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1. Sarah Jane, b. March 16, 1844; m. James G. Fork- ner, December 1, 1866. They moved to Oklahoma about 1892, where she died in 1912.
2. Julia Ann, March 14, 1846; m. James F. Nichols, June 16, 1864, and moved to Decatur, Ala., where he died.
3. Mary Caroline, b. August 28, 1848; m. William Fry on September 2, 1869. (See Fry.)
4. John Willson, b. September 8, 1850; m. Mollie E. Young, August 28, 1875. They went to Texas and from there to Arkansas. They had five children, names not known.
5. Samuel Rowan, b. October 30, 1852; (first) m. Miss Rogers, of Decatur, Ala. She died April 11, 1902. He died in Nashville and was buried at the Sweetwater Cem- etery. They had three children: Walter, Samuel and Irma. He married (second) Miss Smith. Two chil- dren.
6. William, b. September 22, 1854. Went to Texas in 1892; married there. History not known.
7. James, b. December 3, 1856; d. January 28, 1890. He was a stock trader. Unmarried.
8. Robert Jackson, b. March 7, 1859; m. Nannie Eddy of Meigs County. She died and he afterwards married Ella Pratt. He was a locomotive engineer in the em- ploy of the L. & N. Railroad in Birmingham, Ala.
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9. Nancy Lenoir, b. July 13, 1861; d. June 24, 1862.
Irby Orr was married (second) to Mrs. Chaney S. Barrett on March 10, 1863. She was formerly Chaney Nichols, of Pittsylvania County, Va. Her parents were John and Elizabeth Shelton Nichols. Their children were :
10. Charles W., b. May 10, 1868; m. Miss Love. They had one child, b. May 14, 1903.
11. Lillian, b. March 2, 1874; m. Reece Lowry June, 1907. He is an insurance agent living in Chattanooga, Tenn.
FRANCIS A. PATTON
Was born in North Carolina. He came to Monroe County, Tenn. He married a Miss Rose. They had two children, Horace and Mary. Mary m. Charles L. Owen (whom see). Horace joined the Confederate army and was captured at Vicksburg. After the war was over he married Mary E. Cleveland on December 28, 1865. Jos. Janeway, minister. Mary was the daughter of Robt. and Elizabeth Cleveland and a sister of Wm. Cleveland. Their subsequent history is not known to the writer.
After the death of his first wife, Francis A. Patton married Amanda A. Taylor, sister of E. A. Taylor in the latter part of 1841. He died at his residence where C. D. Browder now lives, in 1845. Their children were: Frank T. He was born in 1842. He was in the Civil War and was captured at Vicksburg. Soon after the Civil War he went to Georgia and afterwards to the southern part of Missouri. He was elected to the Legis- lature from one of the counties there. He died on Sep- tember 13, 1901.
Anne E., b. January 12, 1844; d. March 18, 1890. Mar- ried T. E. Snead (whom see).
James F., born in the latter part of 1846. Married Callie Ferguson, formerly of Monroe; County, Tenn., in 1868. They reside at Alva, Okla. Their children are: Mary F., Elizabeth A., Will E., Preston C., Sal- lie A., Carrie E., Amy L., Horace F. and Ora J. All married except the two youngest, Horace and Ora. Ho- race is a minister in Rhode Island. Was educated at theological seminary in Boston, Mass.
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Francis A. Patton died in 1845. Mrs. Amanda Pat- ton was married (second) to Thomas L. Brickell on January 3, 1850. They had one daughter, Emma, born the latter part of 1850, who married Joseph Traylor in 1870. She is dead. He lives in White County, Ark.
STEPHEN PARSHLEY
Was born March 11, 1811, in Middletown, Conn. He came to Lenoir's, Tenn., in 1832, where he was employed for some years in the cotton factory. Moved to Phila- delphia, Tenn., in 1845. Married Martha Stewart Brock, in 1839, in Stockton valley. She was born in Virginia, September 25, 1816. Died at Philadelphia, November 18, 1882, and was buried there. Stephen Parshley, in the latter years of his life, was a stock trader. He was a Methodist. Died at Philadelphia in February, 1851. Interred in Stekee Cemetery, near Loudon. His children were :
Sarah, b. June 27, 1840. Married Harvey Porter. E. Sophia, b. June 22, 1846. Married Thomas H. Grieb, of Joplin, Mo.
Mary Virginia, b. January 23, 1849. Married Milton Bayless, of Chestua, McMinn County, who was a farmer. She died near Gudger, Tenn., March 27, 1914. He died there in 1915.
Stephen, b. June 4, 1851. He went to Ashland, Kan., about 1880, and was a lawyer and prosecuting attorney while there. He went from Kansas to Park City, Utah, and from there to Lawton, Okla., where he was married to Mrs. Kate Whitney. He afterwards moved to Den- ver, Col., where he now (1916) lives.
WASHINGTON LAFAYETTE PRICE
Was the son of Addison and Julia Loughlin Price. He was born at Philadelphia, Tenn., on December 8, 1830. He died there on May 28, 1890, and was buried at the old cemetery. His wife, Mary Jane, was the daughter of John and Mary Holston. John Holston was born November 29, 1800. Mary Jane Holston Price was born June 5, 1834, and died at Johnson City at the home
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of her granddaughter, Mrs. Kate Burbage, on January 11, 1913. She was buried at Stekee Cemetery near Lou- don, Tenn.
W. L. Price was express agent at Loudon during the Civil War and was also postmaster until he came to Sweetwater in 1864 and engaged in the general mercan- tile business. He was a member of Sweetwater Lodge No. 292 F. & A. M., and also of Chapter No. 57 R. A. M. He lived at Sweetwater until 1872 when he sold out his business there and moved to California. Later he re- turned to Tennessee and made Knoxville his home for many years.
The children of W. L. and M. J. Price were three, one daughter, Mary Julia, was born at Loudon July 16, 1854. Died there February 16, 1859.
William B., his oldest son, was born at Loudon De- cember 3, 1859. He took up the study of music under Mrs. H. M. Cooke, at Sweetwater, and also under his father, both of whom had a thorough understanding of music. William B. was organist at the Episcopal church at Cleveland, Tenn., and afterwards organist in Chi- cago. He is now president of the Price-Teeple Piano Company of Chicago, Ill. Their business is the manu- facture of pianos and player pianos. Mr. Price pre- sented a fine piano to the H. M. Cooke Memorial Li- brary Association at Sweetwater, Tenn. William B. Price has been twice married. He married, first, Lucie A. Smith, of Rogersville, Tenn., and second Natalie Whitted, of Chicago, Ill.
Albert F. Price, son of first marriage, was born in Knoxville, Tenn., on January 9, 1883. He is general wholesale representative of the Price-Teeple Company.
Kate, daughter of the first marriage, was born in Knoxville, August 11, 1884. She married Henry J. Burbage. He resides at Johnson City, Tenn., where he is engaged in the wholesale produce business.
Charles, the second son of W. L. and M. J. Price, was born at Sweetwater on September 27, 1868 .. Unmarried. He is the eastern representative of the Price-Teeple Piano Co.
The ancestors of W. L. and Mary J. Price were among
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the early settlers of America and fought under Wash- ington in the Revolutionary War.
WILLIAM PENNINGTON
Was born in Ashe County, N. C., December 13, 1777; d. in Sweetwater Valley, April 22, 1838. His wife, Eliz- abeth Eller, was born in North Carolina in October, 1776; d. December 7, 1844. He moved to Sweetwater Valley and settled on the Jesse Martin (Presley Cleve- land) place. He sold his interest there to Presley Cleveland and moved to what was afterwards the Riley Burns farm and there reared his family. They had one son,
John Pennington, who was born in Ashe County, N. C., October 27, 1801. He came with his father, first to Knox County, and then to Sweetwater Valley in 1820. He married Alpha Davis, of Somerset, Ken. She was born in 1802 and died in 1872. She was buried at Cleve- land Cemetery. The children of John and Alpha Pen- nington were:
One. Lucinda Elizabeth, b. July 4, 1823; d. December 9, 1828.
Two. Hiram B., b. 1825; m. Margaret Pickel, daughter of Jonathan Pickel, in 1848. He died in Gentry County, Mo. (at the age of 58), where they had previously moved. Their children were:
1. ("Big") John, lives at Salem, Ore. He is now (1916) 61 years of age.
2. Alpha, m. Easterly. Lives in Missouri.
3. Eliza, m. Robinson. Lives in Gentry Coun- ty, Mo. (
Three. Emeline, b. 1827; m. Eli Mathew, son of Eli Cleveland (whom see).
Four. William Jasper, b. April 10, 1829; d. October, 1852. Baptized July, 1851. Unmarried.
Five. John Calloway, b. July 31, 1831. His father, John Pennington and John Calloway, who lived near Cleveland church, were cousins. He was baptized Oc- tober, 1856. He married Esther Caroline Bryant, March 20, 1855. She was the daughter of A. P. Bryant, of McMinn County, Tenn. She was born January 9, 1836; d. June 4, 1905. Their children were :
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1. Addie Frances, b. December 25, 1855; d. May, 1905. She married S. S. Caldwell of Alabama. They moved to Dodd, Fannin County, Texas. They were the par- ents of seven children, six boys and one daughter. They mostly live in the section of Texas named above.
2. Alpha Ann, second daughter of John Calloway Pen- nington, was born October 4, 1857; m. James Richeson of Pond Creek Valley in 1884. They moved to Fannin County, Texas, in 1888. They are the parents of six children, four daughters and two sons. Bertie and Ger- tie were twins and were born in Pond Creek Valley in 1886. They were married in Texas. The other chil- dren, except the youngest daughter, are also married and several of them have families.
3. Aley, b. February, 1860; d. June, 1913; m. James A. Cook, brother of Dr. S. B. Cook, late of Chattanooga. She died in 1877. They resided on Paint Rock Creek. Their children were:
(1) Lena, now (1916) 33 or 34 years of age; m. B. F. Kyle, of Anniston, Ala.
(2) John, now (1916), aged 30.
(3)' May, married. Resides at Anniston, Ala.
(4) Charles Bates, b. 1888 or 1889. Lives at Anniston, Ala.
4. Mary, daughter of John Calloway Pennington, b. October, 1862; d. 1882. Unmarried.
5. Emma, b. February 22, 1865; d. 1890; m. Robert Pardue, brother of Rev. H. Clay Pardue, in 1884. Their children are John, b. 1885, and William, b. 1887.
6. John Bryant, b. June 7, 1868; m. Margaret, sister of W. Y. Wilson, on March 29, 1891. He was elected county court clerk of Monroe County in August, 1910, and re-elected in 1914. Children are: Carl, b. January 19, 1894; Janie Esther, b. October, 1896; Callie, b. Feb- ruary 9, 1898; Nannie, b. March 13, 1901; Eliza, b. Jan- uary 29, 1904; Margaret, b. April 21, 1906.
7. William Horace, seventh child of John Calloway Pennington, b. July 2, 1870. Married Zada Lloyd in Springfield, Mo. Was killed October 16, 1915, in Inter- urban Railroad accident. Four children, one boy and three girls were born to them.
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8. Charles Edward, eighth child of John Calloway Pennington, b. October 2, 1872. Married Belle Pope, a niece of James Pope, who was county court clerk of Roane County for thirty years. Charles Pennington is a R. F. D. carrier. Their children are: James Clifford, b. April 15, 1894; Essie, b. February, 1896; Annie Belle, b. 1898; John, b. 1901; Lizzie, b. 1903; Mattie Lee, b. 1904; Emma, b. 1907; Charles, b. 1911.
Sixth. Mary Ann, sixth child of Jno. and Alpha Pen- nington, b. November 10, 1833; d. 1913; m. Harvey H. Cleveland (whom see).
Seven. Francis Marion, seventh child of John and Alpha Davis Pennington, was born in 1836. Baptized May, 1860; m. Virginia, daughter of Dan Lowry, of MeMinn County, Tenn. He died at Athens, Tenn., at the age of 52. Their children are:
1. John B. Lives in Chattanooga; Tenn.
2. William, killed in a street car wreck in Chatta- nooga, on October 18, 1909.
3. Susie, m. Frank Page. Both dead. Three children : Mabel, Buell and Annie.
4. Callie, m. Wm. Cass, his second wife. Children: Carl, 23; Fred, 19; Claude, 13.
5. Maggie, m. Bedow. They had one daughter, Fan- nie, who m. Mills of Chattanooga.
1. John B. m. Corda Coltharp, daughter of Ham. Coltharp. She d. 1908. Six children :
(1) John Tedford, m. Nellie Roberts. Two children. Live at East Chattanooga.
(2) Ola Virginia, unmarried.
(3) Myrtle, m. McGloffin.
(4) Willie, b. 1897.
(5) Hubert, b. 1911.
6. Francis M., son of F. M. P .; b. February 20, 1883. Unmarried. His address is 535 Dodson Avenue, Chat- tanooga.
Eight. Robert Snead Pennington, b. 1840; d. unmar- ried.
Nine. Lodusky Caroline, b. 1842. Baptized September, 1855; m. Louis Bryant, son A. D. Bryant, who went to Gentry County, Mo. Mrs. B. is living ; Mr. B. is dead.
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COL. JOHN RAMSEY.
If a man bore the name of Ramsey, was a Presbyter- ian, revered his Maker, loved his country, stood by his section, was true to his party, was steadfast and im- movable in every principle he advocated, was clannish to a degree and would never desert his people till the last sad act in the drama of life, was fearless in de- meanor, keen of eye, long, lank and lean of form, would it take a Sherlock Holmes to figure out where he sprung from? One would not have to decipher cryptograms and make microscopical examinations to ascertain. Any intelligent schoolboy could tell you. That his ancestors at some time dwelt in the highlands of Scotland would be self-evident.
The Ramsey form was built for speed and endurance and not for grace. They leaped from crag to crag as they chased the wild deer over the brow of Ben Nevis; they waded the firths as they followed the trails in the fastnesses ; they collected their clan as the torches flashed their code signals from mountain top to mountain top. They marched over the peaks to the music of the bag- pipe or the shrill notes of the pibroch. With a Moray (Murray) or McGregor, claymore in hand, they made fierce forays into the lowlands. Many were the head of cattle they captured and drove northward to supple- ment their scant supply of "razor backs" on the Gram- pian Hills. Yet in "ye olden times" they did not al- ways have things their own way; notably when Cullo- den "reeked with the blood of the brave." They were unconquerable, however, on their native heath.
How they would have laughed at the build of a Dutch Stuyvesant, five feet high and four feet broad; or was it four feet high and five feet broad? What a contempt those mountaineers would have had for the stein and the long stemmed pipe. When they drank strong drink at all it was usquebaugh unmixed even with the water of their own pure mountain rills.
When clan met clan then came the tug of war, When Dutch met Dutch then came the lager beer.
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In the middle of the eighteenth century there lived a wealthy planter by the name of Stovall in Bedford County, Va. He owned much land and slaves and a large stock of family pride; in other words he was what might be termed an aristocrat. He had a beautiful daughter who was born on January 8, 1757.
He had in his employ an overseer named McBride. McBride died while in his service and he (Stovall), charged his family in spite of the difference in station and circumstances always to treat the McBrides with kindness and consideration in their bereavement. Over- seer McBride had a son not a great deal older than Elizabeth Stovall. She fell in love with and married him contrary to her parents' wishes. Although Mr. Sto- vall had exhorted his children to treat the McBrides kindly, he considered that this was kindness run mad. He sent word to his daughter that he never more wished to see her, her husband or his kinspeople and that he would forgive her in case she stayed away and never called on him or his for anything in the future. Thus Elizabeth Stovall early realized how sharper than a ser- pent's tooth it is to have a thankless father. Soon after the marriage with McBride the Revolutionary War came on and McBride joined the Virginia troops and came out of the war with the rank of colonel. Yet that made no difference and her parents were no more recon- ciled to her than before. McBride died not long after the war was over and she not a great while a widow mar- ried Major Jno. Ramsey who was also a Revolutionary soldier. They moved to Iredell County, N. C., where John Ramsey, the subject of this sketch was born Mav 5, 1797. While he was yet an infant John Ramsey senior moved to Greene County, Tenn., where he died. John Ramsey, Jr., came to Sweetwater Valley somewhere about the year 1820 when the Hiwassee District had been surveyed and the different tracts were for sale by the state. He made arrangements to purchase what was known as the Bunch tract, being the northwest quarter of section 35, township 2, range 1, east of the Basis Line. On a part of this tract now stands the T. M. I. College and the surrounding buildings. He however gave this up or disposed of it and finally settled, where J. C. War-
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en and wife, daughter of John Ramsey, now (1914) re- side, one-half mile south of Sweetwater.
Colonel John Ramsey's mother resided with her son many of the last years of her life. She died on October 4, 1854, reaching the advanced age of nearly 98 years. She is said to have retained her mental and physical faculties to the last in a remarkable degree. She was known for years in the neighborhood on account of ad- vanced age as "Granny" Ramsey.
COL. JOHN RAMSEY IN THE LEGISLATURE.
They say it was a great race for the Legislature in Monroe County, between Colonel John Ramsey and Wil- liam Heiskell. The political state of the nation and also the state of Tennessee and the personality of the con- testants made it so. At that time in 1847, James K. Polk, of Tennessee, was president of the United States. He had been elected by a narrow margin over Henry Clay on account of the latter's oppositions to the Mex- ican War. At that time also Aaron V. Brown and Neil S. Brown were opposing candidates on the Democratic and whig tickets. The parties in Tennessee were on a balance and it was impossible to say beforehand. which should be successful, and the complexion of the Legisla- ture whether whig or democratic was just as hard to predetermine as the aggregate vote of all the counties. Each seat in the General Assembly both in the lower and upper house was hotly contested.
Col. John Ramsey was the democratic candidate from Monroe County for the Legislature; William Heiskell was. the whig candidate. Besides the personalities of the candidates themselves, various issues made the canvass exciting. On the one hand it was charged that William Heiskell was an aristocrat. That he had to have a negro valet to help him dress himself. That he was too proud to wear the ordinary jeans clothes woven by the people of the county; that he wore store clothes and otherwise conducted himself as an aristocrat. It is true that he took his toddy and was fond of music and played the fiddle in Old Virginia style. On the other hand it was charged among the common people that Colonel Ramsey was somewhat effected by the prohibi-
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tionist ideas of Lorenzo Dow, who had made a canvass through this country. Furthermore it is charged against Colonel John Ramsey that he was not at all in sympathy with the southern ideas of the institution of slavery and' did not believe in its moral right. Ramsey was in favor of the Mexican War and acquisition of territory result- ing therefrom. Heiskell was opposed to this.
But the result of the canvass really turned on this, whether what was termed as the "one gallus copperas breeches Democrat" or the rich man should elect their representative to the county. As nearly always happens in such instances, what might be termed as the common people were in the majority, and Colonel John Ramsey was triumphantly elected.
Although William Heiskell was defeated by Colonel John Ramsey for the Legislature, yet his brother, F. S. Heiskell was elected senator from Knox County. This gave the majority to the whigs, the upper house of the Legislature being composed of thirteen whigs and twelve Democrats. The house was almost equally as close. In the year 1847 John Bell, who was then a member of the Legislature, was elected United States senator, receiv- ing 51 out of 90 votes on joint ballot. John Bell was afterwards a whig candidate for the President of the United States in the year 1860. That was when Lincoln was elected.
In the governor's race in 1847, Neil S. Brown, the whig candidate, defeated Aaron V. Brown, who was elected governor two years before. This was one of the last successes that the whigs ever had in the state of Tennes- see. The Legislature of 1847 was composed mostly of farmers and young men. John Bell and John Ramsey were the oldest members of the house, each being, ac- cording to the published roster, 60 years of age. Before Ramsey went to the Legislature the charter of the Hi- wassee Railroad from Dalton to Knoxville had been abandoned and given place to the charter of the E. T. & Ga. Railroad. Colonel John Ramsey had always been in favor of internal improvements and was a friend to the railroad. He did what he could in expediting the building of the railroad. From that time on there was
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little doubt that the railroad would be built, and before many years it was finished.
We will hereafter give something of the history of when the railroad was graded through Sweetwater Val- ley and how this was accomplished. The railroad was built partly by help of the state, lending its aid by bond issues, which constituted first mortgage on the roadbed, and by the citizens along the line of the railroad sub- scribing money and doing work on the grading, for which they received stock of the E. T. & Ga. Railroad. The railroad from Dalton to Knoxville was built entirely without the aid of foreign or out-of-state capital.
Colonel John Ramsey was by no means a highly educated man nor a man of extraordinary ability, but few men in the county have had more to do with its suc- cess and prosperity than he. This was owing to his hon- esty and integrity and his rare common sense, and men of all parties and religions recognized the existence in him of these sterling qualities.
This shows that a man has neither to be rich nor great nor highly educated nor have extravagant opportunities to have great influence in a community. I know of no man among early settlers whose example could be imi- tated with more profit by the rising generation.
William Griffitts, of Blount County, Tenn., was born in Virginia, July 13, 1781. His wife was born Septem- ber 26, 1779. She died at Unitia, Blount County, Tenn. These were the parents of Susanna Griffitts Ramsey, wife of Colonel John Ramsey. She was born at Unitia, Blount County, Tenn., February 12, 1802. She mar- ried Jno. Ramsey, February 28, 1822. She died at the Ramsey residence January 6, 1881. Jno. Ramsey died April 28, 1872. (For further history see Presbyterian church.) The children of Jno. and S. G. Ramsey were:
One. Mary, born October 19, 1828. Died March 7, 1863. On April 8, 1856, she married Frank Rowan and lived on Fork Creek, near Christianburg Church. They had one daughter, Bettie, who was born February 23, 1863. She married Jno. Moon, of Hamilton County, No- vember 29, 1905. They now (1915) reside at the old Ramsey residence. (1916) He looks after large estate of Mrs. Waren.
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Two. William Griffitts R., born March 29, 1835; d. February 22, 1850.
Three. Elizabeth Emmeline R., born March 25, 1837; d. October 19, 1862. Two and Three never married. buried in the Philadelphia Cemetery.
Four. . John Eagleton R., born September 27, 1839; married Martha E. Smith of Jonesboro, November 6, 1866. He served in the Confederate army in Co. Regt., Tenn. Vol., C. S. A. He moved to Bridgeport, Wise County, Texas. The children of J. E. and Martha E. were 11 in number. Six of whom now (1913) living and none married. They are:
James, Charles, George, Mary, Katie, Alice.
Four. Martha R., daughter of J. and S. Ramsey, born July 17, 1842.
CAPTAIN JACOB CATHEY WAREN.
His mother was Mary Cathey, daughter of George Cathey, of Haywood County, N. C. She was married twice, first to Sherwood Osborne, one of eleven brothers in Haywood County. They had no sisters. Sherwood, Thomas and Joseph, came to East Tennessee. Sher- wood Osborne died leaving several children, one of whom was, afterwards, Captain Tom Osborne, of the Confed- erate army. Mrs. Osborne married, a second time, to Jacob Waren, who came from Virginia in 1788, locating in Roane County, what is now Loudon. Jacob Cathey Waren, her son, was born in Roane County, December 25, 1842. On July 27, 1861, he enlisted in Captain John A. Rowan's company, afterwards known as Co. G, Ash- by's 2nd Tenn. Cav., Ashby's brig. Hume's Dis., Wheel- er's army corps, Army of Tennessee (Confederate).
In the archives of the General John C. Vaughn, Chap- ter No. 1244, U. D. C., is a history of his career as a Confederate soldier, prepared by Mrs. Myra Love Low- ry. It is too lengthy for us to reproduce in this work. A great part of the time during the war he served as an independent scout under General Jo. Wheeler.
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