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Photographer: Alan Edelson
Taken: March 7, 2009
Caption: George Coryell’s Grave Plaque
Additional Description: Here lies the body of George Coryell
Who died February 18th, 1850, aged 91 years.
The Poet has told his character,
"A wit's a feather, a chief a rod,
an honest man the noblest work of God".

A brother member with Gn. Washington of Lodge No. 22.

The last survivor of the six men who laid the father of our country in his tomb.
Submitted: March 8, 2009, by Alan Edelson of Union Twsp., New Jersey.
Database Locator Identification Number: p55312
File Size: 2.198 Megabytes

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