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Flowers owns two Sylvania Funeral Homes locations. He started the Sylvania location in 2004, and the Savannah location in 2009. In 1981, Flowers graduated from Herschel V. Jenkins High School. In ...
Charges. Felony murder, aggravated assault. On August 7, 2020, Julian Edward Roosevelt Lewis, an unarmed 60-year-old American carpenter, was fatally shot by Georgia State Patrol officer Jacob Gordon Thompson, on a rural road in Screven County, Georgia. Thompson attempted to stop Lewis for driving a vehicle with a broken tail light.
The county was created on December 14, 1793, and was named for General James Screven, who died fighting in Georgia during the American Revolutionary War.Some wartime accounts used the alternate spelling of "Scriven" for the general, and the county's name was often spelled that way in its early history, as reflected on 19th-century Georgia maps.
Bonaventure Cemetery. Bonaventure Cemetery is a rural cemetery located on a scenic bluff of the Wilmington River, east of Savannah, Georgia. [1] The cemetery's prominence grew when it was featured in the 1994 novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt, and in the subsequent movie, directed by Clint Eastwood, based on the book ...
Mercer House (now the Mercer Williams House Museum) is located at 429 Bull Street in Savannah, Georgia. [3] Completed in 1868, it occupies the southwestern civic block of Monterey Square. The house was the scene of the 1981 killing of Danny Hansford by the home's owner Jim Williams, a story that is retold in the 1994 John Berendt book Midnight ...
A funeral home director in Georgia said he knew something wasn't right when his business received a decapitated baby. "I just felt a sense of urgency to say, 'Hey listen, this is not right, this ...
November 13, 1966 (57 years ago)[ 3 ] The Savannah Historic District is a large urban U.S. historic district that roughly corresponds to the pre– Civil War city limits of Savannah, Georgia. The area was declared a National Historic Landmark District in 1966, [ 1 ][ 3 ] and is one of the largest urban, community-wide historic preservation ...
Christ Church Anglican (CCA) is an Anglican parish in the Thomas Square neighborhood of Savannah, Georgia. It traces its history to 1733, when Christ Church was founded as the oldest Anglican presence in Georgia. In 2006, the majority of the clergy and parishioners of Christ Church departed from the Episcopal Diocese of Georgia; in 2012, after ...