Patriot’s Grave Discovered - The True Citizen

Patriot’s Grave Discovered - The True Citizen

The headstone of John Davies discovered by Jeff Palmer of Waynesboro. Shown here (l) before and (r), after restoration. Last year, my good friend Jeff Palmer sent me a photograph of a tomb stone that he uncovered in his front yard in Barrett Plantation. I was already aware of an African- American cemetery on Jeff’s property with some grave markers for persons born before the Civil War, a signifi- cant find. The marker photographed, however, was …