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Person Details
 
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Last Name____
First NameAUNT KATE
Maiden 
Relation 
Cemetery NumberNK006
Cemetery NameMAJOR JOSHUA DAVIS LOT
Birth Day0
Birth Month 
Birth Year 
Death Day17
Death MonthSEP
Death Year1856
AGE nth Year -
AGE Years -
AGE Months -
AGE Days -
War 
Gravestone Details
Section 
Lot 
Map 
Stone Materialgranite
Conditiongood
Shapesquare top
Carvingno carving
Legibilitygood
Number of Graves on Stone1
Stone Height (inches) 
Stone Width (inches) 
Exists?
Last Seen Date2012
Carver 
Notes/Misc Details
NotesFieldstone marked with a small i.d. metal sheet: "In memory of Aunt Kate, Sep 17, 1856." Burgess says that Mr. Phillips said that this is the grave of a black female slave. A hand written note on the Burgess list: "a bi uncertain - thinks not gravestone Aunt Kate ex-slave belonged to Tillinghast then to Davis through marriage died Sep. 1856 - stone marked now."
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