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The Nathanael Greene Homestead Cemetery
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The Nathanael Greene Homestead Cemetery contains seventeen identified interments and four fieldstones, with the first known Greene family burial occurring in 1786 when Margaret Greene, daughter of Jacob Greene and Margaret Greene, died. An 1859 Providence Journal article said the four fieldstones marked Revolutionary War soldiers who had been brought to the Homestead with smallpox and died there, although no other documentation substantiates that claim. General Nathanael Greene was not buried here: when he died in 1786, while living at Mulberry Grove, Georgia, with his wife Catharine and their five children, he was placed in the burial vault of John Graham, former Lieutenant Governor of the colony of Georgia; that burial site was later forgotten, his remains were found in the Graham vault in 1901 after a lengthy search, and by 1902 they were reinterred under a monument at Johnson Square in Savannah, Georgia. Catharine Greene moved her family to Dungeness on Cumberland Island, Georgia, twelve years after Nathanael Greene’s death and was buried there after her death in 1814. Those buried at the homestead cemetery include Jacob Greene; his wife Margaret Greene; their children Dr. Jabez Greene, Margaret Greene, and Jacob Varnum Greene; Patience Cox Greene, wife of Jacob Varnum Greene and later Reverend Jonathan Smith after first marrying Josiah Randall; Josiah Randall; several Randall, Smith, and Arnold children; Harris Inman; Elizabeth Margaret Greene, the last Greene resident of the Homestead; Oliver C. G. Arnold; and Theodore A. Foster, who was buried without a gravestone and was connected to the Greenville Manufacturing Company, a paper manufacturing company on Greene property leased to Randall and Steadman from 1809 to 1813.
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