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Grave of Revolutionary War Hero Found Destroyed, Desecrated in Blue City Graveyard
American Tribune ^ | August 15, 2025 | J.C. Sosin

Posted on 08/15/2025 8:01:22 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: Red Badger

Another demonstration of the complete futility of the Left. These are the things you do when you are losing badly with no hope of turning it around.


21 posted on 08/15/2025 8:32:06 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Annnd....TRUMP IS RIGHT AGAIN.)
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To: PrairieLady2

He fought in the Revolution and then settled in Tennessee after it was over. Consider Davey Crockett, who was born in Tennessee, served as a representative in Washington DC, then moved to Texas, where he fought at the Alamo.


22 posted on 08/15/2025 8:34:52 AM PDT by jmcenanly (You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.” ― Winston)
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To: Dr. Franklin

“Because cemeteries are isolated, it’s hard to stop this.”

Motion-sensing/activated trail cameras might help to ID the lowlifes who do this destruction.


23 posted on 08/15/2025 8:35:22 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Sacajaweau; Pelham

You’d be surprised
I’ve done it

8 foot granite cross
Two descriptive 2x3 foot stones for my parents

20,000 plus

15 years ago

Btw in the same town as this but in the antebellum cemetery on highland ave

I think this is the Lytle cemetery itself

White Alabama marble looks great but it doesn’t hold up

FWIW


24 posted on 08/15/2025 8:37:09 AM PDT by wardaddy (This forum has seen better days )
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To: Red Badger

Scum

Bags

This is the type of crap Islam does in the lands they invade/infiltrate

Heads up America


25 posted on 08/15/2025 8:38:06 AM PDT by cuz1961
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To: PrairieLady2

Revolutionary war
Lots of officers got land grants here

And they fought the hell out of the very vicious Indians

A history not taught now


26 posted on 08/15/2025 8:38:28 AM PDT by wardaddy (This forum has seen better days )
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To: ByteMercenary
But a hero from the 1770 conflict? It boggles the mind ...

Revolutionary War, Civil War... It's all the same if you are a yahoo completely ignorant of history.

27 posted on 08/15/2025 8:41:15 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt (Fascist, deplorable, and proud of it!)
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To: Bayard

No States were involved in the Revolutionary War. Heh heh. To be technical. Always trying to be of help.


28 posted on 08/15/2025 8:47:57 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: jmcenanly; PrairieLady2

Yes, Americans were on the move back then.

Andrew Jackson was born in South (or North) Carolina, but he became a Tennesseean. James K. Polk was a North Carolinian who moved to Tennessee. Thomas Hart Benton was another Tarheel who moved to Tennessee and then to Missouri where he was elected to the Senate.


29 posted on 08/15/2025 8:48:46 AM PDT by x
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To: stylecouncilor

Ping


30 posted on 08/15/2025 8:59:56 AM PDT by windcliff
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To: Red Badger

Set up some deer cameras in the nooks and crannies around the graveyards...record them, identify them, catch them...educate them regarding their severe error in judgement in the most impactful way possible...keep educating them until they throughly understand their mistake.


31 posted on 08/15/2025 9:02:31 AM PDT by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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To: PrairieLady2

Pssst, read the article, all will be revealed w/o recourse to the Magic Eight Ball!


32 posted on 08/15/2025 9:14:51 AM PDT by skepsel ("A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime", Mark Twain.)
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To: Seruzawa

You’re correct, and also it is the case that Tennessee was not a state at all until right around the formation of actual states.

In fact, the area was technically controlled by North Carolina, but Tennessee wasn’t even part of the Continental Congress.

The Overmountain men were settlers in the area which would be called the State of Tennessee.


33 posted on 08/15/2025 9:26:58 AM PDT by Bayard
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...

34 posted on 08/15/2025 9:39:37 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: PrairieLady2

There was some fighting in what is now eastern Tennessee in the Revolutionary War (I think my Revolutionary ancestor may have been involved in the campaign). But many North Carolina soldiers were given land grants in what is now Tennessee and settled there after the war.


35 posted on 08/15/2025 9:51:50 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: wardaddy

The scout leader for my son’s troop (who worked the troop until his mid 90s) lived on land that was part of a land grant to his family. The troop met there and it was a boy’s paradise
Much of the town of Franklin is from that land grant.


36 posted on 08/15/2025 10:01:36 AM PDT by Grammy
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To: x

Yes, Americans were on the move back then.

Andrew Jackson was born in South (or North) Carolina, but he became a Tennesseean. James K. Polk was a North Carolinian who moved to Tennessee. Thomas Hart Benton was another Tarheel who moved to Tennessee and then to Missouri where he was elected to the Senate.


I think they moved to TN for lower taxes!!


37 posted on 08/15/2025 10:40:00 AM PDT by bort
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To: Grammy

I am the first person outside the family to own a farm that was part of a Rev. war grant.


38 posted on 08/15/2025 11:23:58 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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To: Red Badger

Feral is the only word for the likes of the creatures that did it.

Good old ass kicking is in need for a lesson learned.


39 posted on 08/15/2025 12:01:52 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: wardaddy
Your parents were blessed to have you as their son. I understand the importance of tributes to beloved family members, perhaps it's a southern thing.

When we laid Mom to rest it was the cemetery of the church that she attended as a child; about a mile from her North Carolina childhood home. The family had not been allowed to bury anyone in the old family cemetery for about 100 years (still private property). The church cemetery is probably 50% family. Yes, southerners consider 4th cousins family. Mom is laid to rest next to her parents and baby sister who died in infancy. I think Mom's headstone is the largest there as to my brothers and I she had the kindest and wisest heart God ever handed out.

40 posted on 08/15/2025 1:52:07 PM PDT by Oorang (Politicians:-a feeble band of lowly reptiles who shun the light and who lurk in their own dens. )
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