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Pro Deo Et Patria-For God and Country LbNA #61207

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Mar 24, 2012
Location: Yantic Cemetery
City:Norwich
County:New London
State:Connecticut
Boxes:1
Planted by:CHEWY'S STARGAZERS
Found by: Bomar Bunch
Last found:Oct 31, 2012
Status:FFFFFFFFFFFFFaaa
Last edited:Mar 24, 2012
I am pulling this box for a short time to replace the stamp that is missing.
4-2-13
Recently I was sharing some historical letterboxes I found with my father. He informed me that we have a Vice President of The United States in our family tree. I was shocked, I would have thought someone would have mentioned that a long time ago. After doing some research, I found that Lafayette Sabine Foster was indeed a Vice President. He actually took Andrew Johnson's place when he became President after Abraham Lincoln's assassination. His list of his accomplishments goes on and on including Mayor of Norwich Connecticut, a member of the State House of Representatives, Speaker of the House and was a judge in the CT Supreme Court from 1870-1876. In 1880 Foster died of malaria and willed his personal library to the town of Norwich and his residence for the use of Norwich Free Academy. He is buried at Yantic cemetery where you will find his "gavel." 

Find Yantic Cemetery off Lafayette street in Norwich CT. After entering through the black iron gates, turn immediately left and then right by "King." Go around the rotary passing what looks like a white and then brown church steeple on your left. When you reach the opposite side of the rotary take a right by Robinson. Continue till you see Lafayette S. Foster on your right at the end of the drive. On his stone you will read "Pro Deo Et Patria" which is Latin for "For God and Country." Walk to the back of his stone and you will read the nicest saying i have ever read on a stone. It says " A PATRIOTIC CITZEN, A WISE COUNSELOR, AN ELOQUENT ADVOCATE, A LEARNED AND INCORRUPTIBLE JUDGE, EMINENT AND HONORED IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES, IN ALL HIS DISTINGUISHED SERVICE TO HIS COUNTRY AND TO MANKIND HE COUNTED NO DIGNITY SO HIGH AS THAT OF A DISCIPLE OF JESUS CHRIST, NO POSSESSION SO DEAR AS THE FAVOR OF GOD. From Foster's stone take a reading of 360 degrees and find E. A. Bill's tall "stump." From Bill's stump take a reading of 350 degrees to a large tree on the edge of the embankment. Be careful w small children as it is a steep drop down to the water. Nestled behind this tree under some leaves and Rocks will be Judge Lafayette's Gavel. Please rehide well, this stamp means a lot to me.