This burial ground grew from the 1837 grave of physician-legislator Dr. Hope Hull Tigner. By local lore his friend Rev. Philemon Ogletree, asked to look after the widow, married her himself, and both lie here among generations of Tigner and Ogletree kin.
Union Cemetery (Historical Marker)
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Union Cemetery is a historical marker in Stovall, Meriwether County. It is one of 17 historical markers documented in Meriwether County, among 132 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 32.9500, -84.8025 near Stovall. The nearest cataloged historic site is Union Cemetery (cemetery), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Greer and Robertson Cemetery, Arbor Chapel Cemetery, and Woods Cemetery.
This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
“Union Cemetery” names 2 distinct records in Meriwether County. This page is the historical marker in Stovall. The others:
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