Visiting Oakland Cemetery seems to be always interesting and
a happenings I think in October more people come which
brings out a parade of period costumes and music.
Margaret Mitchell is buried at Oakland.
So is Franklin Garrett.
Franklin was the official historian of Atlanta. Once while doing genealogy research I had a question about
troop movement of one of my relatives involved in the Battle of Atlanta during
the Civil War in 1864. I called the
Atlanta Historical Society and asked my question to the lady that answered the phone.
She connected me to “somebody who will know”, Franklin Garrett. I asked him my question and he said to hold,
he would look it up. A few minutes later
he came back and told me what I needed to know, but the answer created another
question, which I immediately asked.
Franklin, again, said hold on, he would go look up. Which he did and returned a few minutes later,
breathing a little louder, and told me the answer, which triggered another
question. When I asked him that
question, he asked could I please combine my questions, he was having to climb
two flights of stairs each time.
The Sleeping Lion guards the Confederate Soldier section of
the Oakland.
See the white statue?
Did you see him move? I bet if
you tickled him under his arms he would giggle.
Yep, he’s alive!
The below picture is one I took aiming the lens inside a crypt to get the stained glass. Did I also get an apparition doing cart-wheels?
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