Elizabeth Church Robb died in 1868 and was buried in a family plot at the Oconee Hill Cemetery in Athens. Though Robb died from ovarian cancer, her obituary was embellished and reprinted to bolster Lost Cause mythology. From the Willson Center Digital Humanities Lab, Death and Human History in Athens. View on source site The New Georgia Encyclopedia does not hold the copyright for this media resource and can neither grant nor deny permission to republish or reproduce the image online or in print.

Eugene Talmadge served as governor of Georgia from 1933 to 1937 and again from 1941 to 1943. His personality and actions polarized voters into Talmadge and anti-Talmadge factions in the state's one-party politics of that era. His death in 1946 touched off the unprecedented "three governors controversy." ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7qLHOq56imZWjsLqvy6innpyZlnuwvsZomKusmZi5pr%2BOoKavnaKjuqa602anqKSZqbakv46erKCdnpp6ta3Lppidn5VifnmEk2ZocmxmZLpuf5Zqb2g%3D

Members of the First Congregational Church, including the Reverend Henry Hugh Proctor (standing seventh from left), in Atlanta are pictured circa 1899. Today the church is an affiliate of the United Church of Christ, which formed in 1957. Courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division The New Georgia Encyclopedia does not hold the copyright for this media resource and can neither grant nor deny permission to republish or reproduce the image online or in print.

Frank Yerby rose to fame as a writer of popular fiction tinged with a distinctive southern flavor. He was the first African American to write a series of best-selling novels and to have a book purchased by a Hollywood studio for a film adaptation. During his prolific career, Yerby wrote thirty-three novels and sold more than fifty-five million hardback and paperback books worldwide. Frank Garvin Yerby was born in Augusta on September 5, 1916, to Wilhemenia and Rufus Yerby.

George W. Towns, a lawyer, legislator, and U.S. congressman, served as Georgia’s governor from 1847 to 1851. A Unionist and staunch opponent of nullification when he entered politics in 1829, Towns became governor two decades later as a “fire-eating” secessionist who believed that the federal government was controlled by fanatical northern abolitionists determined to ruin and subjugate the South. Education and Early Career George Washington Bonaparte Towns was born on May 4, 1801, in Wilkes County, to Margaret George Hardwick and John Towns, a veteran of the Revolutionary War (1775-83).