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New gravestones honor Revolutionary War dead in Peabody, Mass.

PEABODY, Mass. --Four Revolutionary War heroes finally have proper grave markers even though their actual graves were lost to the march of progress when a portion of a cemetery was paved over for a roadway.

The four minutemen -- Samuel Cook Jr., Benjamin Deland Jr., Ebenezer Goldthwaite and George Southwick Jr. -- grabbed their muskets and marched toward Concord, only to be killed by the retreating British troops on the first day of the war, April 19, 1775. On Saturday, they were honored in a headstone dedication ceremony at the Old South Burying Ground in Peabody.
"I was really proud," said Janet Briggs Lettich, 55, who attended the ceremony to honor her ancestor, Goldthwaite. "They walked away from their families and their plows and did what they had to do."
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