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SCRAPS FROM AN OLD WASHINGTON CEMETERY.*
Copied by Herbert P. Gerald, Washlngton. D. C.
About 1897 I noted the following items in an old Presbyterian Graveyard in Georgetown, D. C., which was then practically abandoned and neglected, and overgrown with weeds and brush; and soon after this the bodies and tombstones were removed and the graveyard as such passed out of existence.
It was at the northeast corner of 34th Street and Volta Place, the church and yard occupying practically the entire block; and the space is leveled off and used as a municipal play ground. The epitaphs showed that most of the deaths occurred between
22, 1921, I noted the following part
When I revisited the site on Sept. 22, 1921, I noted the following part of an epigraph on a heavy broken marble slab recently dug out near the northeast corner of the yard:
"In the vault beneath are deposited
the remains of
.... INIAN MAGRUDER
.... 3rd March, 1823, Aged 53
..... , noblest work of God
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