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Elm Street, Ansonia, New Haven, CT

John  Beers




April 2005


JOHN BEERS
a Revolutionary Pensioner
Died
April  22  1848
aged 89.

He fell as falls the oak with years
Which storms have rudely beat upon
Upon his grave we shed our tears
To Heav'n we hope he's gone.


Orcutt, Rev. Samuel,  History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880,
   (Springfield, Massachusetts, Press of Springfield Printing Company, 1880)
page 815

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