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• Chinn, Thomas Withers   b. November 20, 1791  d. May 22, 1852
  US Congressman. Elected to represent Louisiana's 2nd District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1839 to 1841. There is a cenotaph for him at Magnolia Cemetery, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
  Magnolia Cemetery, Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, USA
  Plot: Sec. 2
   
• Lytle, Andrew David   b. 1834  d. 1917
  Local photographer who chronicled the Union occupation of Baton Rouge during the Civil War. (Bio by: Joel Manuel)
  Magnolia Cemetery, Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, USA
   
• Perkins, Mary Bird   b. February 28, 1927  d. June 25, 1966
  Namesake of Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Centers. (Bio by: Joel Manuel)
  Magnolia Cemetery, Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, USA
   
• Robertson, Edward White    b. 1823  d. 1887
  US Congressman. Elected to represent Louisiana's 6th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1877 to 1883, and 1887. Also served as a Member of the Louisiana State Senate.
  Magnolia Cemetery, Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, USA
   
• Robertson, Samuel Matthews    b. 1852  d. 1911
  US Congressman. Elected to represent Louisiana's 6th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1887 to 1907. (Bio by: K)
  Magnolia Cemetery, Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, USA
   
• Saxon, Lyle    b. 1891  d. 1946
  Author of "Gumbo Ya-Ya" and other books about Louisiana. (Bio by: Joel Manuel)
  Magnolia Cemetery, Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, USA
   
• Spencer, William Brainerd    b. 1835  d. 1882
  US Congressman. Elected to represent Louisiana's 5th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1876 to 1877. (Bio by: K)
  Magnolia Cemetery, Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, USA
   
• Waddill, Joanna
  Folk Figure. Known at the "Florence Nightingale of the Confederacy," she was only 22 when the Civil War broke out. When the Yankee fleet captured Natchez on their way up to Vicksburg, she hid a Confederate flag under her petticoat to prevent its capture and volunteered herself for Confederate hospital service. She met and married George Waddill while they both tended sick and dying Mississippi rebels, and the couple moved back to George's hometown, Baton Rouge, where they continued their...[Read More] (Bio by: Helen L. Smith Hoke)
  Magnolia Cemetery, Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, USA
   

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