The Great Grave dedication
ceremony was attended by 3000 people. A speech was given by Catherine
Sager Pringle (5th woman from left in photo), one of the Sager children
who had survived when her adopted parents, the Whitmans' were killed
50 years before. Survivors who attended the event included the Kimballs',
the Sagers', and Mary Osborn Delaney.
The Great Grave in
1903
Six years after its dedication,
the Great Grave as it appeared in 1903. The Whitman-Eells Church was
built near to this location.
The Great Grave and
Whitman-Eells Memorial Church
Photograph
of unknown date, presumably beginning of 20th Century. The Whitman-Eells
Memorial Congregational Church, built in 1896, is in the background.
