Weekend visitors to Augusta's Summerville Cemetery had the opportunity to "meet" some of the people buried there as re-enactors told their stories during the Walk With the Spirits tour.

"Why, Joe played golf with Taft at the Augusta Country Club," said Sallie Metzel, who portrayed Clarinda Huntington Pendleton Lamar, the wife of Joseph R. Lamar.

That golf game with President William Howard Taft might have played into Lamar's 1910 appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Mrs. Lamar was an accomplished woman.

"I was the national president of the Colonial Dames of America," she said.

After her husband's death, Mrs. Lamar continued her work with the organization, serving as its president until 1927. She served on a women's national defense committee and helped raise $50,000 for the construction of the hospital ships the Mercy and the Comfort.

Others buried in the cemetery met President Taft during his Augusta visits.

Katherine Jane Hubbell Cumming, played by Elizabeth Huggins, had the president to her home one evening.

As the president came down her driveway, the electric lights went out, she said.

She simply turned on the old gas ones.

Mrs. Cumming wrote a book, A Northern Daughter and a Southern Wife, about her life during the Civil War.

One of the figures on the tour isn't buried in the cemetery.

Harriet Montgomery, played by Cherianne Duncan, was a former slave and could not be buried in the cemetery because of her race. She stayed with the Montgomery family even after she was emancipated.

She helped raise the seven Montgomery children. "Master Gardner was my favorite," she said.

James Gardner Montgomery kept two portraits on his dresser - one of his mother and the other of Ms. Montgomery.

Her grave is across the wall of the cemetery in the Rock of Ages Christian Methodist Episcopal Church yard.

About 300 people attended the two days of tours, according to Julia Jackson of Historic Augusta, which cooperated with the Watson-Brown Foundation to put the tours together.

"It's been a great success," said Ms. Jackson.

All of the historical figures were researched and scripts written. Events at other historical cemeteries may be planned in the future.

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