Samuel George Wynne - West End Cemetery - Quitman, GA
N 30° 47.090 W 083° 34.025
17R E 254342 N 3408574
Samuel George Wynne, one of the Woodmen of the World, is buried in the West End Cemetery in Quitman, Georgia, USA.
Waymark Code: WMFEVX
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 10/08/2012
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Close-up of headstone inscription:
Samuel George Wynne
Feb, 7, 1869
Aug. 18, 1918
ABOUT THE CEMETERY
This historic cemetery is surrounded with a lovely antique iron fence. The cemetery is well over a century old and is the final resting place of some of the earliest families of the city of Quitman. An historical marker in the cemetery provides the following information: "In this cemetery, during the last year of the War Between the States, a number of Confederate soldiers, 17 of them unknown, were buried. Memorial services for these soldiers were held as early as 1869. In 1871, on Memorial Day, April 26, a group of orphans from the Confederate Home, Lauderdale, Miss., attended the services. One child, by chance, found the grave of her father. In 1875 the Ladies Memorial Association was formed. This became the Quitman Memorial Association and is now the Quitman Chapter, Daughters of the Confederacy, who own and maintain this cemetery."