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Macon County, Georgia

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  • Robert Eugene Duckworth, Sr. (1919 - 2012)
    Robert Eugene Duckworth Sr., 92, of Roanoke, the last surviving partner of the original Adams Construction Company, died Saturday, February 25, 2012. He was preceded in death by his parents, Oscar and ...
  • Pvt. Harvey I. Earl (1840 - 1864)
    Fought in the American Civil War - a private of Company H, 154 Regiment, New York Volunteers. Enlisted August 11, 1862. Taken as prisoner of war at the Battle of Gettysburg on July 1, 1863 Died as ...
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    Frederick Eugene Lewis (1923 - 1997)
    . US Navy."Florida State Census, 1945," database with images, FamilySearch ( : 9 August 2017), Fred E Lewis, Arlington, Duval, Florida; citing line 35, State Archives, Tallahassee; FHL microfilm 2,425,...
  • William Thomas Watson (1853 - 1934)
  • John Calvin Irwin, (USA) (1841 - 1864)
    GEDCOM Source ===@R400064940@ Ancestry Family Trees Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Ancestry Family Tree Reference: Fi...

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Macon County was created in 1837. The 91st county, it was named for the then-recently-deceased General Nathaniel Macon of North Carolina, who served in the U.S. Congress for 37 years and ran for U.S. vice president. The city of Macon, Georgia was also named for him, but the city of Macon, Georgia, is the seat of Bibb County, a different county.

During the American Civil War, 13,000 Union soldiers who were prisoners of war died at the Confederate camp in Andersonville, Georgia from starvation and disease. In the late period of the war, Georgia also had difficulty supplying its own troops and people with food. Throughout the Civil War, more men on both sides died of disease than of their wounds. Commandants of the camp were prosecuted after the war for poor treatment of prisoners. The Andersonville National Cemetery, established for the many Union dead, is at the southwestern tip of the county.

The county has an active Mennonite community.

Adjacent Counties

Communities

  • Ideal
  • Marshallville
  • Montezuma
  • Oglethorpe (County Seat)

Links

Wikipedia

Nat'l Reg. of Hist. Places

Andersonville National Historic Site

https://www.tbimacon.org/history