Linwood Cemetery was established in 1828 when the son of a surveyor, Lloyd Thomas, died. Lloyd Thomas buried his son and then surveyed four acres surrounding his son's burial to be designated as a cemetery.
I highly encourage anyone who is interested to visit this wonderful historic outdoor museum. I first came in 2012 and although it took me fourteen years, I did return, something I made a promise to myself to do.
Linwood has a lot of what are called table graves. Whenever I visit cemeteries this old, I seek these out, finding them beautiful and symbolic. One of which belongs to Eaton Flewellen who was born in 1779, son of Taylor and Sarah " Sallie" Burt Flewellen.
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Linwood Cemetery teeming with human history and many notable people sleep under her sod like John Pemberton, the Pharmacist whose formula for a cough syrup became a very popular soda we call
Coca Cola. His partner William Albert Bellingrath who was born in 1868 and died in 1937 is deposed in Montgomery, Alabama.
One grave among them all though, I was determined to digitize and photograph was that of Michael Kenny. And in a testament to my incredible memory, even though I had been only one and long ago in 2012, walked right to the lot that he shares with his son in law, Patrick Adams and his grandchildren.
He and his father were stone cutters in Columbus, Georgia. A dispute with a gentleman arose over my refusal to transfer the entry I created and whether or not his son was deposed in this cemetery based on the fact that Rosemere, across the state line in Alabama, did not open for burial until four years after his death, which is where the Linwood Historic Society recorded his grave.
There is no documentation supporting the burial of Thomas Kenney in Linwood.
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