Lamar was a circuit judge in Georgia. He was the brother of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, the second President of the Republic of Texas.
His friend Judge Iverson L. Harris wrote the inscription on Lamar's tombstone. It reads:
"Sacred to the memory of Lucius Q. C. Lamar, Late Judge of the Ocmulgee Circuit. Who during a brief service of five years discharged the duties of that high office with probity, firmness, assiduity and unquestionable reputation. The devoted love of his family, the ardent attachment of personal friends, the admiration of the bar, and the universal approbation of his enlightened administration of justice attest the goodness and eminence of one arrested by a death too early in the bright and useful career in which he had been placed by his native state. Born July 15, 1797. Died July 4, 1834."
He was married to Sarah Williamson Bird in 1819.
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12 July 1834 NEWSPAPER NOTICE...Died , Friday last.. Hon. Lucius Q.C.Lamar, Judge of the Ocmulgee Circuit, shot himself in the head....In his capacity as a Judge, it once became His duty to sentence to death a Methodist minister at Milledgeville after his conviction for the murder of his wife's fifteen year-old sister. The minister's wife was the principal witness against him yet the evidence was circumstantial. Apparently Lamar developed his own doubts about the guilt of the condemned man, and later, after the minister was hanged, a man in Mississippi confessed to the deed from the gallows. In a fit of melancholia, Lamar came into his house, quietly kissed his Wife and children, then walked into the garden and shot himself. This was on 4 July 1834, when he was 37 years old.
Contributor: STEVE BEATY (Savannah Phantom)
His friend Judge Iverson L. Harris wrote the inscription on Lamar's tombstone. It reads:
"Sacred to the memory of Lucius Q. C. Lamar, Late Judge of the Ocmulgee Circuit. Who during a brief service of five years discharged the duties of that high office with probity, firmness, assiduity and unquestionable reputation. The devoted love of his family, the ardent attachment of personal friends, the admiration of the bar, and the universal approbation of his enlightened administration of justice attest the goodness and eminence of one arrested by a death too early in the bright and useful career in which he had been placed by his native state. Born July 15, 1797. Died July 4, 1834."
He was married to Sarah Williamson Bird in 1819.
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12 July 1834 NEWSPAPER NOTICE...Died , Friday last.. Hon. Lucius Q.C.Lamar, Judge of the Ocmulgee Circuit, shot himself in the head....In his capacity as a Judge, it once became His duty to sentence to death a Methodist minister at Milledgeville after his conviction for the murder of his wife's fifteen year-old sister. The minister's wife was the principal witness against him yet the evidence was circumstantial. Apparently Lamar developed his own doubts about the guilt of the condemned man, and later, after the minister was hanged, a man in Mississippi confessed to the deed from the gallows. In a fit of melancholia, Lamar came into his house, quietly kissed his Wife and children, then walked into the garden and shot himself. This was on 4 July 1834, when he was 37 years old.
Contributor: STEVE BEATY (Savannah Phantom)
Lamar was a circuit judge in Georgia. He was the brother of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, the second President of the Republic of Texas.
His friend Judge Iverson L. Harris wrote the inscription on Lamar's tombstone. It reads:
"Sacred to the memory of Lucius Q. C. Lamar, Late Judge of the Ocmulgee Circuit. Who during a brief service of five years discharged the duties of that high office with probity, firmness, assiduity and unquestionable reputation. The devoted love of his family, the ardent attachment of personal friends, the admiration of the bar, and the universal approbation of his enlightened administration of justice attest the goodness and eminence of one arrested by a death too early in the bright and useful career in which he had been placed by his native state. Born July 15, 1797. Died July 4, 1834."
He was married to Sarah Williamson Bird in 1819.
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12 July 1834 NEWSPAPER NOTICE...Died , Friday last.. Hon. Lucius Q.C.Lamar, Judge of the Ocmulgee Circuit, shot himself in the head....In his capacity as a Judge, it once became His duty to sentence to death a Methodist minister at Milledgeville after his conviction for the murder of his wife's fifteen year-old sister. The minister's wife was the principal witness against him yet the evidence was circumstantial. Apparently Lamar developed his own doubts about the guilt of the condemned man, and later, after the minister was hanged, a man in Mississippi confessed to the deed from the gallows. In a fit of melancholia, Lamar came into his house, quietly kissed his Wife and children, then walked into the garden and shot himself. This was on 4 July 1834, when he was 37 years old.
Contributor: STEVE BEATY (Savannah Phantom)
His friend Judge Iverson L. Harris wrote the inscription on Lamar's tombstone. It reads:
"Sacred to the memory of Lucius Q. C. Lamar, Late Judge of the Ocmulgee Circuit. Who during a brief service of five years discharged the duties of that high office with probity, firmness, assiduity and unquestionable reputation. The devoted love of his family, the ardent attachment of personal friends, the admiration of the bar, and the universal approbation of his enlightened administration of justice attest the goodness and eminence of one arrested by a death too early in the bright and useful career in which he had been placed by his native state. Born July 15, 1797. Died July 4, 1834."
He was married to Sarah Williamson Bird in 1819.
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12 July 1834 NEWSPAPER NOTICE...Died , Friday last.. Hon. Lucius Q.C.Lamar, Judge of the Ocmulgee Circuit, shot himself in the head....In his capacity as a Judge, it once became His duty to sentence to death a Methodist minister at Milledgeville after his conviction for the murder of his wife's fifteen year-old sister. The minister's wife was the principal witness against him yet the evidence was circumstantial. Apparently Lamar developed his own doubts about the guilt of the condemned man, and later, after the minister was hanged, a man in Mississippi confessed to the deed from the gallows. In a fit of melancholia, Lamar came into his house, quietly kissed his Wife and children, then walked into the garden and shot himself. This was on 4 July 1834, when he was 37 years old.
Contributor: STEVE BEATY (Savannah Phantom)
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