Sunset Memorial Gardens Cemetery Sumter County Georgia PDF Download

Immediately after the Civil War, white women across the South organized Ladies' Memorial Associations (LMAs) to retrieve and rebury the remains of Confederate soldiers scattered throughout the region. The Ladies' Memorial Association successfully sought to have one hundred twenty-nine Confederate soldiers' graves relocated from the Andersonville prison site to Oak Grove Cemetery in Americus, Sumter County, Georgia in 1880. The Americus Chapter, organized and chartered in 1897, and the Ladies' Memorial Association erected a monument to the confederate dead of Sumter County in 1898 or 1899. The Sumter County Garden Club created a Memorial Mile honoring Sumter County's World War I veterans. Later the Sumter County Federation of Garden Clubs made plans to replace the Memorial Mile with a commemorative marker honoring Sumter County veterans previously memorialized as well as those of World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War.