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What a gem full of information!! I love this story. Those revelations are few but so welcome when they happen.

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Feb 21Liked by Alicia M Prater

I love finding details like this in newspaper databases!

Technically, the FindAGrave terms of service discourage people from uploading obituaries, but I'm always grateful when people do in these cases. When I find them, I try to document them with a source citation and transcription on WikiTree.

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Yes, when I've seen these before I try to find the actual newspaper so it can be properly cited. I'm still searching for which paper this one appeared in but it was such a WTF stone inscription without that context lol

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It's almost as if they didn't think about us needing to cite the sources when they made those stones!

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Great story and well written! Thank you for sharing.

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Very cool story, it always seems to start with a curiosity, doesn't it. Like that itch you can't quite scratch. Well done!

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