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LAMAR and related families gravesites and inscriptions in Memory Hill Cemetery, Milledgeville, Georgia. Transcribed by J. L. Sibley Jennings, Jr., from Historic Memory Hill Cemetery, Milledgeville, Georgia, 1804-1997 , published 1998, Boyd Publishing Company, POBox 367, Milledgeville, Georgia, 31061; editors: Susan J. Harrington, Hugh T. Harrington, Floride Moore Gardner. Copyright 1998. ISBN: 1-890307-05-X
NOTE: Index of this volume lists forty (40) identified Lamar surname gravesites, six (6) Chappell surname gravesites; the following description of each cemetery lot will, as in the book, enumerate unmarked and unidentified gravesites therein, as well as children, etc., of Lamar’s without the Lamar surname, or, possible Lamar descendants who are somehow identified with the Lamar surname.
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There are Ten (10) cemetery lots whose interments are described herein:
LOT: LAMAR surname, etc.:
East, D (dee), 18 (eighteen): [Byington - Gilmore Lot]
# 5: William Hubert Lindsey / 31 Jul 1921 / 18 Oct 1991 /
“Son of Horace Green Lindsey & Rosa Lamar Lindsey;
WW II Soldier; PFC US Army.”
# 6: Rosa Lamar Lindsey / 14 Nov 1892 / 14 Sep 1966 /
“Daughter of James Lawrence Byington & Eula Gilmore Byington.”
East, I (eye), 8 (eight): [Colonel Zachariah Lamar lot]
# 2 Mary Ann Lamar / ca. 1784 / 17 Sep 1823 /
“Wife of Col. Zachariah Lamar; aged 39"
# 3 Louisa Catherine Jane Lamar / ca. 2 Jan 1803 / 16 Sep 1804 /
“Daughter of Zachariah Lamar, aged 1 yr, 8 mos, 14 d”
[Note: earliest known burial in Memory Hill]
# 4 Thomas Robinson Lamar / ca. 16 Sep 1807 / 25 Sep 1811 /
“Son of Zachariah Lamar; aged 4 yrs 9 days”
# 5 William Lamar / ca. 2 Sep 1811 / 28 Sep 1811 /
“Son of Zachariah Lamar; aged 26 days”
# 6 Zachariah Lamar / ca. Nov 1809 / 11 Oct 1814 /
“Son of Zachariah Lamar; aged 4 yrs, 11 ms”
# 7 Walter Lamar / ca. 18 Nov 1814 / 23 Aug 1815 /
“Son of Zachariah Lamar; aged 9 ms 5 days”
# 8 Horace Carnot Lamar / ca. Jan 1804 / 11 May 1823 /
“Son of Zachariah Lamar; aged 19 yrs 4 ms”
# 9 Zachariah Lamar / ca. May 1820 / 5 Jul 1826 /
“Buried at Jefferson Bath; aged 6 yrs 2 ms
Son of Zachariah Lamar.”
East, J (jay), 37 (thrity-seven): [Thomas B. Lamar lot; adjacent to R. J. Nichols lot]
# 2 (unmarked child slab)
# 3 (unmarked child slab)
# 4 Frances J. Lamar / 24 Jul 1841 / 12 Aug 1841
[Note: joined with slab of George D. Lamar]
# 5 George D. [Deming] Lamar / 29 Jun 1855 / 23 Jul 1855
[Note: with slab of Frances J. Lamar]
# 6 Henry G. Lamar / ca 1859 / 12 Nov 1859 /
“age 1 month”
# 7 Lelia H. Lamar / ca 1857 / 28 Oct 1860 /
“age 3 years, 6 months”
# 8 Thomas B. [Bainbridge] Lamar / ca 1819 / 8 Feb 1866 /
“age 47 years”
# 9 Rebecca N. [Nichols] Lamar / ca 1823 / 14 Jun 1863 /
“age 40 years”
[Note: daughter of Richard J. Nichols, adjacent]
West, A (ay), 20 (twenty): [Lamar - Shealy lot]
# 2 Leon Lamar / 1888 / 1968
# 3 John Thomas Shealy / 29 Apr 1887 / 21 Aug 1928
# 4 Lillian Lamar Shealy / 1888 / 1975
# 5 William A. Lamar / 1876 / 1934
West, E (ee), 21 (twenty-one): [Harris-Bird-Thomas-Pennington-Moore lot]
# 2 Marie Lillian J. Lamar / 5 Feb 1880 / 18 Dec 1973
# 3 Helen Lamar Passailaigue / 11 Dec 1898 / 1 Feb 1988
# 4 Mona Stevens Lamar / 6 Jun 1912 / 1 Nov 1955 /
“Wife of Hugh R. Lamar”
West, H (aitch) 49 (forty-nine):
# 2 Leila Lamar Sibley / 4 Aug 1891 / 15 Jan 1982
[Note: 2nd wife and widow of James Longstreet Sibley]
# 3 Leila Horne Nall Lamar / 28 Jul 1850 / 10 Jul 1936
# 4 Lucius James Lamar / 10 May 1847 / 11 Jun 1924 /
CSA Soldier Co. B, Cadet BN, Georgia Military Institute
# 5 James N. Lamar / ca 1872 / 12 Oct 1899 /
“aged 27 years”
# 6 Helen R. Lamar (no dates)
“Wife”
# 7 Richard V. Lamar / 8 Apr 1883 / 22 Jan 1959
# 8 Delores Faglia Lamar / 30 Nov 1884 / 15 May 1963
[Note: widow of Richard Lamar, mother of Italo Lamar of Marietta, Ga.]
# 9 Lucius Q. C. Lamar / 9 May 1874 / 9 Oct 1955
[prominent and had businesses in US & Cuba; I believe I am correct in stating that he founded one of the schools or colleges at the University of Havana; husband of Maria Theresa Perez y Chaumont whose first husband was, I believe, VP of Cuba and president of the Federal Reserve; Maria Theresa’s sister, I think I remember, was a great beauty who married a US senator and they embarked on their honeymoon in a private railroad car but the excitement was too much for his heart and he expired in the midst of his exertions - which resulted in explicitly embarrassing ditties being hummed around the Capitol and the Washington social scene for years! I was having dinner with Leila Lamar Sibley (my step-great-grandmother) one evening in the early ‘60's during the Cuban missile crisis when a report on the news showed films of Russian “technicians” housed in Havana in some of the fine homes confiscated by Castro to which Leila, as she watched the report, was moaning “this is all so familiar...”; then as the camera was panning around the former ballroom showing Russians playing ping-pong in the middle of the room and smashed gilded chairs and shattered chandelier in the background, the camera swung around more to concentrate on the huge fireplace-mantel and a life-sized painting above it, as the announcer stated “...and this is the portrait of the former owner ...” and Leila screamed, “Oh, my God, its Maria Theresa...” That shook Leila to her core. I never have found out what happened to Maria Theresa; I am not sure if Leila ever learned more about the end of her sister-in-law. SJ. ]
# 10 Leon Lamar (infant slab) (no dates)
# 2 Elizabeth A. Gonder Latimer / 26 Jun 1819 / 31 Jan 1903 /
“Wife of Thomas H. Latimer”
# 3 Lucie Latimer Lamar / 15 Jul 1846 / 29 Jun 1897 /
“Wife”
# 4 Bessie Lamar Nall / 18 Oct 1869 / 15 Dec 1900 /
“Wife of James Horne Nall, Daughter of Richard N. & Lucie L. Lamar”
# 5 Richard Nichols Lamar / 19 Jan 1845 / 31 Jul 1909 /
CSA Solder Co. A, Phillips Legion
[Note: son of Thomas Bainbridge Lamar & Rebecca Nichols L.]
West, D (dee), 76 (seventy-six):
# 2 Cornelia Chappell / 11 Mar 1894 / 3 May 1991
[Note: Daughter of J. Harris & Henrietta Chappell; but no inscription so stating]
# 3 Calmese Chappell / 10 Jul 1892 / 17 Jul 1892 /
“Infant daughter of J. Harris & Etta Chappell”
# 4 Joseph Harris Chappell / 18 Oct 1849 / 6 Apr 1906 /
“First President of Georgia Normal & Industrial College / b. Bibb County, Ga., d. Columbus, Ga.” [Note: GN&IC was later known as Georgia State College for Women, then when it became co-ed name changed to Georgia College at Milledgeville, now named Georgia College & State University.]
# 5 Henrietta Kincaid Chappell / 31 Jul 1866 / 21 Mar 1928 /
“Widow of J. Harris Chappell” (Plaque:) “Organizing Regent, Nancy Hart Chapter, D. A. R.”
# 6 Dorothy Harris Chappell / 25 Jan 1899 / 19 Feb 1925
[Note: Daughter of J. Harris & Henrietta Chappell, but no inscripton so stating].