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Emory Speer (1848-1918) —
of Georgia.
Born in Culloden, Monroe
County, Ga., September
3, 1848.
Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 9th District, 1879-83; U.S.
Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, 1883-85; U.S.
District Judge for the Southern District of Georgia, 1885-1918.
Died in Macon, Bibb
County, Ga., December
13, 1918 (age 70 years, 101
days).
Interment at Riverside Cemetery.
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William Augustus Bootle (1902-2005) —
also known as William A. Bootle —
of Macon, Bibb
County, Ga.
Born in Walterboro, Colleton
County, S.C., August
19, 1902.
Son of Philip Loraine Bootle and Laura Lilla (Benton) Bootle.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, 1929-33; U.S.
District Judge for the Middle District of Georgia, 1954-72; took
senior status 1972.
Baptist.
Member, Phi
Delta Theta; Freemasons;
Civitan.
Died January
25, 2005 (age 102 years,
159 days).
Interment at Riverside Cemetery.
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Chauncey Vibbard (1811-1891) —
of New York.
Born in New York, 1811.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from New York 18th District, 1861-63.
Died in 1891
(age about
80 years).
Interment at Riverside Cemetery.
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Ed Gochenour (c.1953-1999) —
of Macon, Bibb
County, Ga.
Born about 1953.
Member of Georgia
state senate.
Died, of cancer, in
a hospital
at Macon, Bibb
County, Ga., November
7, 1999 (age about 46
years).
Interment at Riverside Cemetery.
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Denmark Groover, Jr. (1922-2001) —
of Macon, Bibb
County, Ga.
Born in Quitman, Brooks
County, Ga., June 30,
1922.
Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; lawyer;
member of Georgia
state house of representatives from Bibb County, 1953-57,
1963-65, 1971-75, 1983-95.
Methodist.
Member, Phi
Delta Theta; Association
of Trial Lawyers of America.
During World War II, served as a pilot in the "Black Sheep Squadron";
an injury left his right arm partially
paralyzed. Sponsored the bill to put the Confederate battle flag
on the Georgia state flag in 1956; supported the removal of the
emblem in 2001.
Died in Macon, Bibb
County, Ga., April 18,
2001 (age 78 years, 292
days).
Interment at Riverside Cemetery.
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Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (1825-1893) —
also known as Lucius Q. C. Lamar —
of Covington, Newton
County, Ga.; Abbeville, Lafayette
County, Miss.; Oxford, Lafayette
County, Miss.
Born near Eatonton, Putnam
County, Ga., September
17, 1825.
Son of Lucius
Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (1797-1834).
Democrat. Lawyer; president,
University of Mississippi, 1849-52; member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1853; U.S.
Representative from Mississippi 1st District, 1857-60, 1873-77;
colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; delegate to
Mississippi state constitutional convention, 1865, 1868, 1875,
1877, 1881; U.S.
Senator from Mississippi, 1877-85; U.S.
Secretary of the Interior, 1885-88; Justice
of U.S. Supreme Court, 1888-93; died in office 1893.
Methodist.
Member, Sigma
Alpha Epsilon.
Died in Macon, Bibb
County, Ga., January
23, 1893 (age 67 years, 128
days).
Original interment at Riverside Cemetery; reinterment in 1894 at St.
Peter's Cemetery, Oxford, Miss.
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Alfred Holt Colquitt (1824-1894) —
also known as Alfred H. Colquitt —
of Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.
Born in Monroe, Walton
County, Ga., April 20,
1824.
Son of Walter
Terry Colquitt.
Democrat. Lawyer; planter; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 2nd District, 1853-55; member of
Georgia state legislature, 1859; delegate
to Georgia secession convention, 1861; general in the Confederate
Army during the Civil War; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Georgia, 1868;
received 5 electoral votes for Vice-President, 1872;
Governor
of Georgia, 1877-82; U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1883-94; died in office 1894.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March 26,
1894 (age 69 years, 340
days).
Interment at Rose Hill Cemetery.
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Augustus Octavius Bacon (1839-1914) —
also known as Augustus O. Bacon —
of Macon, Bibb
County, Ga.
Born in Bryan
County, Ga., October
20, 1839.
Son of Rev. Augustus Octavius Bacon and Mary Louisa (Jones) Bacon.
Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Georgia, 1868;
member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1871-83, 1892-93; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Georgia, 1884;
U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1895-1914; died in office 1914.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
14, 1914 (age 74 years, 117
days).
Interment at Rose Hill Cemetery.
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James Jackson (1819-1887) —
of Athens, Clarke
County, Ga.; Macon, Bibb
County, Ga.; Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.
Born in Jefferson
County, Ga., October
18, 1819.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1845-49; superior court judge in
Georgia, 1846-59; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 6th District, 1857-61; served in the
Confederate Army during the Civil War; justice of
Georgia state supreme court, 1875-80; chief
justice of Georgia Supreme Court, 1880-87; died in office 1887.
Died in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., January
13, 1887 (age 67 years, 87
days).
Interment at Rose Hill Cemetery.
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George Washington Bonaparte Towns (1801-1854) —
also known as George W. B. Towns —
of Talbotton, Talbot
County, Ga.
Born in Georgia, May 4,
1801.
Member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1829; member of Georgia
state senate, 1832; U.S.
Representative from Georgia, 1835-36, 1837-39, 1846-47 (at-large
1835-36, 1837-39, 3rd District 1846-47); Governor of
Georgia, 1847-51.
Died July 15,
1854 (age 53 years, 72
days).
Interment at Rose Hill Cemetery.
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North Winship (1885-1968) —
of Macon, Bibb
County, Ga.
Born in Macon, Bibb
County, Ga., December
31, 1885.
Son of Nathaniel R. Winship and Mary A. (North) Winship.
Lawyer;
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Consul in Tahiti, 1910; Owen Sound, 1913-14; Petrograd, 1914-17; Milan, 1917-21; Bombay, 1921-22; Fiume, 1923-24; Cairo, 1924-27; U.S. Consul General in Copenhagen, 1928-31; Toronto, 1943; Montreal, 1945-47; U.S. Minister to South Africa, 1948-49; U.S. Ambassador to South Africa, 1949.
Episcopalian.
Died in 1968
(age about
82 years).
Interment at Rose Hill Cemetery.
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Relatives:
Married 1921
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James Henderson Blount (1837-1903) —
also known as James H. Blount —
of Macon, Bibb
County, Ga.
Born near Clinton, Jones
County, Ga., September
12, 1837.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Georgia 6th District, 1873-93; U.S. Minister
to Hawaiian Islands, 1893.
Died in Macon, Bibb
County, Ga., March 8,
1903 (age 65 years, 177
days).
Interment at Rose Hill Cemetery.
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Nathaniel Edwin Harris (1846-1929) —
of Macon, Bibb
County, Ga.; Hampton, Carter
County, Tenn.
Born in Jonesborough, Washington
County, Tenn., January
21, 1846.
Son of Alexander Nelson Harris and Edna (Haynes) Harris.
Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1882-86; member of Georgia
state senate, 1894-96; superior court judge in Georgia, 1912; Governor of
Georgia, 1915-17.
Methodist.
Member, Chi Phi;
Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
United
Confederate Veterans.
Died September
21, 1929 (age 83 years, 243
days).
Interment at Rose Hill Cemetery.
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Eugenius Aristides Nisbet (1803-1871) —
also known as E. A. Nisbet —
of Georgia.
Born in Greene
County, Ga., December
7, 1803.
Member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1827-30; member of Georgia
state senate, 1830-37; U.S.
Representative from Georgia at-large, 1839-41; justice of
Georgia state supreme court, 1845-53; delegate
to Georgia secession convention, 1861; Delegate
from Georgia to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861.
Died in Macon, Bibb
County, Ga., March 18,
1871 (age 67 years, 101
days).
Interment at Rose Hill Cemetery.
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Clifford Anderson (1833-1899) —
of Georgia.
Born in Nottoway
County, Va., March 23,
1833.
State court judge in Georgia, 1856-58; member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1859; served in the Confederate
Army during the Civil War; Representative
from Georgia in the Confederate Congress, 1864-65; Georgia
state attorney general, 1880-90.
Died in Macon, Bibb
County, Ga., December
19, 1899 (age 66 years, 271
days).
Interment at Rose Hill Cemetery.
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Charles Lafayette Bartlett (1853-1938) —
also known as Charles L. Bartlett —
of Macon, Bibb
County, Ga.
Born in Monticello, Jasper
County, Ga., January
31, 1853.
Son of George T. Bartlett and Virginia L. (Saunders) Bartlett.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1882-86; member of Georgia
state senate, 1888-90; superior court judge in Georgia, 1893-94;
U.S.
Representative from Georgia 6th District, 1895-1915; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Georgia, 1916
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee).
Died in Macon, Bibb
County, Ga., April 21,
1938 (age 85 years, 80
days).
Interment at Rose Hill Cemetery.
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Thomas Hardeman, Jr. (1825-1891) —
of Macon, Bibb
County, Ga.
Born in Eatonton, Putnam
County, Ga., January
12, 1825.
Democrat. Member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1853-57, 1863-64, 1874; U.S.
Representative from Georgia, 1859-61, 1883-85 (3rd District
1859-61, at-large 1883-85); colonel in the Confederate Army during
the Civil War.
Died in Macon, Bibb
County, Ga., March 6,
1891 (age 66 years, 53
days).
Interment at Rose Hill Cemetery.
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Philip Cook (1817-1894) —
of Americus, Sumter
County, Ga.
Born in Twiggs
County, Ga., July 31,
1817.
Democrat. Member of Georgia
state senate; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil
War; delegate to
Georgia state constitutional convention, 1865; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 3rd District, 1873-83; secretary of
state of Georgia, 1890-94; died in office 1894.
Died in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., May 21,
1894 (age 76 years, 294
days).
Interment at Rose Hill Cemetery.
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Henry Graybill Lamar (1798-1861) —
also known as Henry G. Lamar —
of Macon, Bibb
County, Ga.
Born in Clinton, Jones
County, Ga., July 10,
1798.
Democrat. Member of Georgia
state house of representatives; U.S.
Representative from Georgia at-large, 1829-33.
Died in Macon, Bibb
County, Ga., September
10, 1861 (age 63 years, 62
days).
Interment at Rose Hill Cemetery.
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John Basil Lamar (1812-1862) —
of Georgia.
Born in Milledgeville, Baldwin
County, Ga., November
5, 1812.
Democrat. Member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1837; U.S.
Representative from Georgia at-large, 1843; served in the
Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Mortally
wounded in the battle at Cramptons Gap, Frederick County (part
now in Washington
County), Md., and died the following day, September
15, 1862 (age 49 years, 314
days).
Interment at Rose Hill Cemetery.
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Harry Stillwell Edwards (1855-1938) —
also known as Harry S. Edwards —
of Macon, Bibb
County, Ga.
Born in Macon, Bibb
County, Ga., April 23,
1855.
Son of James Corson Edwards (1802-1861) and Elizabeth Griffin (Hunt)
Edwards (1820-1904).
Newspaper
editor; author; postmaster;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Georgia, 1904;
Proleague Independent candidate for U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1920.
Died in Macon, Bibb
County, Ga., October
22, 1938 (age 83 years, 182
days).
Interment at Rose Hill Cemetery.
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Samuel Francis Gove (1822-1900) —
of Georgia.
Born in Weymouth, Norfolk
County, Mass., March 9,
1822.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Georgia 4th District, 1868-69.
Baptist.
Ordained as a minister in 1877 and was a traveling missionary for
much of the rest of his life.
Died in St. Augustine, St. Johns
County, Fla., December
3, 1900 (age 78 years, 269
days).
Interment at Rose Hill Cemetery.
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