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From: John Ellingsworth <>
Subject: Clarification on Betsy Ross, Mount Moriah
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 09:26:29 -0500

This was in today's Inquirer:

"An article in Saturday's Inquirer reported incorrectly that Betsy Ross
is buried in Mount Moriah Cemetery in Cobbs Creek Park. Records indicate
her body was moved to the cemetery from a Quaker burial ground 20 years
after she died in 1836. But no remains were found under her tombstone in
1975, when workers sought to move her body before the Bicentennial.
Bones believed to be hers were discovered elsewhere in the family plot
and reinterred at the courtyard of the Betsy Ross House, Third and Arch
Streets."

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/local/corrections/13230319.htm

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Thanks,

John Ellingsworth

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