THE PHILIP W. HEMPHILL GRAVEYARD.
Submitted by Joy Fisher
This mortal sanctuary reposes in a grove of oaks and hickories on the top of
the hill between DeSoto (Mobley) Park lake and the street car line, about 100
yards west of the old home of Philip Walker Hemphill, and contains the sacred
dust of the following:
Elizabeth Cunningham Hemphill, first wife of Philip W. Hemphill, died Apr. 9,
1844; aged 34 years and 24 days.
Two daughters,
Margaret Jane Hemphill, who died
July 3, 1837; aged 3 years, 3 months, 14 days,
Nancy whose slab contains the
date 1841 but is otherwise indistinct.
Mrs. Hemphill's slab states that she was
for sixteen years a member of the Presbyterian church.
James M. Cunningham, born
Jan. 26, 1821, died Oct. 22, 1851.
These graves are boxed over, with flat slabs
on top.
Fifteen feet northwest of the four are headstone and footstone marking
the grave of a daughter of Samuel and Mary G. Mobley; time and weather have
erased the first name and the dates of birth and death.
Additional Comments:
Excerpted from:
A HISTORY OF ROME AND FLOYD COUNTY
STATE OF GEORGIA — UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
INCLUDING NUMEROUS INCIDENTS OF MORE THAN LOCAL INTEREST
1540 — 1922
VOLUME I.
By GEORGE MAGRUDER BATTEY, JR.
AUTHOR OF "70,000 MILES ON A SUBMARINE DESTROYER"
ATLANTA, GA.
The Webb and Vary Company
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