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Person Details
Last Name
GREENE
First Name
JACOB, HON
Maiden
Relation
H/O MARGARET [GREENE]
Cemetery Number
CY080
Cemetery Name
GREENE HOMESTEAD BURIAL GROUND
Birth Day
0
Birth Month
Birth Year
1740c
Death Day
8
Death Month
NOV
Death Year
1808
War
REVOLUTION
Gravestone Details
Section
Lot
Map
00001
Stone Material
marble
Condition
poor
Shape
round top
Carving
no carving
Legibility
poor
Number of Graves on Stone
1
Stone Height (inches)
40
Stone Width (inches)
25
Exists?
Last Seen Date
1996
Carver
Notes/Misc Details
Notes
'His public life commenced in concert with that/of his worthy and much regreted brother, the/late Maj Gen Nathaniel Greene, was distinguished/in the Revolution of the United States as exciting/ a brilliancy to the patriotism, which secured the/Independence of the country and then and often was/marked with such distinguished probity and honors/as to gain his country's affection to the last.' [PS RI] [SAR: member of committee of safety; brother of Maj. Gen. Nathaniel Greene]
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