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Tombstone of Civil War era girl placed in Kansas cemetery
Anna Jessie Blunt, daughter of Ben and Mary Blunt, born 1873, died 1878, was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery near Lawrence with unmarked graves for her parents. A museum director researched the Blunt family and arranged the marker near Nickerson Cowen’s grave, highlighting the area’s Black Civil War era residents and unmarked graves.
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