Summerville Cemetery

SUMMERVILLE CEMETERY. In this cemetery are buried the following eminent Georgians: JOHN MILLEDGE (1757-1818), Revolutionary officer, Congressman, Governor (1802-1806), Senator. He gave the land on which the University of Georgia is built. GEORGE WALKER CRAWFORD (1798-1872), lawyer, legislator, Congressman, Governor (1843-1847), Secretary of War under President Zachary Taylor, President of the State Secession Convention (1861).

CHARLES JONES JENKINS (1805-1883), lawyer, jurist, legislator, State Senator, Governor (1865-1868). Removed from office by Gen. Meade, he hid the State Seal, records and funds until Governor James Milton Smith was inaugurated in 1872. ALFRED CUMMING (1802-1873), Superintendent of Indian Affairs on upper Missouri, appointed by President Buchanan first Governor of Territory of Utah (1857-1861) during the "Mormon War.

" He retired from office when Georgia seceded from the Union. JOSEPH RUCKER LAMAR (1857-1916), lawyer, legislator, jurist, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (1911-1916). He compiled "The Code of the State of Georgia." THOMAS CUMMING (1765-1834), the first "intendant" (Mayor) of Augusta (1798).

He gave the land for this cemetery. 121-36 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1957