The Honorable Francis Hiram Cone, in addition to being a well-respected lawyer and judge, seems to have been quite the character. I found several articles depicting him as such -- with emphasis on his faults as well as good quality traits. Here are a few highlights from three of the items I found. All were viewed online at GenealogyBank . Article one is from the 25 May 1859 edition of Georgia's Augusta Chronicle , page 2, entitled simply "OBITUARY". Died at his residence in Greensboro, Ga., on Wednesday, the 18th May, 1859, the Hon. FRANCIS H. CONE, one of the most eminent lawyers of the South. He was born in the township of East Haddam, in the State of Connecticut, on the 5th day of September, 1797, at the family mansion, where his ancestors had lived for more than one hundred and fifty years. He died the proprietor of his paternal acres, bequeathing them to one of his sons. His father was a soldier in the war of Independence, and participated in several of the...
Telling the Tales of Tombstones