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The death of Alonzo S. Church was mourned by many in the Athens and University of Georgia communities, as Church had great influence in both. As a Presbyterian minister, Church often assisted poor churches who could not afford a minister by offering…

Mary Dorothy Lyndon, a vastly educated woman, was the first woman to receive a degree from the University of Georgia. As Associate Professor of Education and Dean of Women at the University of Georgia, she was able to implement a number of programs…

William Anderson Bain was a veteran of the Civil War, killed in Athens while working as a pattern maker at the Athens Foundry.

Chester P Adair was a private with the U.S. Army and served with the American expeditionary forces during World War I. He contracted pneumonia while in Toule, France and died in a French hospital on September 18, 1918 at the age of 25. He was the son…

Colonel William G. Deloney founded and commanded a cavalry company in the Cobb Legion of the Army of Northern Virginia from 1861-1863, before being killed in action.

Active member of the Athens Ladies Memorial Association, Mildred Lewis Rutherford, a.k.a. "Miss Millie", was a prominent historian for the Confederate telling of the Civil War.

He was an American solider for the United States from 1842 to 1861. He resigned from the United States and joined the confederacy until 1865 using his skills as an engineer.

Sara Cobb Baxter was born to Howell Cobb and Mary McKinley in Athens, Georgia on March 7, 1882. She was the great-great-granddaughter of William McKinley and a member of the upper class.

Maria Nickerson was the wife of Reuben Nickerson and a member of the Oconee Street Methodist Church for 54 years. She is buried in plot WH103 in Oconee Hill Cemetery.