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To the Memory of Mary Jemison, Whose home during more than seventy years of a life of strange vicissitude was among the Senecas upon the banks of this river, and whose history, inseparately connected with that of this valley has caused her to become known as "The White Woman of the Genesee."
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The remains of "The White Woman" were removed from the Buffalo Creek Reservation and reinterred at this place with appropriate ceremonies, on the 7th day of March, 1871.
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[A copy of the inscription on the first tombstone erected]
In Memory of The White Woman, Mary Jemison, Daughter of Thomas Jemison and Jane Irwin. Born on the ocean, between Ireland and Phila., in 1742 or 8. Taken captive at Marsh Creek, Pa. in 1755, carried down the Ohio, adopted into an Indian family, In 1759 removed to Genesee River. Was naturalized in 1817. Removed to this place in 1831, and having survived two husbands and five children, leaving three still alive; she died Sept. 19, 1838 aged about ninety one years, having a few weeks before expressed a hope of pardon through Jesus Christ. "The council of the Lord, that shall stand."
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