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Photographer: Chris Crookston vis Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0 DEED)
Taken: August 20, 2011
Caption: "Pirate graves" in Thyatira Presbyterian Cemetery
Additional Description: It is unknown who, if anyone, lies beneath these headstones. One legend has it that they gave up pirating to become farmers, only to be discovered and subsequently hanged. Their remains were allowed to be buried in the churchyard only if their headstones bore the skull and crossbones but no names, according to legend. However, no evidence has been uncovered (as yet) supporting that legend nor have any clues been found as to whose graves those are.
Submitted: December 1, 2023, by Duane and Tracy Marsteller of Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
Database Locator Identification Number: p763102
File Size: 0.209 Megabytes

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