Obituary of Historical Figure, Writing prompt: Moses Grier

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LaGrange Daily News, Obituaries, April 12th, 1993



Moses Grier died peacefully in his sleep at The Colored People’s Old Folks Home in LaGrange, Georgia, on Friday, 09 April 1993.  Moses was born in 1907 to a poor sharecropper on the same farm in Walton County, Georgia, that his grandpappy had been born a slave on.  Moses, like his father before him, considered himself  fortunate to be born a free man. 


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Writing prompt for obituary of historical figure: Moses Grier, character from "Red Clay and Roses"
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