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Sacred to the memory of Rebecca Nixon Wife of General G. H. Nixon "Blessed are the pure in heart For they shall see God.*
General George H. Nixon Died 20 August 1824 Age 46 years
Brave, generous and just To fellow mortals kind,
He put in God his trust, and of the world resigned.
Bricks with mortar falling apart. In bricked in yard approximately 4 yards by 6 yards by about 2 1/2 feet high. Markers are recessed in wall of brick and made of white marble.
Rusty wrougjt iron coroded (sp?) fenoe with tall thin moss coated headstone embellished with hand pointing heavenward and holding rose marks the grave of Eliza Julia Seal, daughter of General George H. and Rebecca Nixon wife of Roderio Seal died April 4, 1885.
Grave near of child, Katherine Lenoir 1823 (probably oldest grave in cemetery)
Cemetery filled with live oaks - moss dr*R>ed.


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