Pleasant Grove Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, Moultrie
1 January 1842 – 22 September 1903
Company A, 11th Battallion, Georgia Artillery
“Sumter Flying Artillery”
Archive for {South Georgia Memorials}
Iron Cross of Private Henry T. Rogers
Posted in --COLQUITT COUNTY GA--, Moultrie GA with tags --COLQUITT COUNTY GA--, Copyright Brian Brown, Moultrie GA, {South Georgia Cemeteries}, {South Georgia Memorials}, {The Civil War in South Georgia} on February 4, 2012 by Brian BrownJohnny Mercer Memorial
Posted in --CHATHAM COUNTY GA--, Savannah GA with tags --CHATHAM COUNTY GA--, Copyright Brian Brown, Savannah GA, {Coastal Georgia}, {National Register of Historic Places}, {South Georgia Cemeteries}, {South Georgia Landmarks}, {South Georgia Memorials}, {South Georgia Musicians} on January 26, 2012 by Brian Brown
Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah
John Herndon Mercer
18 November 1909 – 25 June 1976
This bench, located near Mercer’s gravestone, is embellished with his self-portrait caricature and autograph, as well as other identifiers:
“Co-Founder of Capitol Records” – “Winner of 4 Academy Awards”
“Buddy, I’m a Kind of Poet and I Gotta Lotta Things to Say.”
“Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive” – “Autumn Leaves” – “Blues in the Night” – “Charade” – “Jeepers Creepers” -
“Laura” – “Moon River” – “My Shining Hour” – “On the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe”
Johnny Mercer Memorial
Posted in --CHATHAM COUNTY GA--, Savannah GA with tags --CHATHAM COUNTY GA--, Copyright Brian Brown, Savannah GA, {Coastal Georgia}, {National Register of Historic Places}, {South Georgia Cemeteries}, {South Georgia Landmarks}, {South Georgia Memorials}, {South Georgia Musicians} on January 26, 2012 by Brian Brown
Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah
This is Mercer’s self-portrait caricature and autograph, from the bench at his gravesite.
Brantley-Haynes Memorial, Gray’s Landing
Posted in --TOOMBS COUNTY GA-- with tags --TOOMBS COUNTY GA--, Copyright Brian Brown, {Altamaha River}, {South Georgia Memorials}, {South Georgia Rivers Creeks & Lakes} on December 17, 2011 by Brian Brown
This monument was placed memory of Bennie, Gladys, Faye & Samuel Brantley, and Franklin Haynes, who lost their lives in a boating accident at Gray’s Landing on 12 July 1956.
Train Disaster Memorial, Meldrim
Posted in --EFFINGHAM COUNTY GA--, Meldrim GA with tags --EFFINGHAM COUNTY GA--, Copyright Brian Brown, Meldrim GA, {South Georgia Depots & Railroadiana}, {South Georgia Disasters}, {South Georgia Memorials} on October 7, 2011 by Brian Brown
This plaque was placed in memory of the victims of the 28 June 1958 Seaboard Air Line railroad disaster on the Ogeechee River trestle near Meldrim. A fuel car derailed into the river and the ensuing explosion took the lives of many who had gathered on a nearby sandbar. Those who perished were: Jimmy Anderson, Elizabeth Dixon Barnes, Ted Barnes, Julian Beasley, Linda Jean Beasley, Reba Lamb Beasley, Michael Bland, Charles Carpenter, Billy Dent, Joan Dent, Edna Dixon, Frank Dixon, Barbara Hales, Claudia Johnson, L. B. Lamb, Terry Lane, Elbie Lane, Florence Lane, Leslie Lee, James Smith, Margie Hales Smith, Timothy Smith, Wayne Smith.
http://savannahnow.com/effingham/2009-06-28/meldrims-saddest-day#.To5VReyGmuI
Thanks to John Degnan for pointing out the correct railroad name.
Volunteers’ Memorial, Fort Gaines
Posted in --CLAY COUNTY GA--, Fort Gaines GA with tags --CLAY COUNTY GA--, Copyright Brian Brown, Fort Gaines GA, {South Georgia Curiosities}, {South Georgia Memorials} on August 25, 2011 by Brian Brown
Placed by the Fort Gaines Historical Society in 2010, the plaque on this boulder bears the inscription:
A Tribute to the Unpaid Volunteers of the Small Villages of Small Town Georgia Who Offer Their Time, Money and Energy For the Betterment of Their Part of Heaven Called Home – In Memory of Volunteer Fire Chief George M. Coleman by Progeny Geo. M. Coleman, Coleman’s Opera House
Highlanders Monument, 1936, Darien
Posted in --MCINTOSH COUNTY GA--, Darien GA with tags --MCINTOSH COUNTY GA--, Copyright Brian Brown, Darien GA, {Coastal Georgia}, {Colonial South Georgia}, {South Georgia Memorials}, {South Georgia Monuments}, {South Georgia Sculpture} on July 24, 2011 by Brian Brown
Erected by the Georgia Society of Colonial Dames of America and the St. Andrews Society of Savannah in 1936 on the occasion of Darien’s bicentennial, this pink marble monument on US Highway 17 is one of the most beautiful in Georgia.
Inscription:
To the Highlanders of Scotland who Founded New Inverness in 1736 A. D. — Their Valor Defended the Struggling Colony from the Spanish Invasion — Their Ideals Tradition and Culture Enriched the Land of their Adoption
The sculpture on the monument (detailed in the next two posts) is entitled Pipes of War and was the work of the Canadian artist R. Tait McKenzie. It duplicates a section of his larger sculpture, The Call, on the 1927 Scots-American War Memorial in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Highlanders Monument (Detail), 1936, Darien
Posted in --MCINTOSH COUNTY GA--, Darien GA with tags --MCINTOSH COUNTY GA--, Copyright Brian Brown, Darien GA, {Coastal Georgia}, {Colonial South Georgia}, {South Georgia Memorials}, {South Georgia Monuments}, {South Georgia Sculpture} on July 24, 2011 by Brian Brown
Highlanders Monument (Detail), 1936, Darien
Posted in --MCINTOSH COUNTY GA--, Darien GA with tags --MCINTOSH COUNTY GA--, Copyright Brian Brown, Darien GA, {Colonial South Georgia}, {South Georgia Memorials}, {South Georgia Monuments}, {South Georgia Sculpture} on July 24, 2011 by Brian Brown
Oglethorpe’s Oak, Darien
Posted in --MCINTOSH COUNTY GA--, Darien GA with tags --MCINTOSH COUNTY GA--, Copyright Brian Brown, Darien GA, {Coastal Georgia}, {Colonial South Georgia}, {South Georgia Curiosities}, {South Georgia Memorials} on July 24, 2011 by Brian Brown
Though the tree was lost in the 1960s, a marble tablet placed here in 1895 notes superlatives about this site of General James Oglethorpe’s 1736 Darien encampment.
The Oak Under Which General Oglethorpe Camped
Height 75 feet
Circumference 260 feet
Trunk 15 feet 5 in.
Average Length of Limbs 50 ft
Covers 7,600 feet
Will Shelter 5,065 men
Age Unknown
Measured in 1895
Here is an image of the oak, from a circa 1910 postcard:
