The Archive · 1930

BIRTHPLACE

Washington, Apr. 29.

As part of the plan to restore the estate of Wakefield, Virginia, the} birth-place of George Washington, the remains of over 30 members of the Washington family, all senior to George Washington, have been removed from their original graves and placed in a now vault at Wakefield, They will lie beside the body! of John Washington, the first of the family to enter Ameri Lawrence, Captain John gustus Washington, respectively the great-grandfather, grandfather and father of the Father of the Republic.

When the restoration has been Jcompleted the estate will be handed to the National Government as a public park—Reuter.

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