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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XJK_brooks-county-veterans-monument-a-war-memorial_Quitman-GA.html
Brooks County Veterans
They All Gave
Some Gave All
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XJJ_our-confederate-dead-a-war-memorial_Quitman-GA.html
Our Confederate Dead
Erected
By The Ladies
Memorial Association
1878
( back )
Brothers
Rest In Peace.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XJI_quitman-veterans-memorial-a-war-memorial_Quitman-GA.html
To Those Who Gave Much. To Those Who Gave All
Quitman and Brooks County Dedicates This Memorial
November 11, 1921
Erected by Quitman Chapter
United Daughters of The Confederacy
1st Lt. Wilbur Oglesby
Privates
Arthur Culpepper · …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMR0L_civil-war-slave-conspiracy_Quitman-GA.html
In August 1864, during the American Civil War, four men were executed in Brooks County, Georgia, for conspiring to plot a slave insurrection. The conspirators - led by a local white man, John Vickery, and three slaves named Nelson, George, and Sam…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHX6_west-end-cemetery_Quitman-GA.html
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 o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHX5_brooks-county_Quitman-GA.html
This county created by Act of the Legislature Dec. 11, 1858, is named for Preston Smith Brooks, zealous defender of States Rights. Born in S.C. Aug. 6, 1819, Brooks served in the Mexican War & in Congress. He died June 27, 1857. The first County O…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9KP_columbia-primitive-baptist-church_Quitman-GA.html
Columbia Primitive Baptist Church was formally constituted on the first Sunday in October, 1833, after serving as an arm of Bethany Church more than a year. Moses Dees was the first delegate from Columbia to the annual meeting of the mother church…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6JV_liberty-baptist-church_Quitman-GA.html
Between 1837 and 1841 the Baptists in this section were stirred on Missions, Sunday Schools and ministerial support. In 1841 the Ocklochnee anti-Missionary Baptist Assn. passed a ruling to dismiss members believing in the "new fangled institutions…