Archive for January, 2011

Cemetery of Christ Church, Frederica

Posted in --GLYNN COUNTY GA--, St. Simons Island GA with tags , , , , , , on January 30, 2011 by Brian Brown

Oak and Acorn Garland, Christ Church

Posted in --GLYNN COUNTY GA--, St. Simons Island GA with tags , , , , , , on January 30, 2011 by Brian Brown

Cemetery of Christ Church, Frederica

Headstone of John Couper

Captain Hamilton Couper, Confederate Hero

Posted in --GLYNN COUNTY GA--, St. Simons Island GA with tags , , , , , , on January 30, 2011 by Brian Brown

Cemetery of Christ Church, Frederica

Born 11 January 1829 at Hopeton, Glynn County

Died 8 November 1861 at Manassas, Virginia

TEXT:

Literary by taste and culture, he became a soldier from sense of duty, and at his decease was Captain of the Oglethorpe Light Infantry Co, 8th Ga. Reg’t., having proved a worthy leader of the band that went to illustrate the State of Georgia.

James Hamilton Couper, Georgia Pioneer

Posted in --GLYNN COUNTY GA--, St. Simons Island GA with tags , , , , , on January 30, 2011 by Brian Brown

Cemetery of Christ Church, Frederica

4 March 1794 – 3 June 1866

Tabby Crypt, Christ Church, Frederica

Posted in --GLYNN COUNTY GA--, St. Simons Island GA with tags , , , , , , , , , on January 30, 2011 by Brian Brown

A bronze tablet leading into the crypt reads: Hazzard, AD 1813.

Lewellin & Ann Harris, Georgia Pioneers

Posted in --GLYNN COUNTY GA--, St. Simons Island GA with tags , , , , , , , on January 30, 2011 by Brian Brown

Cemetery of Christ Church, Frederica

Lewellin Harris (1742? – 15 December 1808)

Ann Harris (1759? – 17 April 1815)

TEXT:

This stone is erected by Henry Allen & John Benjamin Harris, to the memory of their Father, Lewellin Harris, an Old & respectable Inhabitant of St. Simons Island, who departed this transitory life on said Island Dec. 15, 1808, Aged 66.  Also Their Mother Ann Harris, wife of Lewellin Harris, who departed this life on the same Island, April 17, 1815, Aged 56.

Sarah Frewin, Georgia Pioneer

Posted in --GLYNN COUNTY GA--, St. Simons Island GA with tags , , , , , , on January 30, 2011 by Brian Brown

Cemetery of Christ Church, Frederica

1811? – 25 October 1824

Cyrus Dart, Revolutionary War Veteran

Posted in --GLYNN COUNTY GA--, St. Simons Island GA with tags , , , , , , , , on January 30, 2011 by Brian Brown

Cemetery of Christ Church, Frederica

Private, Connecticut Continental Line

11 June 1764 – 29 June 1817

Drowned Off St. Simons Island

Major William Page, Revolutionary War Veteran

Posted in --GLYNN COUNTY GA--, St. Simons Island GA with tags , , , , , , , on January 30, 2011 by Brian Brown

Cemetery of Christ Church, Frederica

2 January 1764 – 12 January 1827

Glynn Academy, 1840

Posted in --GLYNN COUNTY GA--, Brunswick GA with tags , , , , , , , on January 29, 2011 by Brian Brown

This is the oldest wooden schoolhouse in Georgia. Glynn Academy, which was chartered in 1788 is one of the oldest public high schools in Georgia (along with Richmond Academy in Augusta, which received its charter in 1783) and the fifth oldest in the nation. This structure, which dates to 1840,  was moved to Sterling in 1915, where it was used as a school for African-Americans until desegregation. It was returned to this location in 2008 and is now used as an interpretive museum.

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