Col. John Basil Lamar
Among several notable people buried in Rose Hill Cemetery is Col. John Basil Lamar who died on September 15, 1862. Col. Lamar, born in Milledgeville on November 5, 1812, attended UGA in 1827, but moved to Macon in 1830. In 1837 and 1838, Lamar served in the Georgia House of Representatives and, then, in 1842, he continued on to serve Georgia in the US House of Representatives during the 28th Congress. He resigned from office in 1843 and returned to life in Georgia, where he became master of a great cotton planting empire that included 14 counties and the state of Florida. He served on the UGA Board of Trustees from 1855 until 1858 and then, in 1861, served at the state convention that passed the Ordinance of Secession. Lamar was also known as a great writer of the South. Lamar served during the Civil War as an aide to Confederate General Howell Cobb, his brother-in-law. He was wounded during Battle of Crampton's Gap in Maryland and died the next day. He was originally buried in Charles Town, Virginia and then, later, reinterred in Rose Hill.
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