Memory Hill Cemetery is an American cemetery in Milledgeville,

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. The cemetery opened in 1804.

Notable interments

* Thomas Petters Carnes (1762–1822),

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for Georgia and state court judge. * George Pierce Doles (1830–1864),

businessman and

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general during the

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. * Tomlinson Fort (1787–1859), United States Representative for Georgia * Tomlinson Fort (1839–1910), mayor of Chattanooga, Tennessee *

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(1782–1864), United States Representative for Georgia * Dixie Haygood (1861–1915),

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star * Charles Holmes Herty (1867–1938), American academic, scientist, and businessman *

Edwin Francis Jemison Edwin Francis Jemison (December 1, 1844 – July 1, 1862) was a Confederate soldier who served in Company C, 2nd Louisiana Infantry, from May 1861 until he was killed at the Battle of Malvern Hill. Jemison's photograph has become one of the mo ...

(1844–1862), Confederate Civil War soldier whose haunting photograph is one of the most reproduced images from this conflict *

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(1805–1870), member of the

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, and

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* John Marlor, master builder and originator of the "Milledgeville Federal" style in Milledgeville, Georgia * Ezra Allen "Bill" Miner (1847–1913), noted

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criminal *

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(1766–1837), Governor of Georgia * Susan Myrick (1893–1978), American author and newspaper columnist, known as "The Emily Post of the South" *

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(1925–1964), American author * James Milton Richardson (1913–1980), fifth bishop of the

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* John W. A. Sanford (1798–1870), United States Representative for Georgia *

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(1883–1981), United States Representative for Georgia * John W. Wilcox, Jr. (1882–1942),

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rear admiral (memorial marker only; Wilcox was lost at sea and his body was not recovered)

External links

Memory Hill Cemetery websiteFind A Grave listing for Memory Hill Cemetery
*Hill, Sean
"The Morning with Many Tongues."
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