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The names of almost half of those buried have been discovered and historians hope to be able to find the names of everyone laid to rest in that spot.
One stone that has been uncovered reads "Amelia Brown, 1819, Aged 26 years” with this epitaph: “Whosoever lives and believeth in me, though we be dead, yet shall we live.”
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