Rose Hill Cemetery at Macon, Georgia
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Rose Hill Cemetery is located in Macon, Bibb County, Georgia. An example of a 19th-century rural cemetery park, it was established in 1840 by Simri Rose. It's on the National Register of Historic Places and is where the Allman Brothers are buried. It's also the final resting place of the 9 victims of the infamous Woolfolk Tragedy.

This is a One-Place-Study geneablog about the tombstones and silent residents of Rose Hill Cemetery. More than 280 included thus far.

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02 June 2009

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The Humble Dead in Rose Hill Cemetery

"On fame's eternal camping ground,
The silent tents are spread,
While glory guards with solemn round
The bivouac of the dead."

No costly marble marks the spot of the silent sleepers. There has been no portraiture of their death-bed scenes. No long extended notices were published announcing their decease. But sadly and silently they were borne away, and soon the brown autumn leave covered the new made graves. The birds sang their plaintive songs amid the overhanging boughs. The winds sighed a sad requiem and all was soon hushed into deep forgetfulness. Their stations in life were humble, yet many, very many of them did their parts nobly, heroically in life, were kind fathers, devoted wives, noble sons, loving sisters, the toiling mechanic, the just merchant, the private soldier each filled his earthly mission and have gone to their long homes. Let us not forget the humble sleepers in Rose Hill. -- PAUL BLUNT (1882)

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