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Category: People

Street Names of Cedartown

October 21, 2019
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| People, Streets

This is a document dated 1937 and was donated to the Historical Society by Georgia Wyatt in July of 1991. Much of the history of Cedartown might be traced through the names of its various streets. The facts stated below are based on information, by no means complete, and possibly erroneous, and suggestions, corrections or […]

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Brigadier General Kendall J. Fielder

August 4, 2019
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| Military, People

“Brigadier General Kendall “Wooch” Jordan Fielder (August 1, 1893 – April 13, 1981) was an influential World War II veteran, who settled in Hawaii, and testified before Congress in favor of statehood. At the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor, then Lieutenant Colonel Fielder was the U.S. Army G-2 Chief of Intelligence and Security, […]

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Georgia Twins are Born by Caesarean Operation

July 5, 2019
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| 1900s, Newspaper Articles, People, Virtual Tour

Mrs. C. H. Wray and Children of Cedartown, GA What was probably the first Caesarean operation, bringing twins into the world, in the history of surgery, was performed in Atlanta on January 6, 1909, by Dr. W. B. Lingo, at the Hospital Medical college. This fact was brought out yesterday as the result of a […]

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Henry Witcher, Cedartown’s Wooden Toy Artist

May 31, 2019
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| 1900s, People, Virtual Tour

Rome-News Tribune, 1983 “Like many other good men, Henry Witcher first got his motivation from a woman and a rolling pin. Just not in the customary manner so often associated with women and rolling pins. Only the product of that motivation–a woodcraft that perhaps could be described as “whittling and piddling”–could be any less customary…unless […]

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Dr. Seals L. Whitely

April 30, 2019
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| People, Virtual Tour

Dr. Whitely was born in Rome, GA, in 1880, the son of Charles Hiram Whitely and Mary Joseph Downer Whitely. When he was six years old, he and his family moved to Cedartown. He received a masters degree in pharmacy in 1904. Two years later, he graduated from Tulane University Medical School. In 1912, he […]

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The Many Voices of Sterling Holloway

February 5, 2019
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Whitlow Wyatt

February 5, 2019
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Whitlow was born in Kensington, Georgia in 1907. His father was a railroad engineer with the Central of GA Railway. His family moved to Cedartown during his sophomore year of high school where he played football and baseball for Cedartown High. During his senior year a scout from the Detroit Tigers came to scout Frank […]

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Lulu Hurst

January 31, 2019
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Lulu’s autobiograpy is Open Source, and can be read on Archive.org: https://archive.org/details/LuluHursttheGeorgiaWonderWritesHerAutobiography THE STRANGE POWERS OF LULU HURST Lulu Hurst (sometimes Lula) was born in 1869 near Cedartown in Polk County, Georgia. After a few years in town, the Hurst family moved to Collard Valley into a fine old plantation home dating from the 1830s. […]

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An Example of Polk’s Cemetery Preservation Resources

January 25, 2019
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| Cemeteries, Newspaper Articles, People

While browsing the archived Cedartown Standard newspapers on Georgia Historic Newspapers, I came across an article entitled Fatal Accident: Ollie Duke Killed in Rome. Mr. Ollie Duke, a Cedartown young man who has been employed for some time as a taxi driver in Rome, met with a tragic death last week. Mr. Duke was driving […]

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