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gone unnoticed; but from America to Africa, from governed to governor, from missionary to martyr is Lott Gary.
For over a score of years the little village of Carytown was the only memento of the man. But in 1850, the Rev. Eli Ball, an agent of the Southern Baptist Convention, while visiting all the Liberian Baptist Mission stations, found with difficulty the final resting place of Lott Gary. The next year a marble monument was sent out and placed over his grave.[1]
- ↑ Hervey, op. cit., p. 206.
