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William Henry Adams (1850-1912) —
also known as William H. Adams —
of Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga.
Born in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., August
4, 1850.
Bookkeeper;
Vice-Consul
for Brazil in Savannah,
Ga., 1884-1903.
English ancestry.
Died in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., January
13, 1912 (age 61 years, 162
days).
Interment at Laurel
Grove North Cemetery, Savannah, Ga.
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Nathan Crawford Barnett (c.1801-1890) —
also known as Nathan C. Barnett —
of Georgia.
Born in Columbia
County, Ga., about 1801.
Member of Georgia
state house of representatives; elected 1836; secretary
of state of Georgia, 1843-49, 1851-53, 1861-68, 1873-90.
English and Scottish
ancestry.
In 1864, as Union troops approached Georgia's then capital of
Milledgeville, he hid and protected the Great Seal of Georgia
underneath his house.
Died February
4, 1890 (age about 89
years).
Interment at Memory
Hill Cemetery, Milledgeville, Ga.
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Relatives: Son
of William Barnett and Anna (Crawford) Barnett; married to Margaret
J. Morton; married 1841 to Mary
Ann Cooper; nephew of William
Harris Crawford. |
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William de Bruyn=Kops (1860-1957) —
of Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga.
Born in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., November
4, 1860.
Cotton
exporter;
Consul
for Netherlands in Savannah,
Ga., 1888-1903.
Dutch,
English, and Scottish
ancestry.
Died in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., August
8, 1957 (age 96 years, 277
days).
Interment at Laurel
Grove North Cemetery, Savannah, Ga.
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Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821-1877) —
also known as "Wizard of the Saddle" —
of Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn.
Born near Chapel Hill, Bedford County (now Marshall
County), Tenn., July 13,
1821.
Democrat. Cotton planter; slave
trader; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; in
April 1864, after the Battle of Fort Pillow, Tennessee, Confederate
troops under his command massacred
African-American Union soldiers, not accepting them as prisoners,
since the Confederacy refused to
recognize ex-slaves as legitimate combatants; this event, seen as
a war
crime, sparked outrage
across the North, and a congressional inquiry;
in 1867, he became involved in the Ku Klux
Klan and was elected Grand Wizard; the organization used violent
tactics to intimidate
Black voters and suppress
their votes; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Tennessee, 1868;
in 1869, he had a change of heart, and issued a letter ordering that
the Klan be dissolved and its costumes destroyed; he went on to
denounce the group and its crimes; in 1875, he gave a "friendly
speech" to a meeting of an African-American organization in Memphis,
calling for peace, harmony, and economic advancement of former
slaves; for this speech, he was vehemently denounced in the Southern
press.
English ancestry. Member, Ku Klux Klan.
After his death, he became a folk hero among white Southerners,
particularly during the imposition of Jim Crow segregation laws in
the early 20th century, and later, in reaction to the Civil Rights
movement in the 1950s and 1960s.
Slaveowner.
Died, from complications of diabetes,
in Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn., October
29, 1877 (age 56 years, 108
days).
Original interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Memphis, Tenn.; reinterment in 1904 at Health Sciences Park, Memphis, Tenn.; memorial monument at Myrtle
Hill Cemetery, Rome, Ga.; memorial monument at Live
Oak Cemetery, Selma, Ala.
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Dupont Guerry (b. 1848) —
of Macon, Bibb
County, Ga.
Born in Americus, Sumter
County, Ga., March
26, 1848.
Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
member of Georgia
state senate 13th District; elected 1880; U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia, 1886-1901;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Georgia, 1892;
candidate for Governor of
Georgia, 1902; president,
Wesleyan Female College, 1903-09.
Methodist.
French
Huguenot and English ancestry.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of William Barnett Guerry and Sarah Amanda (Dixon) Guerry; married,
January
12, 1876, to Fannie Davenport. |
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William Schley Howard (1875-1953) —
also known as William S. Howard —
of Kirkwood (now part of Atlanta), DeKalb
County, Ga.
Born in Kirkwood (now part of Atlanta), DeKalb
County, Ga., June 29,
1875.
Democrat. Lawyer;
private secretary to U.S. Sen. Patrick
Walsh, 1894-95; served in the U.S. Army during the
Spanish-American War; member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1900; solicitor general, Stone
Mountain judicial circuit, 1905-11; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 5th District, 1911-19.
English ancestry.
Died in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., August
1, 1953 (age 78 years, 33
days).
Interment at Decatur
Cemetery, Decatur, Ga.
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Chase Salmon Osborn (1860-1949) —
also known as Chase S. Osborn —
of Sault Ste. Marie, Chippewa
County, Mich.
Born in a log
house in Huntington
County, Ind., January
22, 1860.
Republican. Newspaper
publisher; postmaster at Sault
Ste. Marie, Mich., 1889-93; member of Michigan
Republican State Executive Committee, 1899; member of Michigan
Republican State Central Committee, 1899; member of University
of Michigan board of regents, 1908-11; appointed 1908; delegate
to Republican National Convention from Michigan, 1908;
Governor
of Michigan, 1911-12; defeated, 1914; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1918, 1930; candidate for Republican
nomination for Vice President, 1928;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Michigan.
Presbyterian.
English, French,
and Irish
ancestry. Member, Kiwanis;
Lions;
Knights
of Pythias; Audubon
Society; National Rifle
Association; Sigma
Chi; Sigma
Delta Chi; Pi Gamma
Mu; Sons of
the American Revolution; Elks; Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Grange.
Died April
11, 1949 (age 89 years, 79
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Chippewa County, Mich.
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John Pattillo Ridley (b. 1955) —
also known as John Ridley —
of Decatur, DeKalb
County, Ga.
Born in Crawford Long Emory University Hospital,
Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., February
25, 1955.
Democrat. Special assistant, U.S. Congress, 1974-78; legislative
attaché, Georgia General Assembly, 1978-80; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Georgia, 1980,
1988
(alternate); candidate for Georgia
state house of representatives 56th District, 1980; vice-chair,
DeKalb County Democratic Party, 1980-84; city commissioner, Decatur,
Ga., 1998-2002.
Presbyterian.
Scottish
and English ancestry.
Still living as of 2003.
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Relatives: Son
of Harry William Ridley, Jr. and Francis Jo Pattillo Ridley; married
2000 to
Susan Elaine Hart Ridley. |
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H. F. Wolstenholme (born c.1820) —
of Asheville, Buncombe
County, N.C.; Jonesborough, Washington
County, Tenn.; Albany, Dougherty
County, Ga.
Born in England,
about 1820.
Tailor;
postmaster at Asheville,
N.C., 1865-66.
English ancestry.
Burial location unknown.
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