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Be my guest!
On Sep 30, 2011, at 2:48 PM, Anne Pemberton wrote:
> Craig,
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> May I have your permission to share this on facebook?
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> Anne
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> On 9/29/2011 7:27 PM, Craig Kilby wrote:
>> I have to chuckle at some of the epitaphs and legends that come with some of the burials I find while working on the upcoming book of War of 1812 Veterans' Burials in Virginia.
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>> This one is priceless:
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>> "Legend tells us that he was so mean to his wife that she buried him face down and covered his grave with a with a three foot wall of stone and placed one huge stone on top of that to ensure he would never return to this earth."
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>> This was for John Gilliam, died 1828 in Buckingham County. We don't know the name of the widow.
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>> Craig Kilby
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