- Collection:
- Atlanta History Photograph Collection
- Title:
- Martha Wilson Lumpkin Compton
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Kenan Research Center
- Date of Original:
- 1970
- Subject:
- Graves--Georgia--Atlanta
Cemeteries--Georgia--Atlanta
Men--1970-1980
Clothing & dress--1970-1980
Trees--Georgia--Atlanta - People:
- Compton, Martha Lumpkin, 1827-1917
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- View of Atlanta resident William S. Irvine standing at the grave of Martha Wilson Lumpkin Compton in Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta, Georgia.
tombstones; headstones; governor's daughter;
Martha Lumpkin Compton (1827-1917) was born in Athens, Georgia, and was the youngest daughter of Governor Wilson Lumpkin and Annis Hopson Lumpkin. The site of Atlanta was named Marthasville in her honor from 1843-1845. She married Thomas M. Compton in 1878. She is buried in Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta, Georgia, in a plot donated by the city in 1907. - Local Identifier:
- VIS 170.3914.001
ahc1703914001.jpg - Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/athpc/id/2311
- Additional Rights Information:
- This material is protected by copyright law. (Title 17, U.S Code) Permission ofr use must be cleared through The Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center. Licensing agreement may be required.
- Extent:
- 3 x 5 in.
- Original Collection:
- Atlanta History Photograph Collection
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
-
