Rose Hill Cemetery (Georgia)
- Rose Hill Cemetery (Georgia)
Rose Hill Cemetery is in Macon, Georgia, U.S. The cemetery opened in 1840.
Notable interments
*Howard Duane Allman
*Clifford Anderson
*Augustus Octavius Bacon
*Charles Lafayette Bartlett
*James Henderson Blount
*Peter Bracken
*Alfred Holt Colquitt
*Philip Cook
*Harry Stillwell Edwards
*Martha Ellis - (12 year old) namesake of Allman Brothers guitar solo "Little Martha" This song has nothing to do with the statue or the girl Martha Ellis. "Little Martha" was written in reference to Duane's girl friend "Dixie"
*Eugenia Tucker Fitzgerald, founder of Alpha Delta Pi Sorority
*Samuel Francis Gove
*Nathaniel Edwin Harris
*James Jackson - United States Representative from Georgia, a judge advocate in the American Civil War, and a chief justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.
*Henry Graybill Lamar
*John Basil Lamar
*Eugenius Aristides Nisbet
*Raymond Berry Oakley III
*Elizabeth Napier Reed - namesake of Allman Brothers song "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed"The grave just happened to be in the spot where Dickey Betts and his mistress were meeting to have an affair. She was also Boz Scaggs woman at the time. Dickey couldn't name the song after her and expose the affair so he named the song after the grave they would meet at.
*J. Neel Reed
*George Washington Bonaparte Towns
*Edward Dorr Tracy
*Phillip Michael Walden, Sr.
Trivia
The cemetery was a hangout for the Allman Brothers Band during their early years. Several songs share their namesake with some the interred. Legendary slide guitarist from the Allman Brothers Duane Allman and bassist Berry Oakley are also interred here, side by side.
References
* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&GRid=6722879&CRid=36699& Find A Grave listing for Rose Hill Cemetery]
* [http://rosehillcemetery.org/about.asp Official History of Rose Hill Cemetery]
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