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- ↑ "If Stones Could Speak: A Walk Through Roseland Cemetery, Part 2". September 9, 2021.
- ↑ "Cemeteries | City of Monticello".
- ↑ https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/4771#!
- ↑ "025 Historic Monticello's Moonlight Cemetery Walk".
- 1 2 Allardice, Bruce S. (March 2, 2008). Confederate Colonels: A Biographical Register. University of Missouri Press. ISBN 978-0-8262-6648-4 – via Google Books.
- 1 2 Spencer, Thomas E. (March 2, 1998). Where They're Buried: A Directory Containing More Than Twenty Thousand Names of Notable Persons Buried in American Cemeteries, with Listings of Many Prominent People who Were Cremated. Genealogical Publishing Com. ISBN 978-0-8063-4823-0 – via Google Books.
- ↑ "Local Hero Remembered in Monticello Memorial". WTXL ABC 27 Tallahassee News. June 23, 2016.
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