Linwood Cemetery

Linwood Cemetery, part of the 1828 plan of Columbus, contains the graves of pioneer citizens and their descendents as well as the tombs of some 200 Confederate soldiers. Those buried there include Anna Caroline Benning (1853-1935), who formed the “Columbus Committee” of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Georgia; General Henry L. Benning (1814-1875), a Confederate leader for whom the military post was named; industrialist and philanthropist W.C. Bradley (1863-1947); Dr. Edwin DeGraffenried (1798-1871), one of the city’s original five commissioners; Noble Leslie DeVotie (1838-1861), a founder of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity; Helen Augusta Howard (1865-1934), founder of the Georgia Woman Suffrage Association; Ulysses Lewis (1799-1856), the city’s first intendant and a kinsman of George Washington; pharmacist John S. Pemberton (1831-1888), originator of the formula for Coca-Cola; the Reverend Dr. Lovick Pierce (1785-1879), the “Nestor of Southern Methodism”; Philip T. Shutze (1890-1982), a 20th century neo-classical architect; Francis J. Springer (1834-1882), founder of the Springer Opera House; and physician-poet Francis O. Ticknor (1822-1874). Named for Ernest Linwood (1856), a novel by Caroline Lee Hentz, the cemetery was entered on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

Columbus, Georgia · United States