Southern Graves

From Wikipedia : Atomic veterans are United States military veterans who were exposed to ionizing radiation while stationing in the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the American occupation of Japan before 1946 (including certain veterans who were prisoners of war there) and thousands of servicemen who took part in atmospheric nuclear tests (1945-1962)... ...A formal investigation of the radiation exposure these veterans received, as well as radiation experiments conducted on humans, was initiated in 1994, by former President Bill Clinton, who apologized for their treatment in 1995. "In 1996, the U.S. Congress repealed the Nuclear Radiation Secrecy Agreement Act, which rescinded the Atomic Veteran “oath-of-secrecy,” thus allowing Atomic-Veterans the opportunity to recount stories of their participation in Nuclear weapon testing and post test event activities, without legal penalty. By this time,however, many thousands of Atomic Veterans, the majority of whom were...

Here are some final scenes from my 2013 visit to St. Paul's Church and Graveyard in Augusta, Georgia. More Church Photos. To Commemorate the Great Congress of Five Indian Nations Held Here at Fort Augusta in 1763, when Seven Hundred Indians Came to Meet the Governors of Georgia, Virginia, North and South Carolina. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Erected by the Augusta Committee of the Georgia Society of the Colonial Dames of America. 1930 (Click to enlarge.) More information on Fort Augusta.

In Memory of MARY the Wife of HUGH NESBITT who departed this life the 8 th Day of December A.D. 1802 in the 25 th Year of her age. Also of JAMES WILSON NESBITT their Son who died the 7 th Day of January A.D. 1803 Aged 7 weeks & 2 Days I'll bet some childbirth issues were involved. St. Paul's Church Cemetery Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia

In Memory of MARIA wife of Samuel G. Starr, fhe died Nov. 5, 1817, Æ 28, she was daugh r of Eben r R. & Hannah White. (of Danbury Conn.) A quick search at GenealogyBank revealed a death notice for Maria that was run in a few Connecticut newspapers. This notice gave us her husband's middle name: Connecticut Herald (New Haven, Connecticut) 9 December 1817, pg. 3 DIED. In Augusta, (Geo.) Mrs. Maria Starr, wife of Mr. Gregory Starr, late of Danbury, and daughter of Mr. Ebenezer R. White. One other note: The three blocks of art carved near the top of Maria's tombstone provide a bit of symbolism. In between what I would call daisies is a weeping willow draping over an urn. According to Stories in Stone by Douglas Keister, "The willow and urn motif was one of the most popular gravestone decorations of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries." The willow not only represents grief and sorrow, but also immortality. (Image from) St. Paul...

to the Memory of ROBERT MITCHELL of Queens County in New York who died March 22 nd 1808 [9?], in his 32 nd Year. He left his home in search of health, but sunk under his disease at Augusta. St. Paul's Church Cemetery Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia