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To: Ezekiel

Is that somebody’s headstone? It’s pretty good.


45 posted on 02/28/2017 8:16:42 PM PST by Jim W N
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To: Jim 0216

It’s been around, just Google democrat rant tombstone. :)


54 posted on 02/28/2017 8:33:09 PM PST by Ezekiel (All who mourn(ed!) the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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To: Jim 0216; Ezekiel

Yes - Mr. Nathaniel Grigsby, died in 1890 and a Union soldier.

From the net (SNOPES!):

The short answer to the standard “Are these real?” question is that the pictures displayed above are indeed real, photographs of a marker at the grave of Nathaniel Grigsby, who died in 1890 and was interred at the Attica Cemetery in Attica, Kansas.

The longer answer involves explaining what might have driven Nathaniel Grigsby to request that the ...epitaph be placed upon his grave marker.

The explanation of Nathaniel Grigsby’s anti-Democratic antipathy requires an understanding of the circumstances of the time and place in which he lived, clues to which are provided by additional information on one side of his grave marker (a side which is not pictured above) as well as the Grigsby family history: Nathaniel Grigsby was a schoolmate and friend of Abraham Lincoln, his brother (Aaron) was married to Lincoln’s sister (Sarah), he supported Lincoln’s 1860 presidential candidacy in Missouri (an act for which his life was threatened), and he, along with four of his sons, enlisted to fight on the Union side in the Civil War.

More at the Snope site.


64 posted on 02/28/2017 9:17:53 PM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts FDR's New Deal = obama)
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