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Custom calls me to 't: What custom wills, in all things should we do't, The dust on antique time would lie unswept, And mountainous error be too highly heap't For truth to o'erpeer.
Brand Blanshard
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Brand Blanshard
Age: 95 †
Born: 1892
Born: August 27
Died: 1987
Died: November 19
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Fredericksburg
Ohio
Percy Brand Blanshard
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