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    <abstract id="aspace_e797fd59549a9e63fddb9872c8e474bc">Brief sketch of the founding of the town of Ripley, West Virginia, its early history and settlers; cemetery readings of the Old Ripley Cemetery copied by the Historic Records Survey, 1940; and a copy of the deed from John Swan, Jr., to Jacob Starcher for the land on which Ripley was settled.</abstract>
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    <geogname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82216107" source="lcsh">Ripley (W. Va.)</geogname>
    <subject source="local">Cemeteries -- Old Ripley Cemetery</subject>
    <subject source="local">Cemeteries and cemetery readings</subject>
    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85052074" source="lcsh">Frontier and pioneer life</subject>
    <persname source="ingest">Starcher, Jacob.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Swan, John Jr.</persname>
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