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John R. Grieve & Hannah Banks

 

The Lone Star and Southern Watch Tower

 

Description: Tombstone Inscription Ordered.

Date: April 5 1851

Newspaper published in: Washington, TX

 

Mr. Peter Grieve, the father of the unfortunate John R. Grieve,
who shot his wife and afterwards himself, while both were laboring
under a monomania caused by the humbugs of clairvoyance &e.,
has ordered the following inscription to be placed over the grave of
the victims.

 

To the memory of
JOHN R. GRIEVE,
age 22 years,
and
HANNAH BANKS,
his wife.
age 15 years.
Both of Zanesville, Ohio
Deluded by the writings of A. J. Davis

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