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Macon continued to perform until shortly before his death on March 22, 1952, at Rutherford County Hospital in Murfreesboro. He was buried at Coleman Cemetery near Murfreesboro. [20] His funeral was visited by more than five thousand people and his pallbearers were George D. Hay, Kirk McGee, Roy Acuff, and Bill Monroe. [21]
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Hamp Swain, Jr. (December 3, 1929 – May 9, 2018), [1] nicknamed "King Bee" after the Slim Harpo song "I'm a King Bee," was an American radio disc jockey, popular on WIBB AM 1280 in Macon, Georgia, starting in 1957. In 1954, he became the city's first black DJ when he began working for WBML AM 1350. [2]
Rose Hill Cemetery is a 50-acre cemetery located on the banks of the Ocmulgee River in Macon, Georgia, United States, that opened in 1840. [3] [4] Simri Rose, a horticulturist and designer of the cemetery, was instrumental in the planning of the city of Macon and planned Rose Hill Cemetery in return for being able to choose his own burial plot. [5]
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Leroy Wiley Gresham (November 11, 1847 – June 18, 1865) was born in Macon, Georgia, and left behind one of the most remarkable and important diaries ever published. [1] The seven journals, edited and annotated by Janet E. Croon, were published June 1, 2018 by Savas Beatie under the title The War Outside My Window: The Civil War Journals of ...
The Mayor of Macon-Bibb County is the highest elected official in the consolidated city-county government of Macon and Bibb County, Georgia. The county was established in 1822, while the city was incorporated in 1823. Heads of the city were known as "intendents" prior to 1833. The city and county governments were consolidated in 2014.