Brooks County GaArchives Photo place.....West End Cemetery Historical Marker July 3 2000
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Donna Davenport donnasfam@yahoo.com November 16, 2004, 4:38 pm

Source: West End Cemetery, Quitman, Brooks County, Georgia
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West End Cemetery

In this cemetery, during the last year of the War Between the States, a number 
of Confederate soldiers, 17 of them unknown were buried.  Memorial services 
for these soldiers were held as early as 1869.  In 1871, on Memorial Day, 
April 26, a group of orphans from the Confederate Home, Lauderdale, Miss., 
attended the services.  One child, by chance, found the grave of her father.  
In 1873 the Ladies Memorial Association was formed.  This became the Quitman 
Memorial Association and is not the Quitman Chapter, Daughters of the 
Confederacy, who own and maintain this cemetery.

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