tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20136268.post6708416425115729409..comments2024-02-08T23:48:48.397-05:00Comments on <p><big>JOHN BROWN TODAY</big></p><p><i><center>A Biographer's Blog</center></i></p>: From the Files--Covering John Brown's BurialLouis A. DeCaro, Jr. . .http://www.blogger.com/profile/10895195726778019518noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20136268.post-39151722083210125202016-12-11T12:04:36.396-05:002016-12-11T12:04:36.396-05:00Thanks Rich, I appreciate your interest. Yes, I di...Thanks Rich, I appreciate your interest. Yes, I didn't comment on the grave stone, but might do so in a separate post. My conclusion is that it is properly not a grave stone, although it became one with Brown's death. Initially, it was a memorial marker placed in Connecticut in remembrance of John Brown's grandfather, Capt. John Brown, who died during the war of rebellion against Britain. During Brown's lifetime, that stone had been replaced and set aside literally, where Brown found it when visiting Connecticut in 1857. At that time, he arranged to have it shipped to North Elba, NY, where he intended to use it as a memorial for his son Frederick, who had fallen as a homicide in Kansas the year before, in 1856. It was Brown's intention to keep the stone as a double memorial, to his grandfather and to his son, both as fallen heroes of freedom. When he failed in Virginia and was sentenced to death, he directed that his name, and the names of his sons Oliver and Watson, who died in the Harper's Ferry effort, also be inscribed on the stone. The guy who did the carving on the stone in 1859 was interviewed in the later 19th century paper and has some interesting reminiscences. Hopefully I can pull that together in the near future. Regards--LDLouis A. DeCaro, Jr. . .https://www.blogger.com/profile/10895195726778019518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20136268.post-15337067264586944292016-12-11T08:53:04.154-05:002016-12-11T08:53:04.154-05:00Wonderful to read the complete story all in one bl...Wonderful to read the complete story all in one block. Of course I have seen all the images but never looked at them in detail. Thanks for the explanations. In the viewing of the body outside the North Elba farmhouse, I assume that is the headstone in the right of the picture.Richhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16531841368322565077noreply@blogger.com