Bibb County GaArchives Photo Tombstone.....Davis, Rodney Maxwell 
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Cemetery:           Linwood Cemetery
Name:               Rodney Maxwell Davis

Date Of Photograph: June 25, 2005
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Rodney Maxwell Davis

Medal of Honor Recipient

"Georgia, Sgt. Co. A. 5 Marine 1 Marine Division, Vietnam"

b: 7 April 1942

d: 6 September 1967

"Recipient of the Purple Heart Award"


Additional Comments:
This is the military marker that is attached to Rodney Maxwell Davis slab in 
the cemetery.  The students in the R.O.T.C. at a local high school made a sign 
designating this grave sight with the Marine Corp insignia.

The Bibb County Sheriff's Office is taking care of making sure the grass and 
area around the grave sight are kept clean and mowed.  The Linwood cemetery is 
not a perpetual care cemetery and the owners do not cut the grass or make sure 
the cemetery is cleaned.  The people in the Pleasant Hill neighborhood have 
formed a community group that spends weekends cleaning parts of the cemetery 
and there is quite a bit of area to clean.  Most of the cemetery is still very 
grown over.  

If the owners of the cemetery will turn the cemetery over to a private 
organization or to the City or County, the prospects of keeping the cemetery 
clean will improve.

I have included the second marker for Rodney Davis because he deserves all the 
recognition he can get.  There is a eternal flame that burns beside City Hall 
in Macon, Georgia in his memory and a statue is being erected in his honor.

This man went above and beyond what the normal soldier does in the military.  
He saved his comrades by falling on a grenade and giving the ultimate 
sacrifice for his fellow human beings and his fellow soldiers.  I will always 
think of him as a hero.

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