"How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the University of Virginia.
~ Thomas Jefferson ~












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