Does anyone know more about Simri Rose. I saw that he married Ann Blount of Blountville... BUT I also read: Thomas Bog SLADE, Baptist minister, and head of the Clinton Female Seminary and later teacher at Wesleyan married Miss Ann BLOUNT of Blountsville. So maybe there were TWO Ann Blounts --- or two marriages/ I'd like to find out more about Rose....and I'm sure there must be something about his burial on-line somewhere....in Rose Hill -- maybe a monument? http://www.rootsweb.com/~gajones/hawkins.htm#people This quote comes from Dianne Wilcox who has shared so much information about Ft. Hawkins... Rose, Simri - Publisher of The Georgia Messenger, moved publication from Fort Hawkins to Macon in 1823. Wilcox says that the first name of The Georgia Messenger was The Bulldog, and that a later version is today called The Macon Telegraph. Rose's portrait now hangs in The Macon Telegraph's offices. Rose was instrumental in the planning of The City of Macon and planned what is now "The Oldest Landscaped Cemetery in the United States (Rose Hill) in 1840 in return for his chosen burial plot. Virginia Crilley