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Photographer: Mike Stroud
Taken: May 10, 2011
Caption:
Memory Hill Cemetery, Tomlinson Fort | Additional Description: (Jul 14, 1787-May 11, 1859)
This wounded War of 1812 veteran served in
the US House of Representatives (1827-1829)
and the Georgia state legislature (1818-1825).
He was a prominent physician and was instrumental
in creating the Georgia Lunatic Asylum
in 1837 and a Board of Physicians which licensed
doctors. His book, A Dissertation on
the Practice of Medicine, published in 1849,
contains some of the best-known medical
treatments of the day. Wilkes Flagg (buried
across the street at Flagg’s Chapel) (about
1801-Nov 13, 1878) was a slave who, prior to
the Civil War, bought his and his family’s freedom
from his owner, Dr. Tomlinson Fort, by
working after hours as a blacksmith. Their
freedom was kept secret, however, because of
the attitude against free blacks. After the war,
he built Flagg’s Chapel, which he also used for
instructing others in economic and social matters. (Memory Hill Cemetery tour)
Submitted: May 20, 2011, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p153932
File Size: 0.230 Megabytes
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