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From: Jennifer L Saks <>
Subject: Re: [PA-PHILA-MOUNT-MORIAH-CEMETERY] Abel Morgan's remains
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 19:53:46 -0800
References: <5.0.0.25.2.20070107214632.0197df20@pop.ufl.edu><001501c73392$b2ea2680$6401a8c0@Platero>
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Dear Barbara,
Would you mind sending this to me as well? I can handle large files
with my computer. Or, if it's too large for you to send you might
try downsizing them first.
I joined this group specifically to find out what happened to Abel
Morgan's grave...he's my 7th great-grandfather. :)
Between your post below and Dorothy Hope's messages to me I've
learned more in the last couple of days than I've learned in the last
several years!!!
Thanks so very much!
Jennifer Saks


At 06:05 PM 1/8/2007, you wrote:
>Dear Dorothy,
>
>I have tried (twice) sending you photos of Rev. Morgan's burial site at Mt.
>Moriah, section 112,. But it bounced due to the size of the enclosed photo
>files.
>
>Anyway, I am certain he is there in sec. 112. There is an obelisk with the
>pastors' names of First Bapt. incl Rev,. Morgan, who was evidently a good
>friend of my ancestor, Col. Samuel Miles. (Sam'l was a Deacon at the church
>and is buried directly behind the pastors' monument)
>
>The section is a total mess, a disgrace, by the way. And I am bit by bit
>working on that, independently and with cousins.
>
>Anyway, when they knocked down the LaGrange Place church, and moved all the
>bodies to Mt. Moriah, circa 1860, they took the pastors' gravestones and put
>them inside the new church, just as you say. They wanted to preserve the
>marking stones, since some, including Rev. Morgan's were so old, even then,
>and hence part of First Bapt heritage. But the remains of all the pastors
>went under that obelisk at Mt. M.
>
>I am certian, having done original document research at Valley Forge, and
>having seen the obelisk last Memorial Day.
>
>Sorry the image of it would not come through but hoping this is helpful,
>Cheers,
>Barbara Miller

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