Rose Hill Cemetery (Macon, Georgia)

Simri Rose, Ambrose Baber, Levi Eckley, and R. W. Willis were commissioned in 1836 to find a place for what would become Macon's third cemetery (Fort Hill Cemetery and Old City Cemetery were the first and second, respectively.) The committee decided to establish the cemetery outside of the city because the land there was less expensive. As a horticulturist, Simri Rose was personally involved in deciding the location and type of trees and flowers. Rose Hill Cemetery was originally designed to be a garden cemetery with landscaping, similar to Mount Auburn Cemetery, as it was intended to function as both a cemetery and a local park. == Cemetery sections ==

The cemetery has one Catholic section for Saint Joseph's Catholic Church and seven Jewish sections: Hebrew Lot, Jew Lot, New Hebrew Lot, Polish Lot, Russian Lot, Sherah Israel, and William Wolff. Oak Ridge, a section within Rose Hill Cemetery that was created in 1851, is the final resting place for an unknown number of slaves. Soldier's Square holds around 600 Confederate troops. == Current condition ==

Many factors contribute to the cemetery's change in appearance. Age and exposure to the elements weathered marble statues and tombstones. Most of the dirt paths were paved between 1927 and 1960. A tornado on March 13, 1954, also uprooted many trees. The addition of a railroad in 1881 cut off access to the Ocmulgee River and Interstate 16 added traffic noise. ==Notable interments== • Duane Allman • Gregg Allman • Clifford Anderson • Augustus Octavius Bacon • Charles Lafayette Bartlett • John Birch • James Henderson Blount • Peter J. Bracken – engineer of stolen The Texas locomotive in the Great Locomotive Chase • Alfred H. Colquitt • Philip Cook • Harry Stillwell Edwards • Eugenia Tucker Fitzgerald • Samuel Francis Gove • LeRoy Wiley Gresham • Thomas Hardeman Jr. • Nathaniel Edwin Harris • James Jackson – US Congressman, judge advocate in the American Civil War, and a chief justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia. • Henry Graybill Lamar • John Basil Lamar • Buck Melton – Mayor of Macon, Georgia (1975–79) • Elizabeth Reed Napier (1845–1935) – inspiration for the Allman Brothers song "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" • Eugenius Aristides Nisbet • Berry Oakley • Oliver H. Prince • J. Neel Reid • Simri Rose – Rose Hill Cemetery's architect and designer • George Washington Bonaparte Towns • Edward D. Tracy • Butch Trucks • Phil Walden • Blanton Winship – Major general of the United States Army, Judge Advocate General (1931–33), Governor of Puerto Rico (1934–39) == Gallery ==

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