Also I did not include kin-folks except for one time. If I included my kin-folks, that would be a blog by itself.
Be sure and click on each picture to see something you might not have otherwise noticed.
Marietta City Cemetery
Al Bishop, manager of Larry Bell Park
Van Carol Calloway. Friend. Van was a diabetic. He was to have a leg amputated. The wrong leg was removed and Van died.
Sanford Stadium in Athens, Ga was named after him
My 5th grade teacher. Van Callaway (above) pushed me against the railing of a fire escape at school and cracked my forehead opened. Miss Shouse held my head up and pressed ice against the cut so I would not bleed out. And the only thing I could think of is that women sure have soft thighs!
Clay Family
Senator Clay (statue in Glover Park)
Manget Plot Interesting resumme on marker
Leave 'Em Laughing
Owned the first pharmacy and his house is still stading
Confederate Cemetery
Drummer Bill York is the only ex-slave buried in the Confederate Cemetery
St James Episcopal Church
One of the Otis Brumby line.
Mayor and Judge
This gal and her babies have endured a lot of pranks through the years. They are seated across the street from a school. It was Marietta High School, now it is Marietta Middle School
Jon Benet Ramsey
Patsy Ramsey, mother of Jon Benet Ramsey
aka Cobb County and Marietta's own Boss Hog
George Camp. I think he was over Roswell Mills and lived in the Tranquility Mansion
Winters, Early Marietta Settler/Pioneer
Mr & Mrs Kolb. Remember the Kolb Farm Battle on Powder Springs Road? I don't know if this is the same Kolbs or not. I see on the marker Mr. Wild Kolb died in August 1863, which was about 11 months before the Battle of Kolb's Farm.
Marietta National Cemetery
Henry Cole, donated the land for the cemetery
First cousin, once removed killed in action during the Normandy Invasion
Father of a friend (Sam) who was killed at sea by a Japanese plane on a suicide mission
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