Memory Hill Cemetery
{{Short description|Cemetery in Baldwin County, Georgia, US}}
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Memory Hill Cemetery is an American cemetery in Milledgeville, Georgia. The cemetery opened in 1804.
Notable interments
- Thomas Petters Carnes (1762–1822), United States Representative for Georgia and state court judge.
- George Pierce Doles (1830–1864), Georgia businessman and Confederate general during the American Civil War.
- Tomlinson Fort (1787–1859), United States Representative for Georgia
- Tomlinson Fort (1839–1910), mayor of Chattanooga, Tennessee
- Seaton Grantland (1782–1864), United States Representative for Georgia
- Dixie Haygood (1861–1915), illusionist and vaudeville star
- Charles Holmes Herty (1867–1938), American academic, scientist, and businessman
- Edwin Francis Jemison (1844–1862), Confederate Civil War soldier whose haunting photograph is one of the most reproduced images from this conflict
- Augustus Holmes Kenan (1805–1870), member of the Georgia House of Representatives, Georgia Senate, Provisional Confederate Congress, and First Confederate Congress
- John Marlor, master builder and originator of the "Milledgeville Federal" style in Milledgeville, Georgia
- Ezra Allen "Bill" Miner (1847–1913), noted American criminal
- David Brydie Mitchell (1766–1837), Governor of Georgia
- Susan Myrick (1893–1978), American author and newspaper columnist, known as "The Emily Post of the South"
- Flannery O'Connor (1925–1964), American author
- James Milton Richardson (1913–1980), fifth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas
- John W. A. Sanford (1798–1870), United States Representative for Georgia
- Carl Vinson (1883–1981), United States Representative for Georgia
- John W. Wilcox, Jr. (1882–1942), United States Navy rear admiral (memorial marker only; Wilcox was lost at sea and his body was not recovered)
External links
- [http://www.friendsofcems.org/memoryhill/ Memory Hill Cemetery website]
- [https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/35328/famous-memorials Find A Grave listing for Memory Hill Cemetery]
- Hill, Sean. [http://southernspaces.org/2009/morning-many-tongues "The Morning with Many Tongues."] Southern Spaces, February 27, 2009
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Category:Protected areas of Baldwin County, Georgia
Category:Baldwin County, Georgia