A history of Rome and Floyd County, State of Georgia, United States of America; including numerous incidents of more than local interest, 1540-1922 . 25, 1830, at Darien, Ga.; diedJuly 16, 1885 Wilmington, N. C. The anchor of his soul was faith in Christ. Mary A. Jones, wife of B. F. Jones; died Dec. 13, 1862. For so He givethhis beloved sleep. Rev. Jas. F. Swanson; born Jan. 27, 1825; died Oct. 28, Col. Armistead Richardson Harper, 1 Ga. cavalry, C. S. A.; born , 1835; died Oct. 28, 1863, of wounds received in battle. Roena Harper; born Nov. 17, 1870; died Sept. 27, 1894. Mary J
A history of Rome and Floyd County, State of Georgia, United States of America; including numerous incidents of more than local interest, 1540-1922 . 25, 1830, at Darien, Ga.; diedJuly 16, 1885 Wilmington, N. C. The anchor of his soul was faith in Christ. Mary A. Jones, wife of B. F. Jones; died Dec. 13, 1862. For so He givethhis beloved sleep. Rev. Jas. F. Swanson; born Jan. 27, 1825; died Oct. 28, Col. Armistead Richardson Harper, 1 Ga. cavalry, C. S. A.; born , 1835; died Oct. 28, 1863, of wounds received in battle. Roena Harper; born Nov. 17, 1870; died Sept. 27, 1894. Mary J. A. Selkirk, relict of James McGlashan, of Edinburgh, Scotland;died Dec. 31, 1870, aged 79. Alexander McDonald; born Apr. 13, 1797, in Mcintosh County, Ga.; diedat Rome, Oct. 6, 1879, aged 82; Martha Morton, wife of J. ; bornMay 5, 1840, in Athens, Ga.; died at Rome Apr. 1, 1880, aged 40. J. R. Stevens; born March 22, 1822; died Feb. 11, 1871. Thos. McCulloch, a native of Scotland, late secretary of the Cornwall (Ala.) Myrtle Hill Cemetery Interments 621 MAP OF FLOYD COUNTY f/H SCALE 9 MILES TO ONE INCH /; ii\ > I-Z o OherHitace. K-TLT OCAVC SPCS., POUK ecu NTY Langdon Bowie; born Aug. 27, 1806; died July 27, Works; died July 22, 1880; aged 69. Elizabeth Yarborough, wife of Wm. Davis; born Feb. 27, 1795; died July30, 1869. America Addaline, wife of Daniel Walker; died Jan. 24, 1871, at Robinson; born Jan. 8, 1808; died Feb. 3, 1868; aged E. Wright, only daughter of G. H. and A. Gardner; born Dec. 14,1850; died Sept. 13, 1878. On the topmost peak of Myrtle Hill Cemetery, looking to the west, is theheroic marble monument to the heroes of the Confdracy. On a large pedestalstands a Confederate soldier at parade rest, facing the west. Inscriptions say: This monument is the testimony of the present to the future that these werethey who kept the faith given them by the fathers. Be it known by this token thatthese men were true to the traditions
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