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Person Details
Last Name
____
First Name
AUNT KATE
Maiden
Relation
Cemetery Number
NK006
Cemetery Name
MAJOR JOSHUA DAVIS LOT
Birth Day
0
Birth Month
Birth Year
Death Day
17
Death Month
SEP
Death Year
1856
War
Gravestone Details
Section
Lot
Map
Stone Material
granite
Condition
good
Shape
square top
Carving
no carving
Legibility
good
Number of Graves on Stone
1
Stone Height (inches)
Stone Width (inches)
Exists?
Last Seen Date
2012
Carver
Notes/Misc Details
Notes
Fieldstone 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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