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Was Marshal Ney Buried in a North Carolina Grave
Cleveland North Carolina reports a mystery about Michel Ney the famed French marshal possibly buried beside a rural churchyard near Mocksville in Rowan County as Peter Stewart Ney a local schoolmaster. The tale traces Ney’s execution and a disputed 1887 grave exhumation that failed to confirm bullets or a silver plate in the skull.
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Cleveland
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Michel Ney
France
Peter Stewart Ney
Rowan County
Marshal
Paris
Ney
Napoleon
Stonewall Jackson
Robert E. Lee
Low Countries
Spain
Portugal
Italy
Poland
Elba
Louis XVIII
Waterloo
Duke of Wellington
Russia
America
Marshal Ney
Charleston
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Indiana
Cheraw
Mocksville
U. S. Army
Columbia
Piedmont
North Carolina
Davidson College
Navy
Matthew Locke
Sacher
Peter Stewart