Myrtle Hill Cemetery - Notable Burials

Notable Burials

• Stockton Axson, Secretary of the American Red Cross in World War I.
• Dr. Robert M. Battey, who performed the first bilateral oophorectomy as known as Battey's Operation.
• Nathan Henry Bass, Sr., Civil War Confederate Congressman.
• Thomas and Frances Rhea Berry, Martha Berry's parents.
• Confederate Cemetery, 377 Floyd County soldiers lost their lives in American Civil War.
• Helen Bones, Woodrow Wilson's cousin and Edith Wilson's White House secretary.
• Richard Vonalbade Gammon, the University of Georgia football player.
• Rosalind Gammon, Gammon's mother who saved Georgia's football.
• Private Charles W. Graves, "Known Soldier".
• Dr. Robert Maxwell Harbin, one of Harbin Hospital (later Clinic in 1948) founders.
• Dr. William Pickens Harbin, one of Harbin Hospital (later Clinic in 1948) founders.
• Colonel Zachariah B. Hargove, one of Rome founders.
• Henderson Lovelace Lanham, US Congressman.
• Homer V. M. Miller, 1886 U.S. Senate, first Democrat from Georgia after Civil War.
• Colonel Daniel R. Mitchell, one of the founders of Rome.
• John W. Maddox, Civil War Veteran US Congressman.
• Julia Omberg, first Dr. Battey's oophorectomy patient.
• Colonel Cunningham M. Pennington, who designed the cemetery.
• Daniel S. Printup, who helped select the site of the cemetery.
• Colonel Alfred Shorter, Shorter University's namesake.
• John H. Underwood, a United States Representative, superior court judge.
• Ellen Axson Wilson, first wife of President Woodrow Wilson.
• Augustus Romaldus Wright, who served in the U.S. Congress with Abraham Lincoln.