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| | Lamar Bios |
 | | Columbus, Ga., 6 April 1906, interred Memory Hill Cemetery, Milledgeville; son of Congressman Absalom Harris Chappell and Loretta Lamar C. of Milledgeville; married Henrietta Kincaid, an organizing Regent of the Daughter of the American Revolution; first president of Georgia Normal and Industrial College, now Georgia College and State University. |
 | | Judge Lamar presided over the murder trial of a local Methodist preacher who was charged with death of his wife's fifteen year old sister. |
 | | Several years later, in Mississippi, another condemned murderer confessed to the crime, and Judge Lamar, despondent that he had executed an innocent man, took his own life in his Milledgeville garden. |
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