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Margaret Corbin grave - Steve - 07-25-2018 An interesting Revolutionary War related news story worth sharing. Margaret Corbin, the first woman to receive a military veteran's pension was supposedly reinterred at West Point in 1926 by the DAR; but after a recent accident at the gravesite led to a forensic examination of the remains, they were determined to belong to someone else! Here's a link to the story: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/07/05/where-is-margaret-corbin-hunt-on-for-revolutionary-war-heros-grave.html