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Submitted: 2/4/14 • Approved: 2/5/14 • Last Updated: 3/26/18 • R13618-G0-S3
August 22, 1814 - May 3, 1897
82 years 8 months 11 days
Son of Jonathan & Nancy Grimes Franklin
Shares one side of a large obelisk with wife Elzabeth Miers, married May 22, 1834 in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana
"In a history of the Mitchell Church done in the late 1890's, Thomas Franklin mentioned an incident concerning John W. Franklin that applies to this cemetery. It seems That John found a very large, unique petrified palm stump in the woods, and he decided it would make a splendid headstone for his grave. He hauled the stump to Mitchell Cemetery and placed it where he planned to be buried. When he later changed his mind about the burial location he desired, he moved the stump to Holly Grove where it currently lies at the foot of Mr. Franklin's grave." Jane McManis 2000
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