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Photographer: Cindy Bullard
Taken: February 20, 2010
Caption: Richard Richardson Grave Marker
Additional Description: Richard Richardson is buried in a cemetery located about 7 miles south of this church. Marker reads:

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: February 21, 2010, by David Bullard of Seneca, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p97417
File Size: 1.225 Megabytes

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