FALL FLEA MARKET WAS A ROUSING SUCCESS!
Shoppers poured in by the hundreds over the weekend, snapping up everything from artwork to yo-yos at our fall Flea Market.
Thanks to our volunteers, who worked all summer to prepare our donations for sale, the Flea Market was a great success. Shoppers also brought enough canned goods and other ready-to-eat snacks to fill three buckets for Loaves & Fishes Ministry.
Our warehouse will be closed till after the holidays, but volunteers will still be collecting donations from our kind contributors. If you have items for pickup, please call: 205-516-8658.
We’ll see you again in April, when our spring Flea Market will open its doors.
DOZENS TURN OUT FOR FALL ROSE HILL RAMBLE
About 30 people took in our fall Rose Hill Ramble on Saturday, and historian Kathleen O'Neal regaled them with stories about some of the dearly departed buried there.
Most of the stories were tales of misfortune, including deaths due to accidents, wrecks or even Civil War clashes. Kathleen spent months researching the cases, delving into newspaper databases, Macon history books, obituaries and old trade publications to find heretofore untold stories across the cemetery, which opened in 1840.
Among the stops:
— A monument honoring Aeneas Armstrong, who was lost in the James River during the Civil War when a river steamer ran into his boat. Armstrong's body was never found, so a cenotaph was erected at Rose Hill in his memory. (We learned that a cenotaph is a monument to someone buried elsewhere or whose body was never recovered.)
— The burial site of Leo Gifford Murray, who died in a train wreck (see photo) in 1901. Heavy rain turned what was usually a stream into a torrent, and part of a railroad bridge was swept away. Murray, who was working as a mail clerk, was in the back of the train.
— Lt. William George Lagsh of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., was a member of the Army’s heavy field artillery branch. His truck overturned as it was leaving Camp Wheeler, an Army base near Macon, and he died from his injuries.
We had a great time on a beautiful day. We’ll see you again soon at the cemetery.
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