Southern Graves

"Nothing at all," he would reply. Wm. Fish Family Vault prior to 2008 restoration. 1 What makes this simple Q & A a little odd though, is Mr. Fish is dead, and the conversation is taking place on both sides of the walls of his burial vault. The (ghost) story goes, after his wife and child died of typhus and were entombed in the crypt, Mr. Fish went inside with his rocking chair and bricked himself in. Legend has it that children would knock on the door, and the short and sweet conversation would commence. Unfortunately (or 'fortunately,' depending on one's perspective), there is no truth to this story. The biggest reason being Mr. William Fish died two years before his youngest son, and a dozen or so years before his wife: Southern Recorder (Milledgeville, GA) 10 January 1843 DIED. Departed this life at his residence in Washington county, on Sunday evening the 1st inst., Mr. WILLIAM FISH, in the 43d year of his age. Mr. Fish was a highly worth...

Col. Colquitt & Julia Jordan Photo © 2011/2 S. Lincecum Julia Flournoy Hurt Colquitt Jordan rests in Linwood Cemetery at Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia. She is buried in a plot next to her father and first husband, Col. Peyton H. Colquitt, C.S.A (d. 1863). The front of Julia's elaborate tombstone is inscribed with the following: Julia Flournoy Jordan Only Child of Joel Early & Fannie Hurt Born June 13, 1842 Died Dec 30, 1891 Beyond These Shadows There's Peace The back of her monument contains a beautiful verse from a poem called "There Is No Death!" by J. L. McCreery : The Birdlike Voice Whose Joyous Tones Made Glad These Scenes Of Sin And Strife, Sings Now An Everlasting Song Around The Tree Of Life. Julia's second husband was Leonidas A. Jordan, "one of Macon's most popular and highly esteemed citizens...a cultivated gentleman of great wealth,...known throughout the state as one of the largest planters and real estate owne...