Title:
New Echota Cemetery plaque, Georgia
Object ID:
2004.3.119
Object Name:
Print, Photographic
Collection:
Russellville Photograph Collection
VE Exhibit Label 1:
Front: Black and white photo of a plaque for the New Echota Cemetery.
Printed description on sign:
"Georgia, 1776"
"New Echota Cemetery"
"On the hilltop, 100 yards to the north, is the cemetery for the village of the Echota. The marked graves are those of Pathkiller, Principle Chief of the Cherokee Nation until his death in 1827 and a colonel in Morgan's regiment in the War of 1812, and Harriet Gold Boudinot, born in Connecticut in 1805, wife of Elias Boudinot, editor of the Cherokee Phoenix. One of the unmarked graves is that if Jerusha Worrester, infant daughter of Samuel and Ann Worrester, the mission family at New Echota."
"Georgia Historical Commission"
Printed description on sign:
"Georgia, 1776"
"New Echota Cemetery"
"On the hilltop, 100 yards to the north, is the cemetery for the village of the Echota. The marked graves are those of Pathkiller, Principle Chief of the Cherokee Nation until his death in 1827 and a colonel in Morgan's regiment in the War of 1812, and Harriet Gold Boudinot, born in Connecticut in 1805, wife of Elias Boudinot, editor of the Cherokee Phoenix. One of the unmarked graves is that if Jerusha Worrester, infant daughter of Samuel and Ann Worrester, the mission family at New Echota."
"Georgia Historical Commission"
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New Echota Cemetery plaque, Georgia
New Echota Cemetery plaque, Georgia (back)
New Echota Cemetery plaque, Georgia
New Echota Cemetery plaque, Georgia (back)