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By RAYMOND SOMA ( Rappahannock News Contributing Writer ; The gravesite of Silas Vaughn, a Confederate soldier, was recently discovered near a knoll of trees in Rappahannock County. ;• Donna Sylvester, a county resident, heard from neighbors that there was a small cemetery someiwhere on her land. For some time she kept her eyes alert for such a site on her rounds, and one .day she came across it near a group of very old trees. Nearby there were several shallow depressions in the ground. She also saw what first appeared to be a large rock in the brush and weeds. A closer inspection revealed a headstone that had fallen face down. Lifting the headstone to reset it she saw the name < “Silas Vaughn.” The only other inscription chiseled on the stone were two dates: Aug. 3, 1836 and July 12, 1921, undoubtedly Silas’s birth and

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