Rose Hill Cemetery (Georgia)
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Rose Hill Cemetery is an American cemetery in Macon, Georgia. The cemetery opened in 1840.
[edit] Notable interments
- Howard Duane Allman
- Clifford Anderson
- Augustus Octavius Bacon
- Charles Lafayette Bartlett
- James Henderson Blount
- Peter Bracken
- Alfred Holt Colquitt
- Philip Cook
- Harry Stillwell Edwards
- Martha Ellis - (12 year old) namesake of Allman Brothers guitar solo "Little Martha"
- Samuel Francis Gove
- Nathaniel Edwin Harris
- James Jackson - United States Representative from Georgia, a judge advocate in the American Civil War, and a chief justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.
- Henry Graybill Lamar
- John Basil Lamar
- Eugenius Aristides Nisbet
- Raymond Berry Oakley III
- Elizabeth Napier Reed - namesake of Allman Brothers song In Memory of Elizabeth Reed
- J. Neel Reed
- George Washington Bonaparte Towns
- Edward Dorr Tracy
- Phillip Michael Walden, Sr.
[edit] Trivia
The cemetery was a hangout for the Allman Brothers Band during their early years. Several songs share their namesake with some the interred. Legendary slide guitarist from the Allman Brothers Duane Allman and bassist Berry Oakley are also interred here, side by side.
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