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Because I get requests for epitaphs, here is Pierce's: Pierce's epitaph is very simple; no more than birth and death dates and the fact that he served as President. The monument to Franklin Pierce is in three sections. The main obelisk on a base, and a flanking wall on either side.
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JANE M. APPLETON
WIFE OF FRANKLIN PIERCE BORN MAR. 12 1806 DIED DEC. 2 1862 |
FRANKLIN PIERCE
BORN NOV. 23, 1804 DIED OCT. 8, 1869
14TH PRESIDENT
PIERCE | THEIR CHILDREN
FRANK R. PIERCE BORN AUG. 27, 1839 DIED NOV. 14, 1843 BENJAMIN PIERCE BORN APR. 13, 1841 DIED JAN. 6, 1853 |
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...White
House Biography of President Pierce...
...The Life of Franklin Pierce, the campaign biography by Nathaniel Hawthorne...
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