Nancy Alston

1878

Was the trusted nurse and former slave of Dr. Tomlinson Fort’s family. The family thought so highly of her that she was given Dr. Fort’s old office building to live in upon the division of his estate.

Fort was an influential and respected physician, and a leading citizen of Milledgeville. In 1829, he helped found the Medical Academy in Augusta, known after 1833 as the Medical College of Georgia. Similarly, he helped establish the State Lunatic Asylum, completed in 1842, and was its chief visiting physician.

As you look out over Nancy Alston's grave, note that there are about the same number of African Americans buried in this area of the cemetery as whites in the rest of the cemetery.

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