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Two unmarked graves in the Presbyterian Cemetery at Lexington contain the ashes of noted men. One of these is CARLISLE MCKINLEY, a gifted poet, without a reference to whom no anthology of Southern literature is complete. The other is the REV. JOHN NEWTON, who founded the oldest Presbyterian Church in the Synod of Georgia and whose unmarked grave at Lexington is a reproach to the great denomination for whose subsequent growth and power in Georgia he laid the foundations in pioneer days.
Town Cemetery, Greensboro
In the center of the beautiful cemetery at Greens- boro, there is a horizontal tablet of marble, on which the following epitaph is inscribed :
Sacred to the memory of the Honorable Thomas W. Cobb, who departed this life on Monday, February 1. 1830, in the 46th year of, his age. He had been at successive periods a Representative and Senator in the Congress of the United States and was at the time of death a Judge of the Superior Courts of the State of Georgia. In his domestic circle, he was fond and affec- tionate; as a friend, honorable and sincere; as a states- man, independent and inflexible; as a judge, pure and incorruptible; amiable in private and useful in public life. "An honest man's the noblest work of God."
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Not far distant from the grave of Judge Cobb, there stands an obelisk of white marble, which, notwithstand- ing the lapse of more than fifty years, is exceedingly well preserved. It marks the last resting-place of another eminent Georgian. The inscription on this monument is as follows :
(West)
William C. Dawson was born on the 4th day of Jan- uary, 1798, and died on the 6th day of May, 1856. Bred to the Bar, he entered upon his profession in 1818 and prosecuted it successfully until his death.
(South)
In 1830, by order of the General Assembly, he com -- piled the Statutes of Georgia. In 1845, he was ap- pointed by the Governor to fill a vacancy on the bench of the Ocmulgee Circuit, declining a candidacy, at the expiration of his term. He represented his native county of Greene in the Legislature for a number of years, and the State of Georgia in the representative branch of Congress, from December 1836, to November 1841. In November, 1847, he was elected a Senator from Georgia in the Congress of the Union and dis- charged the duties of the place for the constitutional term of six years.
(East)
He was an able jurist, an eloquent advocate, and an upright judge. Cautious, practical, and independent, he commanded confidence by frankness of his manners, purity of his motives, and candor of his counsel.
(North)
The State of Georgia honors his memory for his fi- delity to her numerons trusts, his neighbors cherish it because he was kind and liberal to them, his family re- vere it because as husband, parent, and master, he was affectionate, considerate, gentle, and true.
The wife of Judge Dawson sleeps beside him. Her grave is marked by a monument somewhat similar in design.
Underneath a massive monument of white marble, sleeps a renowned jurist of the ante-bellum period:
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JUDGE FRANCIS H. CONE. In 1844, Judge Cone became involved in a personal difficulty with Alexander H. Stephens, on the steps of the old Thompson Hotel in Atlanta, the sensational character of which has somewhat overshadowed his prestige at the Bar and on the Bench. but the fact remains that he was one of the ablest jurists of his day in Georgia. On each side of the monument. there is a carefully-worded inscription, dealing with some particular phase of his career. These, taken separately, read as follows :
(Front)
Our Father. In memory of HON. FRANCIS H. CONE, who was born on the 5th of September, 1797, and died on the 18th of May, 1859. Erected by his children.
(Side)
A lawyer, able, aente, diligent, learned, he attained confessedly to the front rank of his profession, with no superior, if any equals. A judge at that time, upon the highest judicial Bench of the State, he inaugurated numerous practical reforms, approved and followed to this day and, though no reporter preserved his decisions, Tradition at the Bar will long retain the memory of his administration.
(Rear)
He sought not political honors and sat but onee in the Legislative Halls of his adopted State. Yet this brief term as a Legislator was improved by the prepa- ration and adoption of such various and important re- forms in the Law that they alone would entitle him to the grateful remembrance of the people he served.
(Side)
In domestie and social life, he was most happy and beloved: an indulgent father, a merciful master, a loyal friend, and a genial companion. By his ready wit, by his flowing conversation, by his universal charity and his kind disposition, he enchained the attention, elaimed the admiration, and won the affeetions of all who knew him.
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Almost within the shadow of the Cone monument, rest the mortal ashes of a noted pioneer educator and minister of the gospel, DR. FRANCIS CUMMINS, whose memory still abides in upper Georgia like a fragrant incense. He was the first Presbyterian minister to preach in Greene County. On the horizontal slab which covers the grave of this devout pioneer is inscribed the following epitaph :
THE REV. FRANCIS CUMMINS, D. D. Died, Feb. 22, 1852, in the 85th year of his age and the 53rd of his ministry, fully assured there remaineth a rest to the people of God.
His widow, SARAH CUMMINS, who attained to the same ripe age, is buried with her husband, in the same tomb.
The famous schism of 1844, in the Methodist Episco- pal Church of the United States, was due to the fact that when Bishop James O. Andrew married his second wife, a much beloved lady of Greensboro, he became the owner of slave property, with which he refused to part. Mrs. Andrew, the innocent cause of this upheaval, the result of which was the formation of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, sleeps in this burial ground. Her grave is marked by a neat monument inscribed as follows:
In memory of ANN LEONORA, wife of REV. BISHOP ANDREW. Born, July 26, 1801. Died at Oxford, June 10, 1854. As a wife, mother, step-mother, and mistress, she had no superior. As a Christian, dil- igent, humble, and conscientious. A bereaved husband and sorrowing children have inscribed this frail testi- monial to her memory.
JUDGE HENRY T. LEWIS, a distinguished jurist, who served his State on the Supreme Court Bench, is buried here. In the famous Chicago Convention, of 1896, Judge
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Lewis, as the chosen spokesman of the Georgia delega- tion, placed William J. Bryan in nomination. On the handsome granite headstone is lettered the following epitaph :
HENRY THOMAS LEWIS. 1847-1903. Associate Justice, Supreme Court of Georgia, 1897-1902. A faith- ful and able advocate. A learned and upright judge. Withal a kindly gentleman and a true friend.
For years, with each successive session of the State Legislature, HON. THOMAS STOCKS, of Greensboro, was chosen to preside over the deliberations of the State Senate of Georgia. He was a power in public affairs, a zealous advocate of internal improvements, and one of the founders of Mercer University, to which he contribu- ted largely of his means. On the neat monument which marks the grave of this pioneer citizen of Greensboro is chiseled an open Bible, underneath which the following epitaph is inscribed :
THOMAS STOCKS. Born, Feb. 1, 1786. United with the Baptist Church, 1828. Died, Oct. 6, 1876. "He was a good man, full of the Holy Ghost and of faith." Acts, 11: 24.
Near the tomb of Senator Cobb, there stands an obelisk, yellow with time, which marks the last resting place of a soldier of the Revolution : JEREMIAH SANFORD. The inscription on the monument reads :
JEREMIAH SANFORD. Born in Virginia, Nov. 4, 1739. Died, August 11, 1825. He was a soldier of the Revolution, a friend of Washington, and an honest man.
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Oconee Cemetery, Athens
For more than forty years, the little cemetery on Jackson street, facing the University campus, was the sole burial ground of the town of Athens. Here rest DR. MOSES WADDELL, one of the greatest of the presidents of Franklin College; REV. HOPE HULL, one of the ear- liest of the local pioneers, and a host of others. In justice to these men, who blazed the way for the future town and who laid the foundations of the University, whose names-some of them at least-are household words in Georgia, it is deeply to be regretted that the little cemetery has been permitted of late years to be- come a thicket of weeds. The present beautiful burial ground of the city of Athens is most charmingly situated upon the banks of the Oconee River, on the extreme out- skirts of the town. It comprises an extensive area of land; but when first opened in 1856 it embraced little more than twenty-five acres. To quote Mr. A. L. Hull, in his "Annals of Athens," it is one of the most beautiful of spots, "adorned by nature with forest trees, with vines covering hillsides, clinging to rocks and climbing the sombre pines, while at the foot of the hills the Oconee murmurs between banks redolent with honey-suckles and jessamines." Here a host of Georgia's distinguished men lie buried.
On the highest knoll in the cemetery sleeps GOVERNOR WILSON LUMPKIN. Except for a circular area of ground, somewhere near the center of which he is supposed to rest, there is nothing whatever to mark the grave of this illustrious Georgian. He served the State in the high office of Governor, in the popular branch of Congress, and in the United States Senate. He was also one of the pio- meers of railway development in Georgia, and the present capital of the State was at one time called Marthasville in compliment to his daughter. Moreover, in honor of the old Governor himself one of the counties of the State was called Lumpkin. Much of the land embraced in the
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present cemetery belonged at one time to his extensive plantation ; and he sleeps today in sight of his old home place, Cedar Hill, where he resided for more than half a century. It seems like the irony of fate that he should fill an unmarked grave amid such surroundings. But after all could there be reared to him a memorial more appropriate than the verdant mausoleum in which he sleeps, where every leaf and twig and blade of grass recalls the epitaph of Sir Christopher Wren :
" If you seek his monument, look around you."
Under a magnificent shaft of granite repose the mor- tal ashes of GENERAL HOWELL COBB, one of Georgia's most distinguished sons. His long list of public honors includ- ed the Speakership of the national House of Representa- tives, the treasury portfolio in Mr. Buchanan's cabinet, the high office of Governor of the State, and the presi- dency of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States of America. He was also a Confederate Major- General. On the west side of the handsome monument is inscribed :
HOWELL COBB, son of John Addison Cobb and his wife Sarah Rootes Cobb. Born, Cherry Hill, Jefferson Co., Ga., Sept. 7, 1815. Died, New York City, Oct. 9, 1868.
On the south side :
Representative from Georgia in the Congress of the United States, 1843-1851, 1856-1857. Speaker of the House of Representatives, 31st Congress. Governor of the State of Georgia, 1857-1860. President of the Pro- visional Congress of the Confederate States of America. Colonel 16th Regiment Georgia Volunteers, C. S. A. Brigadier-General, C. S. A. Major-General, C. S. A.
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Beside him sleeps his beloved wife, MARY ANN LAMAR COBB; and in the same area lie buried JUDGE HOWELL COBB, his son and THOMAS R. R. COBB, his grandson. The latter was a young lawyer of the most brilliant promise, whose early death was a bereavement to the State. He was handsome, magnetic, and gifted.
In another part of the cemetery, on a large square lot, enclosed by an iron fence, stands a superb monument of marble. It marks the last resting place of one of Geor- gia's purest and greatest men-GENERAL THOMAS R. R. COBB, a brother of the distinguished Governor. It was due chiefly to the eloquent appeals of this one man that Georgia in 1861, adopted the ordinance of secession. Until this time he had never held a political office or made a political speech. His zeal in the cause of Southern inde- pendence, coupled with his deep religious nature, caused him to be likened to Peter the Hermit. He was the author of Cobb on Slavery, a masterpiece of legal litera- ture, compiled before he was thirty-six. He was also one of the pioneers of the public school system in Georgia, and the founder of Lucy Cobb Institute. At the out- break of the war, he organized and commanded Cobb's famous legion. He was killed by a shell at the battle of Fredericksburg; and his death was the occasion of a letter from General Lee, addressed to his brother, paying the highest tribute to his character as a soldier. Inscribed on the monument is the following brief record, in a list of the Cobb family names :
THOMAS R. R. COBB. Born, April 16, 1823. Died, Dec. 13, 1862, at Fredericksburg, Va.
CAPTAIN HENRY JACKSON, a distinguished member of the Georgia bar, with his sons, DAVENPORT, THOMAS COBB, and HENRY R. also sleep here; while in the same lot are
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buried DR. JOHN GERDINE, a beloved physician of Athens ; PROF. W. W. LUMPKIN, a son of the Chief Justice and a former professor of Belle Lettres in the University of Georgia ; MR. A. L. HULL, for years secretary and treas- urer of the Board of Trustees; besides other members of the same family connection.
In the lot adjacent sleeps COLONEL JOHN ADDISON COBB, one of the pioneer citizens of Athens, for whom the beautiful residence section known as Cobbham was named. He was the father of the two illustrious Confederate generals. The inscription on the handsome slab which marks his grave is as follows:
COLONEL JOHN ADDISON COBB. Born 5th Jan., 1783. Died 23rd Nov., 1855. An affectionate husband, a kind, fond parent, a public spirited citizen, a friend to the friendless, a consistent Christian, he lived. Wept by his family, mourned by his friends, respected by all, without an enemy, in the triumph of faith, he died.
COLONEL WILLIAM H. JACKSON, who married MILDRED LEWIS, a sister of Colonel Jolin Addison Cobb, is buried in this same lot. He was a member of the first graduating class of the State University and a son of the famous GOVERNOR JAMES JACKSON, of Savannah. The brief in- scription on his tomb reads :
COLONEL WILLIAM H. JACKSON. Born June 3, 1786. Died Aug. 8, 1875.
This distinguished Georgian died at the age of ninety. He served in the State Senate of Georgia and was for years a member of the board of trustees of his alma mater. Colonel Jackson was an eccentric old man and some time prior to his death he formally executed a deed of gift conveying to an old shade tree the area of ground
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whichi lies immediately around it. This tree-perhaps tlie only freeholder of the kind in existence-is still standing in Athens, enclosed by an iron railing.
PROF. WILLIAMS RUTHERFORD, who married LAURA, a daughter of Colonel Jolin Addison Cobb, is buried in this same enclosure, beside his wife. Here too sleeps his son, JOHN C. RUTHERFORD, a distinguished lawyer of Macon. Prof. Rutherford occupied for thirty-three years the chair of mathematics in the State University, his alma mater. His father was a classmate of Colonel Wm. H. Jackson, in the first class to graduate from old Franklin College. His daughter, MILDRED LEWIS, is the noted educator and historian.
Under a horizontal block of granite, in a corner of the Cobb lot, sleeps a gallant Georgian who perished on the field of battle. The inscription on the tomb reads :
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL JEFFERSON MIRA- BEAU LAMAR, son of L. Q. C. Lamar and Sarah Byrd. Born in Milledgeville, Ga., Jan. 3, 1835. Died Sept. 15, 1862. He fell mortally wounded at the battle of Cramp- ton's Gap, Maryland, leading Cobb's Georgia Legion. He was a true Southern gentleman, without fear and without reproach.
In the same part of the cemetery, perhaps a hundred feet distant from the Cobb lot, underneath a handsome granite stone, sleeps the immortal discoverer of anes- thesia. Beside him sleeps his beloved wife; and the
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monument erected to both, in the center of the square, contains the following inscription :
CRAWFORD WILLIAMSON LONG, M. D. Born November 1, 1815. Died June 16, 1878. "My profes- sion is to me a ministry from God." CAROLINE SWAIN LONG. Born December 14, 1825. Died Sep- tember 23, 1888. "They rest in everlasting love."
Dr. Long's statue will eventually be placed by the State of Georgia in Statuary Hall, in Washington, D. C. At the University of Pennsylvania a handsome medallion of the great physician was recently unveiled. There hangs a life-size portrait of him on the walls of Georgia's State capitol.
On a small headstone, in a corner of the same lot with Dr. Long, are chiseled the initials "H. L. S." The little block of granite marks the grave of HENRI L. STUART, of New York. He presented to the State of Georgia in 1879 an oil painting of Dr. Long; and while on a visit to Athens, after attending the formal exercises of presenta- tion, he died suddenly and was buried at his request on the lot with Dr. Long. He seems to have been without family ties or connections at the North.
Directly opposite the Long lot is the grave of DR. NATHAN HOYT, who for thirty-six years was pastor of the old First Presbyterian Church, of Athens. Dr. Hoyt was the grandfather of MRS. WOODROW WILSON. In this same part of the cemetery sleeps MAJOR WILLIAM S. GRADY, the father of the South's great editor and orator; also DR. CHARLES W. LANE, one of the most beloved pastors of Athens, the successor to Dr. Nathan Hoyt. Handsome monuments mark the graves of both of these divines ; but
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only a simple headstone tells where Major Grady lies buried.
Close to the river side in the center of a lot, somewhat overgrown with weeds, is a handsome family monument on the base of which is inscribed :
WADDELL
Here lie buried two distinguished educators, JAMES P. WADDELL and WILLIAM H. WADDELL, father and son, both of whom were long identified with the University of Geor- gia. There are no epitaphs on the monument except one to a daughter of Prof. Wm. H. Waddell, who died at the age of 21. But both of the graves are marked by neat headstones. DR. MOSES WADDELL, one of the early presi- dents of Franklin College, is buried in the little cemetery on Jackson Street; but he is here memoralized by a little block of stone which tells of his interment elsewhere.
The Waddell monument is a work of art. It is sur- mounted by the statue of an angel making an entry in the book of life. The entire structure is of white marble.
Enclosed by an iron fence, facing one of the main driveways of the cemetery, on the slope of the highest hill is the grave of a noted educator. It is not far distant from the tomb of General Howell Cobb; and the inscrip- tion on the monument reads :
HENRY JACKSON, M. D., LL. D. Born in Eng- land, July 7, 1778. Died near Athens, April 26, 1840. " We meet again."
His wife is buried beside him. Dr. Jackson, when a young man, accompanied the great WILLIAM H. CRAWFORD to France, in 1813, and witnessed the famous scene in the
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audience chamber of Napoleon between the great diplo- mat and the first emperor. DR. JACKSON was the younger brother of old GOVERNOR JAMES JACKSON and the father of GENERAL HENRY R. JACKSON, both of Savannah.
Marked by a neat shaft of white marble, which time seems gently to have touched is the grave of a distin- guished jurist and statesman for whom Georgia has named one of her counties-JUDGE AUGUSTIN S. CLAYTON. Judge Clayton represented Georgia with distinction both in Congress and on the bench. He was also a writer of brilliant satire. When a pupil at the Richmond Academy, in Augusta, he received for the best declamation a copy of Sallust presented by the illustrious Washington, then President of the United States. The inscription on the monument is as follows :
AUGUSTIN SMITH CLAYTON, who was born in Frederick Co., Va., Nov. 27, 1783 and died at Athens, Ga., June 21, 1839. His eulogy is with those who knew him best.
Beside him sleeps his wife, JULIA CARNES CLAYTON.
Only a few feet distant is the grave of DR. ALONZO CHURCH, one of the most distinguished presidents of Franklin College. He also filled for a number of years the chair of mathematics. His last resting place is beauti- fied by a handsome marble column, surmounted by an urn. Inscribed on the monument is the following brief record :
Sacred to the memory of REVEREND DOCTOR ALONZO CHURCH. Born at Brattleboro, Vt., April 9, 1793. Died May 18, 1862.
In the same lot is buried his wife, SARAH TRIPPE, STEELE, his daughter, MRS. ROBB, and his grand-daughter,
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SARAH CRAIG BARROW, the first wife of United States Senator POPE BARROW.
To the right of the main entrance to the cemetery is the grave of the noted DR. LIPSCOMB, the first of the chancellors. The spot is marked by a handsome shaft of marble, which bears the following inscription :
ANDREW ADGATE LIPSCOMB, D. D., LL. D. Born in Georgetown, D. C., Sept. 5, 1816. Died in Athens, Ga., Nov. 23, 1890. On the left side: Chancellor University of Georgia, 1860-1874. On the right side, a quotation from Scripture. In the rear : "Life's race well run, 1
Life's work well done, Life's crown well won, Now comes rest. "
His gifted son, FRANCIS ADGATE LIPSCOMB, at one time professor of Belle Lettres, occupies a neatly marked grave in the same area.
On the summit of the hill, near the Lumpkin circle, sleeps CHANCELLOR MELL. The handsome obelisk of blue granite which marks the grave of the famous educator, parliamentarian, and divine, bears the following inscrip- tion :
Sacred to the memory of Patrick Hues Mell. Born in Walthourville, Liberty Co., Ga., July 18, 1814. Died at Athens, Ga., Jan. 26, 1888.
On the side :
"Servant of God, well done, Rest from thy loved employ ; The battle fought, the victory won, Enter thy Master's joy. ''
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At the foot of the slope, just in front of the main entrance to the cemetery is the grave of CHANCELLOR WALTER B. HILL. It is covered with a neat layer of brick, but is otherwise unmarked. In the near future a hand- some monument will doubtless beautify the spot. Mr. Hill was the first alumnus of the institution to hold the office of chancellor. He was also the first layman; and from his induction into office dates the modern University, with its enlarged boundaries and with its new ideals.
Not far from the grave of GOVERNOR COBB, facing the main driveway, stands a modest slab of marble, on which the following inscription appears :
GENERAL M. L. SMITH. Sept. 29th, 1829. July 29th, 1866.
GENERAL SMITH was a graduate of West Point and a classmate of GENERAL LONGSTREET. He married Miss Sarah Nisbet, of Athens; and, on resigning from the old army, he came here to live. He served in the Mexican War and was one of the founders of the famous Aztec Club, composed of Mexican War veterans. His career in the Civil War was replete with honors, and he attained to the rank of Major-General by reason of his prowess. At the close of hostilities, he was made professor of Civil Engineering in the University but he died in Rome, Ga., while an engineer of the Alabama and Tennessee Rail- road.
To the list of distinguished dead here buried on the Oconee's green banks may be added : JOHN WHITE, who built the first cotton factory south of Baltimore; FERDI- NAND PHINIZY and YOUNG L. G. HARRIS, two of the most noted financiers and business men of Athens; JACOB PHINIZY, an early pioneer; DR. EUSTACE W. SPEER, a noted educator and divine, the father of JUDGE EMORY SPEER; ALBON CHASE, a wide-awake man of varied inter- ests, who organized the Athens Banner; GEN. BURWELL
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POPE, an officer of the State militia; CAPT. HENRY H. CARLTON, a gallant Confederate soldier and a member of Congress ; COL. WM. G. DELONEY, a brave commander who fell in battle and who sleeps in a grave unmarked; ALEX- ANDER B. LINTON, THOMAS BISHOP, WM. H. DORSEY, THOMAS N. HAMILTON, JAMES CAMAK, WILLIAM DEARING, EDWARD R. HODGSON, DR. EDWARD R. WARE, DR. HENRY HULL, HON. ASBURY HULL, THOMAS MOORE, THOMAS STANLEY, MARCELLUS STANLEY, ROBERT TAYLOR, STEVENS THOMAS, WILLIAM A. TALMADGE, WILLIAM L. MITCHELL, DR. JAMES NISBET, JOHN NISBET, ELIZUR L. NEWTON, JOHN H. NEWTON, DR. JOHN S. LINTON, DR. RICHARD D. MOORE, THOMAS STANLEY, MARCELLUS STANLEY, STEPHEN W. HARRIS, SAMPSON W. HARRIS, FREDERICK W. LUCAS, OLIVER H. PRINCE, JR. ; WILLIAM M. MORTON, W. W. THOMAS, GEORGE D. THOMAS, JUDGE HOWARD VAN EPPS, DR. JOSEPH B. CARLTON, ALBIN P. DEARING, JOHN W. NICHOLSON, REUBEN NICKERSON, A. K. CHILDS, JUDGE S. P. THURMOND, PROF. CHARLES MORRIS, PROF. C. P. WILLCOX, REV. ELLER- SON D. STONE, a beloved minister and printer, who mar- ried more couples than any man who has lived in Athens; and a host of others. JUDGE CHARLES DOUGHERTY, for whom the State has named a county was for years a resi- dent of Athens and is supposed to be buried in Oconee Cemetery; but his name cannot be found among the records.
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