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A mirror of Baltimore and its population, an unsurpassed reference tool for genealogists, a collection of stories about Baltimore's famous and obscure, this is an unusual book. Jane B. Wilson here uses cemeteries to show us more than the graves of Baltimore's famous, infamous, everyday, and anonymous citizens and soldiers. She demonstrates how the cemeteries' creation and dissolution reflect the greed, courage, wit, loyalty, carelessness, and spirituality of Maryland's citizens.Jane Bromley Wilson is the author of 'The Very Quiet Baltimoreans: A Guide to the Historic Cemeteries and Burial Sites of Baltimore' with ISBN 9780942597400 and ISBN 0942597400.
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