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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Banner Watchman 1883]]></dcterms:title>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ben T. Epps]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Ben T. Epps]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The father of the state&#039;s aviation, Ben Epps—inventor, mechanic, and aviator]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Amelia Collier]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[Hudson, Paul Stephen. &quot;Ben Epps.&quot; New Georgia Encyclopedia. N.p., 06 Dec. 2002. Web. 11 Apr. 2016.]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[4/14/16]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Jackson Alexander Griner]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[New Georgia Encyclopedia ]]></dcterms:rights>
    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[English]]></dcterms:language>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[The father of the state's aviation, Ben Epps—inventor, mechanic, and aviator—was the first Georgian to build and fly an airplane. Over a thirty-year career Epps was an innovator who instilled a love of flying in many young Georgians, including his own children. Aviation Pioneer. A native of Oconee County, Georgia, this mechanic became a self-taught aviator. Known as “Georgia’s first aviator” he built the Epps Monoplane in 1907, followed by five new designs. The 1924 model of his Epps Monoplane weighed less than four hundred pounds, had a twenty-five feet wingspan and was powered by a two-cylinder motorcycle engine. It got twenty-five miles to the gallon and traveled at speeds of up to sixty miles per hour. In 1917 he opened an airport and operated an airplane service. He died of injuries received when the engine in one of his light bi-planes failed shortly after take off. All six of his sons and two of his three daughters followed in his footsteps by becoming pilots. The Athens/Ben Epps Airport in Athens, Georgia, is named in his honor.]]></dcterms:coverage>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Benjamin F. Culp]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[2nd regiment ga infantry Private M226 Roll 15]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Cody Godfree]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[B 3/15/1842 D 4/14/1918]]></dcterms:date>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Bertha Funkenstein Michael]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Bertha Funkenstein Michael]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Mollie Simon]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[March 3, 1863 - February 1, 1904]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Camily Williams]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Bertha Funkenstein Michael was the daughter of Rosa and Pincus (“Peter”) Funkenstein, the third president of Congregation Children of Israel in Athens, Georgia. She was born March 3, 1863—right in the middle of the Civil War—and her father, a German-born furniture salesman, likely resided on Hancock Avenue. Before living in Athens, her father lived in San Francisco, Ca. where he also sold furniture. Bertha was one of six children and, according to an oral history interview with her nephew, their family was pro-Union. 

Bertha married Lee J. Michael, a member of the Mount Vernon No. 22 masonic lodge. It is likely that the two met because both of their families were active in the Jewish congregation. In fact, by 1927, only 185 Jews lived in Athens according to the Institute of Southern Jewish Life, making it even tighter-knit 50 years earlier. 

Sometime before 1900, Lee and Bertha moved to Macon, Ga. According to ISJL, Children of Israel was becoming less orthodox and more reformed at that time, whereas the synagogue in Macon, Temple Beth Israel, was still orthodox after its founding in 1852. Descendants of Bertha and Lee’s four children attended Beth Israel, so it is possible the couple moved because of the more religious community.  

During their lifetimes, the Michaels presumably lived comfortably. Lee’s cousins, Moses and Simon, owned Michael Brothers, a successful department store which operated in the tallest building in Athens before a fire sent them to their new location on East Clayton Street—the current building housing Mellow Mushroom. 

Bertha died (before both her parents) in Macon on February 1, 1904 after an illness, and in 1910 Lee moved back to Athens. He died nine years after his wife in South Carolina and is also buried in Oconee Hill.

At least one of Bertha’s children, Morris Michael, stayed in Macon and was buried there in the Riverside Cemetery in 1943, where his wife’s family, the Happs, are also interred. 

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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Birth Year]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[This graph shows the distribution of birth year of those buried in the Brooklyn Cemetery. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[file:///Users/Khrisdun/Desktop/WTFcsv_%20BrooklynCemetery_Index.xls%20(6).xlsx.html]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[Engagement Lab at Emerson College and the MIT Center<br />
for Civic Media]]></dcterms:publisher>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[birth, death, age]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Kristin Simmons]]></dcterms:creator>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Bishop Lucius Henry Holsey]]></dcterms:title>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Block Style]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Grave Markers]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Amelia Collier]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[April 14, 2016]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Still Image]]></dcterms:type>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Books, Scrolls, and Bibles]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Mortuary Symbology]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Amelia Collier]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[Amelia Collier]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[April 14, 2016]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Still Image]]></dcterms:type>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Bottle on Grave Headstone]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Erika Massie]]></dcterms:creator>
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