. Dec. 21, 1819. July 22, 1900. "An honest man is the noblest work of God."
His wife sleeps beside him, and on the same lot re- pose two of his sons: ROBERT P., JR., and WILLIAM T., the latter of whom died by his own hand.
Here sleeps GENERAL GILBERT J. WRIGHT, a gallant Confederate officer and a well-known jurist. His grave is marked by a handsome headstone, on which the following epitaph is inscribed :
GEN. GILBERT J. WRIGHT. Born in Gwinnett Co., Ga., Feb. 18, 1825. Died in Monroe Co., Ga., June 3, 1895. A Confederate General. A profound Jurist. A Good Man with Many Virtues has Passed Away.
In a remote part of the cemetery sleeps a renowned Baptist clergyman, educator, scholar and author: DR.
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SHALER G. HILLYER. The substantial monument over his grave is surmounted by a handsomely carved urn, and the inscription, a gem, reads as follows :
REV. SHALER GRANBY HILLYER. Born, June 20, 1809. Died, Feb. 19, 1900. Ordained to the Baptist ministry, 1835, he continued to preach for sixty-five years, eloquent, profound and faithful even to the last. The sunrise of his life was like that on the morning hills, steady, sure, forever increasing unto greater bright- ness and a warmer glow; the sunset of his life was like that on the mountains at evening, full of quiet rest and glory. "The path of the just is as a shining light" etc.
His wife, DOROTHEA M. FURMAN, sleeps in a grave beside him, and on the monument there is an appropriate inscription to her also.
Just a short distance removed from the Hillyer lot sleeps JOHN MILLEDGE, a son of one of the early Gov- ernors of Georgia, and himself a man of note in his day. His grave is covered by a horizontal slab, bearing this inscription :
Sacred to the memory of JOHN MILLEDGE, who was born on the 8th day of January, 1814, and died on the 13th day of May, 1872. We who believe do enter into rest.
Beside him rests his wife, CATHARINE ELLIOTT.
One of the handsomest monuments in the cemetery marks the last resting place of HON. WILLIAM H. HEAD, a sagacious financier and man of affairs, who was a leader in the town of Forsyth and a power in the State.
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On the monument, a handsome shaft of marble, sur- mounted by an urn, is inscribed the following epitaph :
In loving memory of WILLIAM H. HEAD. Born, May 9, 1829. Died, Sept. 27, 1887. Aged 58 years, 3 months, and 28 days. Thy true worth cannot be record- ed on this perishing stone.
JUDGE CINCINNATUS PEEPLES, a noted lawyer and jurist, is buried here.
In this cemetery also sleeps HON. ZACHARIAH H. HAR- MON, a famous lawyer of the ante-bellum period.
Marked by a neat headstone is the grave of an emi- nent Georgian, who for many years adorned the Superior Court bench of this State. But the only inscription on the monument is as follows:
E. G. CABANISS. 1802-1872.
There is a like inscription for his wife, SARAH C. CABA- NISS, who followed him to the grave within four years.
Others of local prominence buried in the cemetery at Forsyth are: CYRUS SHARP (1799-1893), who died at the age of 96 years; AARON TALMADGE (1801-1879), WILLIAM T. MAYNARD (1818-1905), ISAAC W. ENSIGN (1820-1907), DR. L. B. ALEXANDER (1829-1890), DR. B. F. RUDICILL (1834-1901), ALFORD H. BRAMLETT (1835-1899), T. B. HOLLIS (1855-1901).
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Rose Hill, Macon
Situated on the green slopes of the Ocmulgee River, there are few burial places of the dead which, in natural charm, can surpass Rose Hill. It is a garden of loveli- ness. Here native forest oaks, interspersed with fra- grant bays and cedars, lend a peculiar beauty to the land- scape; while the river murmuring softly in the distance chants a requiem for the silent loved ones who here sleep in the cool shade of the trees. Opened in 1841, the cemetery was named in honor of Simri Rose, a public- spirited citizen of Macon. On passing through the hand- some gate which constitutes the main entrance to Rose Hill, the eye is attracted by a majestic shaft of granite, which towers to the right of the principal driveway. The inscription on the base of the monument reads:
WASHINGTON
It is the family lot of a distinguished former resident of Macon-HON. JAMES H. R. WASHINGTON. He was both a planter and a banker, and held at one time the office of mayor. Though opposed to secession, he devoted his princely fortune to the cause of the South, and was a tower of defence to Macon during the dark days of the Civil War. His famous old home, on the hill where, in ante-bellum days, he dispensed a lavish hospitality, is still one of the local landmarks. The inscription on the marble plate which covers his grave reads as follows :
JAMES H. R. WASHINGTON. Born in Wilkes Co., Ga., July 19, 1809. Died Macon, Ga., Nov. 21, 1866. Mayor of Milledgeville, 1844. Mayor of Macon, 1851. Banker, Planter, Legislator. He fulfilled every duty with courage and fidelity.
Beside him sleeps his beloved wife, the founder of the D. A. R. in Georgia and the first real daughter. She was also a charter member of the national organ-
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ization. The father of Mrs. Washington was Colonel Samuel Hammond, a distinguished officer of the Amer- ican Revolution, a former member of Congress, and the first territorial Governor of Upper Louisiana. Recently a handsome memorial bust of Mrs. Washington has been placed by the National Society in Continental Hall, in Washington, D. C. Inscribed on the marble plate which covers her grave is the following epitaph :
MARY A. HAMMOND WASHINGTON. Born St. Louis, Mo., May 12, 1816. Died Macon, Ga., Nov. 2, 1901. Founder of the Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution in Georgia. Her life was the ex- pression of herself, all that was noble and beautiful and true in womanhood.
"Faith that withstood the shocks of toil and time, Hope that defied despair, Patience that conquered care A loyalty whose courage was' sublime."
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Mrs. Washington died in her eighty-sixth year. Six children are buried on the family lot : SAMUEL HAMMOND, a lieutenant in Company F. of the Third Georgia Regi- ment of Infantry; LEROY HAMMOND, who resigned from the United States Navy in 1861 to serve the Confederate cause, becoming first an officer on board the "Jackson," at New Orleans, in 1862, afterwards a private in the Macon Light Artillery; ROBERT PORTER, MARY ELIZABETH, ANNIE TUFFT, and HUGH VERNON. The last named rep- resented Georgia as a special commissioner at both the Louisiana Purchase and the Jamestown Expositions. He also organized the Macon Athenaeum, and gave the ini- tial impetus to a number of important civic reforms.
Only a few feet distant towers a handsome monument to HENRY J. LAMAR, one of the wealthy merchants of Macon.
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Under a plain marble shaft, resting upon a granite base, in a lot some distance to the left of the main drive- way, repose the mortal ashes of ALFRED H. COLQUITT, one of the most distinguished Georgians of his day and time. Twice elected to the high office of Governor, he was also twice commissioned by the Legislature to a seat in the Senate of the United States. During the Civil War he attained the rank of Major-General in the Con- federate army; and, for a brilliant victory achieved over the Federals by a clever piece of strategy, at a time when his ammunition was almost exhausted, he was styled "the hero of Olustee"-a sobriquet which at- tached to him through life. He was also a minister of the Gospel. Inscribed on the monument is the following brief epitaph :
ALFRED HOLT COLQUITT. Born April 20, 1824. Died Mar. 26, 1894. The memory of the just is blessed.
Enough for one whose life is written in the annals of Georgia. The grave is covered by a flat stone, bor- dered with brick. In the center of the lot, which is handsomely enclosed by an iron railing, stands a beau- tiful magnolia. There are several other graves on the lot, only one of which, however, is marked. This is the grave of a little grandchild,. Alfred Colquitt Marshall.
Adjoining the Colquitt lot is the lot of GOVERNOR GEORGE W. TOWNS, likewise enclosed by an iron railing; but except for the name on the gate there is naught what- ever to suggest that here lies a Georgian upon whom many public honors were once lavished. Governor Towns represented the State in Congress for several terms, in addition to occupying the chair of State. His health began to fail soon after his retirement from the latter office; and he died in the full vigor of his intellec-
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tual powers. Georgia has named one of her counties in honor of this well-beloved son.
Two other distinguished citizens of Georgia who are neighbors in death to Governor Colquitt, both of them occupying graves at present unmarked, are JUDGE RICH- ARD H. CLARK and COLONEL THOMAS C. HOWARD. The former was one of the original codifiers of the Georgia statutes, a distinguished jurist, and a man of wonderful powers of memory, who possessed at his tongue's end the family antecedents of nearly every one in Georgia. The latter was one of the State's most brilliant editors, a man of sparkling wit, who was always the most zealous champion of Governor Colquitt. There was not an office in the gift of the people which he was not competent to fill, but he preferred to remain an humble subaltern in the ranks. His father, the noted Methodist divine, REV. JOHN HOWARD, whose monument is one of the old landmarks of the cemetery, was the foremost orator of his day in the Methodist pulpit, not even excepting the famous Dr. Lovick Pierce, who was one of his contempo- raries. WILLIAM SCHLEY HOWARD, the present member of Congress from the Fifth District, is a son of COLONEL THOMAS C. HOWARD.
Marked by a handsome granite monument, occupying the center of a lot bordered with stone, is the grave of JOHN BASIL LAMAR, a wealthy planter and a noted man of letters, who fell mortally wounded at the battle of Crampton's gap in Maryland, while serving on the staff of his brother-in-law, GENERAL HOWELL COBB. The in- scription on the west side of the monument is as follows:
JOHN BASIL LAMAR, son of Zachariah Lamar and his wife, Mary Ann Lamar. Born in Milledgeville, Ga., Nov. 5th., 1812. Died in Maryland, Sept. 15th., 1862.
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On the south side the inscription reads :
Colonel Lamar, while serving in the army of the Confederate States, was mortally wounded at the battle of Crampton's Gap, Maryland, Sunday, Sept. 14th, 1862, and died the following day.
As a writer of short stories, Colonel Lamar has won an established place in the literature of the South. One of his most famous productions, "The Blacksmith of the Mountain Pass," fell under the eye of the great Dickens, who borrowed the central idea for one of his own novels. Colonel Lamar declined a nomination to Congress, pre- ferring the life of a planter to a seat in the national councils. He never married.
In the immediate neighborhood of the Lamar lot stands a weather-beaten cenotaph, the inscription on which recalls one of the saddest catastrophes in the his- tory of the State. It reads thus :
OLIVER HILLHOUSE PRINCE and MARY R. PRINCE, who perished in the wreck of the steamship "Home," Monday, Oct. 9, 1837. "They were lovely and pleasant in their lives and in their death they were not divided. "
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Further down on the slab appears the following record :
This tablet is erected to perpetuate the beloved mem- ory of our parents' by their bereaved and sorrowing children.
MR. PRINCE represented Georgia in the Senate of the United States. At the time of his death, he was en route to New York for the purpose of bringing out a second edition of his celebrated digest. "The Militia Drill," in Longstreet's "Georgia Scenes," is credited to the pen
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of Mr. Prince. He possessed a keen sense of humor, associated with rare literary gifts.
On a high bluff, immediately overlooking the river, stands one of the handsomest marble piles in Rose Hill. It marks the last resting place of a wealthy planter who met his death while in the act of defending one of his slaves, who had been struck by the overseer of an ad- jacent plantation. His estate, on the eve of the Civil War, was appraised at something over $1,000,000. There is nothing on the monument to record this story of sacri- fice, but it deserves to be embalmed in the memory of Georgians. The brief inscription on the tomb reads :
JOSEPH BOND. Born Jan. 11, 1815. Died Mar. 21, 1859.
At the time of Mr. Bond's death, the only man in Macon who possessed the means to purchase his palatial house on the hill was JEREMIAH COWLES, the famous rail- way pioneer, who bought and completed the old Monroe Road, at a time when the enterprise was threatened with collapse. It now forms part of the Central of Georgia between Macon and Atlanta. Subsequently encountering financial reverses, Mr. Cowles lost his fortune; and his grave in Rose Hill is today unmarked.
While lingering in this part of the cemetery there is a monument which must not be overlooked. It marks the grave of a noted physician and duelist, who was for years prominent in the public life of the State-DR. AM- BROSE BABER. He came to his death at the bedside of a patient, while taking a dose of medicine to show the sick man that the liquid was harmless. It seems that
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the mistake was caused by a misprint in the formula of a certain compound, the use of which had been most effective; and the drug clerk, detecting the error, had attached a note to the bottle, warning the invalid not to take it, on account of the deadly nature of the contents. When Dr. Baber called on his patient the next day, he was provoked to find that he had not taken the medicine, and he swallowed a part of it himself as an object lesson to his patient; but in less than twenty minutes he was dead. The monument is planted upon a mound of ivy. Inscribed thereon is the following epitaph :
AMBROSE BABER. Born in Buckingham Co., Va., Sept. 12, 1792. Died in Macon, Ga., Mar. 8, 1846. But though the righteous be prevented by death yet shall he be at rest. For honorable age is not that which stand- eth in length of time nor is marked by length of days. But wisdom is the gray hair unto men and an unspotted life is old age. Erected by Macon Lodge, No. 6, and Constantine Chapter, No. 4, to their deceased brother and companion, who was for many years their presiding officer, also past Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Georgia.
CHIEF JUSTICE JAMES JACKSON, of the Supreme Court of Georgia, a former member of Congress, and a grand- son of the illustrious GOVERNOR JAMES JACKSON, is num- bered among the honored dead at Rose Hill. So likewise is CHIEF JUSTICE THOMAS J. SIMMONS.
Near the foot of a slope overlooking the river rest the mortal ashes of the noted jurist who framed Georgia's ordinance of secession. When the Supreme Court of the State was organized in 1845, he was one of the celebrated trio of judges chosen to preside upon this august bench. Subsequently he also represented Georgia in Congress.
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Judge Nisbet was one of the State's most polished ora- tors and one of her purest men. The inscription on the handsome monument is as follows:
EUGENIUS A. NISBET. Born Dec. 7, 1803. Died Mar. 18, 1871.
In adjoining lots repose his distinguished brother, JAMES A. NISBET, and his honored son, JAMES T. NISBET, both lawyers of note, who frequently served the public in high official positions.
On a green slope, not far removed from the Bond monument, sleeps a distinguished Georgian, HON. HENRY G. LAMAR, who ably served his State on the Bench, in Congress, and on important missions to the Cherokee and Creek Indians. In 1857, he was a strong minority candidate for the Gubernatorial nomination. His wife sleeps beside him; and on the handsome shaft of metal is lettered the following inscription :
To the memory of our father and mother. HENRY G. LAMAR. Born, July 10, 1798. Died, Sept. 10, 1861. MARY ANN LAMAR. Born, August 16, 1807. Died, May 3, 1882.
Next to the Lamar lot, in a new-made grave, sleeps UNITED STATES SENATOR AUGUSTUS O. BACON, a son-in- law of Judge Lamar. Senator Bacon was serving his fourth term in the upper house of Congress when death removed him from the councils of the nation. As a par- liamentarian, he was unsurpassed. At the time of his death he was chairman of the Committee on Foreign Re- lations and one of the most trusted advisers of President Wilson. The first wife of Chief Justice O. A. Lochrane is buried on this same lot. She was a daughter of Judge Lamar.
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