After Sunday's meeting, I did some archive work on the Web and found that Patient Number One, George S. Barrows, and his brother and sister all appear to have died without children. This makes it highly unlikely we'll connect with living relatives who know much about him. I still have to confirm this, though. And I haven't given up hope of finding archival tracings of George.
On the good news side, I had time on my lunch break to zip up to North Burial Ground to see whether George has a gravestone. I found it, and snapped the above picture with my cell phone. The cheap camera and the afternoon sun behind the east-facing stone account for the crummy quality, but there he is.
-Paul Parker
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