Hamilton Burying Ground Inscriptions Haralson County, GA

HAMILTON BURYING GROUND

Directions:  From center of Bremen, Georgia (where US 78 and US 27 
intersect) go north on US 27 to McPherson St., take right turn on McPherson 
St., go approximately 1 mile to  Crabapple Lane (just outside city limits), 
take left on Crabapple Lane, the cemetery is locted on left within a chain 
link fence. total distance 1.8 miles.

G. R. HAMILTON - Sept. 2, 1830 - Nov. 28, 1904 
(The G. R. stands for George Reid)

Margaret Reid HAMILTON - 
w/o John Lewis Hanilton, Sr. - Feb. 29, 1809 - April 11, 1862.

Archibald HAMILTON - Sept. 15, 1832 - Nov. 27, 1861

Lieut. Robert HAMILTON - Jan. 25, 1835 - Jun 3, 1864.

Information from Carl W. McPherson, a great nephew of Margaret:  Margaret 
Reid Hamilton is the mother of  G. A., Archibald, and Robert.  She and her 
husband John Lewis Hamilton had 10 children, including the three listed 
here. 

Five of her six sons served in the Civil War and three died as a result of 
the war, including Archibald  and Robert listed here.  John Lewis Hamilton, 
Sr.,  husband of Margaret Reid,  went to Texas after the Civil War with his 
daughter Margaret Hamilton Knight and died there, being buried in Deming 
Graveyard seven miles west of St. Augustine, Texas.

George Reid Hamilton was the first Probate Judge of Haralson county, Ga..  
He was Founder of Hamilton College, which later became Bremen, Ga. Public 
Schools.  He never married, nor his brother Archibald.  Robert Hamilton - 
2nd Lieutenant Mch. 4, 1862 - Elected 1st Lieutenant Sept. 2, 1862.  
Captured at Vicksburg, Miss. July 4, 1863, and oarolled there July 6, 1863.
Died susbseuent to April 21, 1864 - On Muster Roll of Co. G., 40th 
Regiment, Georgia Volunteer Infantry, Army of Tennessee, CSA - Haralson 
County, Georgia - Haralson Defenders.

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