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years. The grounds are partially enclosed by a wall and fence and remain beautifully landscaped.

On March 19, 1923, Mary Corbit Warner died and by her Will she requested that she be buried in the “Friends Burial Grounds in Odessa.” Presumably she meant the Corbit Family Burial Grounds adjacent to the Odessa Friends Meeting House. Also, Mary Corbit Warner by her Will bequeathed a sum in trust which she designated was to be used for care of the family burial grounds.

Subsequently, these funds, with the appropriate approval of the Delaware Court, were turned over to a Delaware Corporation organized in 1950 and known as the “Corbit Graveyard Association.”

This was an organization composed solely of living direct descendants of William Corbit, most of whom wanted to some day be buried at the Corbit Family Burial Grounds. The original directors of this corporation were the following: Mary Curtis Crowe, Louise Lea Nowland, Ann Corbit Reese, Anna Gibson Corbit (wife of John Cowgill Corbit, a direct descendant of William Corbit) and Dorothy Curtis Purinton.

These same persons, members of the Corbit Graveyard Association, having personally made substabtial additions to

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