General Henry Mitchell, Revolutionary Soldier

• Born February 8, 1761, Sussex County, Virginia
• Died May 17, 1839, Hancock County, Georgia
• Buried in Sparta Cemetery, Hancock County, Georgia

His tombstone is inscribed:

"To the memory of General Henry Mitchell a native of Sussex County, Virginia, who departed this life on the 17th of May, 1839, in the seventy-ninth year of his age. This stone is placed by his bereaved consort. Animated by the same love of liberty which inspired the tongue of Henry and the sword of Washington, he cheerfully exposed himself to the hazards of war, and pouring out his blood like water at Buford's defeat where he was cloven down by a British sabre while gallantly bearing the standard of his country. Within a few years of the establishment of American Independance, he became a citizen of Georgia; and in the course of a long life filled various offices of trust and dignity, with honor to himself and usefullness to the state. In his character and deportment, he united the simplicity of Republican manners with the sterness of Republican principles. Embalmed in the memory of noble deeds, his name will live when this frail monument shall crumble into dust."