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Person Details
 
Last NamePEARCE
First NameBENJAMIN S
Maiden 
Relation 
Cemetery NumberLC022
Cemetery NameWRIGHT PEARCE LOT
Birth Day0
Birth Month 
Birth Year1797c
Death Day6
Death MonthOCT
Death Year1822
War 
Gravestone Details
Section 
Lot 
Map00012
Stone Materialslate
Conditiongood
Shapefancy top
Carvingurn/willow
Legibilitygood
Number of Graves on Stone1
Stone Height (inches)37
Stone Width (inches)20
Exists?
Last Seen Date2010
CarverF. COOLEY, SC
Notes/Misc Details
Notes[LCF: s/o Col. Joeseph Pearce and Anna Hilliard] "Stop traveller and drop a tear, If perchance you linger here, For one cut down in life's gay bloom, And laid within the silent tomb, My prospects late were fair as thine, And soon thy fate may be like mine."
Transcribed ByBFW,HSB;LRC