Camden Kids Provide Key Visual

My preliminary research into the life and military service of Lt. Col. Henry Franklin Chew of the Twelfth New Jersey Infantry (pictured here) turned up two death dates — 1910 and 1918. A Google search turned up a wonderful .kml file: When viewed in Google Earth, the planet spins and zooms into the Camden, N.J., area to show Harleigh Cemetery. Many Union veterans are buried there, including Chew. The location of his grave site is marked, and a photo of the marker clearly establishes the year of his death as 1918. The cemetery is also the final resting place of poet Walt Whitman.

The data was collected by children connected with Hopeworks.Thanks, kids!

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