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- ↑ Brooklyn Daily Eagle 12 Mar 1882
- ↑ Beganski, Andre (June 15, 2021). "Former slave receives tombstone 125 years after her death". Forest Hills Times.
- ↑ "Freed slave honored with cemetery plaque".
- ↑ Sea Cliff News, 26 Sept 1886
- ↑ "Artists's rendering of bronze memorial" (PDF). The Friends of Maple Grove – via bbk12e1-cdn.myschoolcdn.com.
- ↑ "Kew-Forest Students Collaborate with Maple Grove Cemetery to Honor Formerly Enslaved Woman, Millie Tunnel". 2 July 2021.
