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Troup Cemetery, also known as the Old Belleville Cemetery, holds the graves of Captain Troup, a British naval officer, and his wife Catherine McIntosh Troup. They were the parents of George M. Troup, who served as governor of Georgia and later as a United States senator, and who spent his boyhood on this plantation. A Georgia Historical Society marker records that several other graves lie within the walled enclosure, their marble inscriptions already worn away by the mid-1800s.
Troup Cemetery is a cemetery in Townsend, Mcintosh County. It is one of 33 cemeteries documented in Mcintosh County, among 89 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 31.5347, -81.3639 near Townsend. The nearest cataloged historic site is Old Belleville or Troup Cemetery (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Belleville Cemetery, Hopkins Cemetery, and Mallow Plantation.
This record is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
Troup Cemetery, also known as the Old Belleville Cemetery, holds the graves of Captain Troup, a British naval officer, and his wife Catherine McIntosh Troup. They were the parents of George M. Troup, who served as governor of Georgia and later as a United States senator, and who spent his boyhood on this plantation. A Georgia Historical Society marker records that several other graves lie within the walled enclosure, their marble inscriptions already worn away by the mid-1800s.
Sources: findagrave.com
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