grave marker commemorating one of Fayette

County's earliest landowners was set in place

Wednesday behind a cluster of shaded Peachtree

City homes off Golfview Drive.

Janet

Mack, president of the Fayette County Historical

Society, and Eddy Lanham, an active society

member whose hobby is securing and setting

headstones on soldier's graves from the

Revolutionary, Civil, 1812 and Indian Wars, led

the procession of onlookers through the

underbrush to the above-ground crypt which bore

the remains of George Washington Ware, who served

as a Sgt. Major in the Georgia Mounted

Volunteers, 5th Battalion, during the Florida

Indian Wars of 1836.

Ware

has been dead for 151 years and his grave site is

surrounded by almost a dozen stones which mark

the final resting places for likely family

members or workers associated with him.

According

to Mack, who is an assistant professor of history

at Georgia Military College in Union City, Ware

paid $300 on Nov. 4, 1823 for the 202-plus acres

where he is laid to rest and what today makes up

Golf View, Rolling Green and a portion of

Pinegate subdivisions.

Ware

was a surveyor by trade and after acquiring

additional landholdings in what is now Peachtree

City, he established a grist mill known as

Tinsley's Mill.