Index to Locations
Bethlehem United Methodist Church
Private or family graveyards
Bowman Hillcrest Cemetery
Elberton Elmhurst Cemetery
Elberton Heard Cemetery
Bethlehem United
Methodist Church
Elbert County, Georgia
Private or family
graveyard
Elbert County, Georgia
Hillcrest
Cemetery
Bowman, Elbert County, Georgia
Politicians buried
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Woodrow Wilson Lavender (1916-1989) —
also known as Woodrow W. Lavender —
of Elberton, Elbert
County, Ga.; Bowman, Elbert
County, Ga.
Born May 8,
1916.
Democrat. Lawyer;
alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from Georgia, 1968.
Died, from cancer,
in Bowman, Elbert
County, Ga., July 7,
1989 (age 73 years, 60
days).
Interment at Hillcrest Cemetery.
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Elmhurst
Cemetery
Elberton, Elbert County, Georgia
Politicians buried
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Paul Brown (1880-1961) —
of Lexington, Oglethorpe
County, Ga.; Elberton, Elbert
County, Ga.
Born near Hartwell, Hart
County, Ga., March
31, 1880.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1907-08; Elbert
County Attorney, 1928-33; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Georgia, 1932,
1952;
U.S.
Representative from Georgia 10th District, 1933-61.
Methodist.
Died in Elberton, Elbert
County, Ga., September
24, 1961 (age 81 years, 177
days).
Interment at Elmhurst Cemetery.
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Thomas Jefferson Heard (1801-1876) —
of Elbert
County, Ga.
Born in Elbert
County, Ga., August
21, 1801.
Lawyer;
planter;
member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1832-33; member of Georgia
state senate, 1835-36.
Died in Elberton, Elbert
County, Ga., May 4,
1876 (age 74 years, 257
days).
Interment at Elmhurst Cemetery.
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William H. Mattox (1836-1900) —
of Elbert
County, Ga.
Born in Elbert
County, Ga., 1836.
Planter;
merchant;
served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1865-66; delegate
to Georgia state constitutional convention, 1877; member of Georgia
state senate, 1880-81.
Shot
and killed by
his son-in-law J. B. Jones, Jr., during a gunfight, in Elbert
County, Ga., November
17, 1900 (age about 64
years).
Interment at Elmhurst Cemetery.
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Phillip Watkins Davis —
also known as Phillip W. Davis —
of Elbert
County, Ga.
Lawyer;
Baptist
minister; member of Georgia
state senate, 1882-83; member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1888-89.
Baptist.
Interment at Elmhurst Cemetery.
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Luther H. O. Martin Sr. (1821-1866) —
of Elbert
County, Ga.
Born in 1821.
Member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1853-54; delegate
to Georgia secession convention, 1861; served in the Confederate
Army during the Civil War.
Died in 1866
(age about
45 years).
Interment at Elmhurst Cemetery.
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Robert Middleton Heard (1836-1910) —
of Elbert
County, Ga.
Born in 1836.
Member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1884-85.
Died in 1910
(age about
74 years).
Interment at Elmhurst Cemetery.
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Willis B. Adams (1861-1913) —
of Elbert
County, Ga.
Born in Georgia, May 13,
1861.
Merchant;
planter;
member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1905-08.
Died February
11, 1913 (age 51 years, 274
days).
Interment at Elmhurst Cemetery.
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Richard Easton Adams (1833-1913) —
also known as Richard E. Adams —
Born in Georgia, November
19, 1833.
Member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1886-87.
Died August
21, 1913 (age 79 years, 275
days).
Interment at Elmhurst Cemetery.
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Heard
Cemetery
Elberton, Elbert County, Georgia
Founded 1800
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Stephen Heard (1741-1815) —
of Elbert
County, Ga.
Born in Hanover
County, Va., November
13, 1741.
Engineer;
planter;
served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; Governor of
Georgia, 1780-81; member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1794-95.
Died in Elbert
County, Ga., November
15, 1815 (age 74 years, 2
days).
Interment at Heard Cemetery.
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Relatives:
Married 1760 to Jane
Germany; married, August
25, 1785, to Elizabeth Darden; father of Jane Lanier Heard (who
married Singleton
Walthall Allen), George
Washington Heard, Barnard
Carroll Heard and Thomas
Jefferson Heard; grandfather of Sarah Heard (who married Luther
H. O. Martin Sr.), Rebecca Allen (who married William
H. Mattox), James
Lawrence Heard, Robert
Middleton Heard and William
Henry Heard; great-grandfather of Anna Cassandra McIntosh (who
married Budd
Clay Wall), Nancy Middleton Heard (who married Phillip
Watkins Davis), William
Henry Harrison Heard and Luther
H. O. Martin Jr.. |
|  | Political family: Heard
family of Elberton, Georgia. |
|  | Heard County,
Ga. is named for him. |
|  | See also National Governors
Association biography — Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Peyton Samuel Hawes (1903-1990) —
also known as Peyton Hawes —
of Elbert
County, Ga.
Born September
4, 1903.
Lawyer;
member of Georgia
state house of representatives from Elbert County, 1931-32; justice of
Georgia state supreme court, 1970-73.
Died September
9, 1990 (age 87 years, 5
days).
Interment at Heard Cemetery.
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Singleton Walthall Allen (1793-1853) —
of Elbert
County, Ga.
Born in Elbert
County, Ga., January
14, 1793.
Member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1828-31; member of Georgia
state senate, 1838, 1845-46.
Died in Elbert
County, Ga., June 6,
1853 (age 60 years, 143
days).
Interment at Heard Cemetery.
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William McPherson McIntosh (1815-1862) —
of Georgia.
Born in Elbert
County, Ga., February
14, 1815.
Democrat. Lawyer; planter;
member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1846-47; member of Georgia
state senate, 1855-56; Democratic Presidential Elector for
Georgia, 1860;
general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Died from gunshot
wounds received at the Civil
War battle at Garnett's Farm, Henrico
County, Va., June, 1862
(age 47
years, 0 days).
Interment at Heard Cemetery.
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Budd Clay Wall (1847-1930) —
of North Augusta, Aiken
County, S.C.
Born April
24, 1847.
Mayor
of North Augusta, S.C., 1890.
Died in 1930
(age about
83 years).
Interment at Heard Cemetery.
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George Washington Heard (1781-1838) —
of Elbert
County, Ga.
Born June 14,
1781.
Physician;
member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1824-27.
Died November
17, 1838 (age 57 years, 156
days).
Interment at Heard Cemetery.
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