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Maj George Wash. “Oconostota” Morgan

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Maj George Wash. “Oconostota” Morgan

Birth
Calhoun, McMinn County, Tennessee, USA
Death
27 Oct 1862 (aged 44)
Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, USA
Burial
Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, USA Add to Map
Plot
Section C - 17
Memorial ID
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Section C, Lot 26, grave 1.

FAG Contributor Janice Patterson #47091572 said the following:

According to the book "One of Morgan's Men: Memoirs of Lieutenant John M. Porter" (2011), George Washington Morgan lived 11 days after he was wounded in battle at Ashland, the Henry Clay mansion, and "was buried in Lexington Cemetery in the Morgan plot."
One unsourced site reported that Col. Gideon Morgan and his son Maj. George Washington Morgan (Wash Morgan) were both called "Aganstata" and/or "Oconostata" as they were descendants of Chief of the Cherokees Oconostota.
Section C, Lot 26, grave 1.

FAG Contributor Janice Patterson #47091572 said the following:

According to the book "One of Morgan's Men: Memoirs of Lieutenant John M. Porter" (2011), George Washington Morgan lived 11 days after he was wounded in battle at Ashland, the Henry Clay mansion, and "was buried in Lexington Cemetery in the Morgan plot."
One unsourced site reported that Col. Gideon Morgan and his son Maj. George Washington Morgan (Wash Morgan) were both called "Aganstata" and/or "Oconostata" as they were descendants of Chief of the Cherokees Oconostota.

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