Hancock County GaArchives Obituaries.....Hitchcock, Ethan Allen August 5, 1870
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Atlanta Constitution, 28 August 1870
Major-General [United States] Ethan Allen Hitchcock died a few days ago in 
Hancock [Sparta], Georgia, in the seventy-second year of his age.  Not many 
years ago, by his intermarriage with Mrs. Nichols, of Nashville, he became 
known to many of our citizens.
He was the grandson of Ethan Allen, of immortal memory.

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Born, Vergennes, Vermont, 18 May 1798, his mother being a daughter of Ethan 
Allen.  Graduate of West Point military academy [1817], he served in the 
Seminole and Mexican Wars, and in the War Between The States as Major-General 
of volunteers, being a close personal friend and advisor of President Lincoln. 
He was the author of many books on alchemy, a disciple of Emanuel Swedenborg, 
and is buried in the Post cemetery at West Point, New York.

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