Don't We at Least Owe Caesar Rodney the Burial He Wanted?
Although he was sick with "asthma, gout and facial cancer," Caesar Rodney rode his horse all night in a storm from Dover to Philadelphia to break a tie vote in the 2nd Continental Congress to declare independence from England.
We owe him our very nation. Yet I was surprised to learn that although he wanted to be buried with a monument over his grave, he lacked the funds to do it. No one knows where he is buried, although it's believed he is buried in an unmarked grave on his Byfield farm.
With the modern technology that exists today, why would finding his grave and giving him the burial he wanted prove an insuperable difficulty?
I believe the State of Delaware ought to take up that task and give him the burial he wanted. I consider it a debt that is important for us to pay.
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We owe him our very nation. Yet I was surprised to learn that although he wanted to be buried with a monument over his grave, he lacked the funds to do it. No one knows where he is buried, although it's believed he is buried in an unmarked grave on his Byfield farm.
With the modern technology that exists today, why would finding his grave and giving him the burial he wanted prove an insuperable difficulty?
I believe the State of Delaware ought to take up that task and give him the burial he wanted. I consider it a debt that is important for us to pay.
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