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Grasswire2

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14. from your user name, I think you might be interested to know...
Sat Feb 13, 2021, 05:48 PM
Feb 2021

...that the story I'm looking for is about my third great grandmother who grew up to be the lady of the Plum Island NY lighthouse. Her husband was one of two (in succession) keepers of that light for 43 years ending in 1901. Eleanor King Beebe Wetmore.

The story is about her meeting Lafayette when he visited NY in his year-long tour of the States. Her father was a Rev. War Major, and Lafayette -- as he went about the country -- met with Rev. War veterans. From the report, Lafayette patted her on the head, and blessed her. She was somewhere about twelve years old at the time.

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