Tag Archives: {South Georgia Memorials}
World War I Bronze Star Headstone, New Hope Cemetery
In Honor of Private Alfred R. Griffin – 35th Company, 157th Depot Brigade Died in Service Camp Gordan (sp.), Ga. May 15, 1894 – Sept. 27, 1918 Camp Gordon is misspelled on this one. Also, I don’t know whether Private … Continue reading
Filed under --BRANTLEY COUNTY GA--, Hickox GA
Site of George Washington Pump & Oak, St. Marys
Text of historic marker: There were originally six wells one in each square, the only source of pure water for St. Marys, (until the tidal wave of 1818). On the day that the Father of the Country was buried at … Continue reading
Filed under --CAMDEN COUNTY GA--, St. Marys GA
Memorial, Half Moon Lake
Inscription: Lake, Land, and Buildings Dedicated to the Memory of Joel Davis, Lizzie Davis Howell and William Edward Howell By Their Children, Grandchildren and Great-Grandchildren
Filed under --APPLING COUNTY GA--
Iron Cross of Private Henry T. Rogers
Pleasant Grove Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, Moultrie 1 January 1842 – 22 September 1903 Company A, 11th Battallion, Georgia Artillery “Sumter Flying Artillery”
Filed under --COLQUITT COUNTY GA--, Moultrie GA
Johnny Mercer Memorial
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 … Continue reading
Filed under --CHATHAM COUNTY GA--, Savannah GA
Johnny Mercer Memorial
Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah This is Mercer’s self-portrait caricature and autograph, from the bench at his gravesite.
Filed under --CHATHAM COUNTY GA--, Savannah GA
Brantley-Haynes Memorial, Gray’s Landing
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.
Filed under --TOOMBS COUNTY GA--
Train Disaster Memorial, Meldrim
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 … Continue reading
Filed under --EFFINGHAM COUNTY GA--, Meldrim GA
Volunteers’ Memorial, Fort Gaines
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 … Continue reading
Filed under --CLAY COUNTY GA--, Fort Gaines GA
Highlanders Monument, 1936, Darien
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 … Continue reading
Filed under --MCINTOSH COUNTY GA--, Darien GA
