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Photographer: Mike Stroud
Taken: January 19, 2010
Caption: General Richard Richardson
Additional Description: Sacred
to the memory of
General Richard
Richardson
who departed this life
in September 1780
aged 76 years.
He died while a prisoner
and under the parole of
the British who permitted
him in his illness
to leave John's Island
where he was confined
to close the last moments
of his life in the bosom
of his numerous
family.
Beneath this marble
his venerated remains repose
which is erected to his memory
by James Burchill Richardson
his eldest son by his second
and last marriage.

Submitted: January 20, 2010, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p93439
File Size: 1.288 Megabytes

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