Summerville Cemetery-GHM 121-36-Richmond Co
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N 33° 28.804 W 082° 00.927
17S E 405655 N 3704970
Cumming Road at John's Road, Augusta
Waymark Code: WM78P9
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 09/20/2009
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In this cemetery are buried the following eminent Georgians:
JOHN MILLEDGE (1757-1818), Revolutionary officer, Congressman, Governor (1802-1806). He gave the land on which the University of Georgia is built.
GEORGE WALKER CRAWFORD (1798-1872), lawyer, legislator, Congressman, Governor (1843-1847), Secretary of War under President Zachary Taylor, President of the State Secession Convention (1861).
CHARLES JONES JENKINS (1805-1883), lawyer, jurist, legislator, State Senator, Governor (1865-1868). Removed from office by Gen. Meade, he hid the State Seal, records and funds until Governor James Milton Smith was inaugurated in 1872.
ALFRED CUMMING (1802-1873) Superintendent of Indian Affairs on upper Missouri, appointed by President Buchanan first Governor of Territory of Utah (1857-1861) during the "Mormon War." He retired from office when Georgia seceded from the Union.
JOSEPH RUCKER LAMAR (1857-1916), lawyer, legislator, jurist, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (1911-1916). He compiled "The Code of the State of Georgia."
THOMAS CUMMING (1765-1834), the first "intendant" (Mayor) of Augusta (1798). He gave the land for the cemetery.
Type of Marker: Highway
Marker #: 121-36
Date: 1957
Sponsor: GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION
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