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American Legion Post 105 honors its dead

The Alabama Symphony Orchestra will bring a concert of favorite Monday is Memorial Day. It is the day we honor those men and women that died in service to our country defending our freedoms. All flags should be flown at half-staff that morning until noon as a show of respect.

The American Legion Fayette County Post 105 will conduct a Memorial Day Ceremony at 10 a.m. in the Fayetteville City Cemetery adjacent to the Board of Education on Ga. Highway 54 east. Also helping to host the ceremony are the Sons of the American Revolution, Marquis de Lafayette Chapter of the Georgia Society and Peachtree City Boy Scout Troop 309. In the event of inclement weather, the ceremony will be held at Post 105, the log cabin on Highway 85.

The American Legion was organized in 1918 and chartered by the Us Congress in March 1919. The purpose of the American Legion was to ensure the proper care and treatment of veterans returning from the battlefields of WWI, and to help the widows and children of those that died during WWI. Fayette County Post 105 was chartered September 20, 1927 making it one of the oldest posts in Georgia and it has served all of Fayette County since then. To learn more about Fayette County Post 105 and it programs, contact Commander Deana Rowe at 770-461-6518.

The Sons of the American Revolution strive to identify and appropriately mark the gravesites of American Revolutionary War veterans. Many Fayette County American Revolutionary War veterans were buried at old home sites. If you know of an unmarked grave, please contact John Lynch at the Holiday-Dorsey-Fife House Museum at 770-716-5332.

Veterans from many of the United States wars and conflicts are buried in the Fayetteville City Cemetery. Four veterans of the Creek Indian Wars of the 1830’s are the oldest known in the cemetery. Other known veterans are from the Mexican War (1), the Spanish American War (2), WWI (12) and many from WWII.