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Memory Hill Cemetery, Dr. Benjamin Judson Simmons
Photographer: Mike Stroud
Taken: May 10, 2011
Caption: Memory Hill Cemetery, Dr. Benjamin Judson Simmons
Additional Description: (October 16,1870-January 7, 1910) was the first black physician in Milledgeville. He graduated from Meharry Medical College in 1897. He was very successful and recognized as a fine diagnostician. He died of an unintentionally selfinflicted gunshot wound.(Memory Hill Cemetery tour)
Submitted: May 20, 2011, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p153857
File Size: 0.294 Megabytes

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