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Show Urate of a Malhaselall. Oermnnlown aa a district haa a rr-taln rr-taln renown for the Inuievlty ot Ita native, and the "oldest Inhabltut" nf the settlement east of the Wbaa-hlckon Wbaa-hlckon I a patriarch. Indeed. A tonb-tone tonb-tone In the old Concord burjlng ground, on Oermnutown avenue, akive Washington luue, however, make the more modern .Melhiiielib'a pale kite) Insignificance. The Inscription onllil marble slab recite that the psnvm burled wa "ged XII year," whlcg 1 one year older than the biblical patriarch patri-arch at the time ot hi otceaae. That the carved figure are erroneoai la evident, and the generally anlpted theory la that the stonecutter chicled the (Inures 8ii In mistake for C and when this waa detected eleverljailug-ged eleverljailug-ged up the first and torn caretd the nun, her after the six. Tlmf wore away the plug, an that todfV thla tombstone claim fur hla wbufie beneath be-neath a record for Innmlty nler yet equaled. |