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This is the account of Barnum Kinsey's grave marker that his son makes
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after they leave Manchester County and he dies.
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This is at the bottom of 374.
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Matthew stayed up all the night before he was buried--
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[this is Kinsey's son]
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putting his father's history on a wooden tombstone.
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He began with his father's name on the first line,
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and on the next he put the years of the father's coming and going,
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then all of the things he knew his father had been.
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[And it then lists this whole set of things.]
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The boy filled up the whole piece of wood,
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and at the end of the last line he put a period.