(3/3) Frank died in 1881 and was buried at Montpelier. His is the only headstone in the Madison #cemetery that belongs to someone outside the family, and identifies him as 'A native of Lislee, Ireland.' (Lislee is in County Cork.)
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(3/3)Image courtesy of Montpelier, a National Trust site.
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(2/2) He was the best farmer in the world.”
No crops would have grown, however, without the skill of Montpelier’s enslaved field laborers.
Photo: Kenneth Garrett
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