Interesting Individuals, Tombstones, & Gravesites

Since there are too many to list all on the home page, here is a more complete compilation of all the individuals, tombstones, and gravesites that struck me as interesting, and that I chose to highlight on the Southern Graves site. As always, you may find more articles of interest at my various blogs:

Rose Hill Cemetery; Macon, Georgia

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- A Bank Failure Results in a Man Charged with Murder. Sound Familiar? (Tombstone Tuesday)

- A Remarkable Funeral: Burial of the Victims of the Woolfolk Tragedy

- And the Road Goes on Forever: Duane Allman & Berry Oakley

- Daniel Ryder, U.S. Colored Infantry

- F. F. Juhan Called to Beyond: Well-Known Jurist Passes After Long and Active Life

- First Mayor of Warner Robins, Georgia

- Frances Wicks Memorial: Jesus on the Cross

- Dr. Fred A. Moss & the Fairview Memorial Garden

- From the Life of General Thomas Pinckney

- George A. Wagener, Grocery Wholesaler & Phosphate Industrialist

- George Kratzer, Baker & Confectioner

- Here Rests the Body of Col. William Rhett

- Ilah Dunlap: the Queenliest of Macon's Young Women

- It's Time for You to Get Low

- James Willingham Fell Victim to His Own Benevolence

- John Buckley & the Congressional Medal of Honor

- John Victau Dowis: A Tale of Murder & Revenge

- John Waterman: Georgia Journalist, Sweet Potato Enthusiast, & Strong Prohibitionist

- "Little Mary Marsh" of the Marsh Juvenile Comedians Troupe

- Lothrop Withington, Noted Genealogist Lost at Sea

- Louis Behrens, Famous Fireman

- Members of Kennon Family Killed By a Storm in 1875

- My Journey to Visit the Brother that Did Not Survive

- North Carolina's Greatest Man: Zebulon Baird Vance

- O. Henry - Author, Cowboy, Druggist, Sheep Herder, & Convicted Embezzler

- Remembering the Lewis Boys

- Robert J. Anderson, Confederate Soldier at Gettysburg

- To the Asylum Goes the Murderess Julia Force

- William Zeigler: the Man, His Vault, & His Woman Slave Mary


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