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Photographer: Internet Archive
Caption: Ossoli Memorial
Mount Auburn Cemetery Cambridgeport, Massachusetts
Additional Description: This 1858 engraving of the Ossoli Memorial by Bricher R. Russell apppeared in A Handbook for Passengers over the Cambridge Railroad with a Description of Mount Auburn Cemetery, 1858 by W. V. Spencer. The inscription reads:

In Memory of
Margaret Fuller Ossoli
Born in Cambridge, Mass., May 23, 1810
By Birth a Child of New England
By Adoption A Citizen of Rome
By Genius Belonging to the World
In Youth
An Insatiate Student Seeking the Highest Culture
In Riper Years
Teacher, Writer, Critic of Literature And Art
In Mature Age
Companion and Helper of Many
Ernest Reformer in America and Europe
And of her Husband
Giovanni Angelo, Marquis Ossoli
He Gave up Rank, Station And Home
For the Roman Public
And For His Wife and Child
And of That Child
Angelo Eugene Philip Ossoli
Born in Rieti, Italy Sept 5, 1848
Whose Dust Reposes at the Foot
of This Stone
They Passed From This Life Together
By Shipwreck July 19, 1850
“United in Life the Merciful
Father Took Them Together and in
Death They Were Not Divided”
Submitted: January 23, 2020, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p508590
File Size: 0.661 Megabytes

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