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Alfred Summers Johnson, Sr.

Alfred Summers Johnson, Sr.

Male 1835 - 1891  (55 years)

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  1. 1.  Alfred Summers Johnson, Sr.Alfred Summers Johnson, Sr. was born 14 Sep 1835, Chambers County, Alabama, USA (son of Willis F. Johnson and Nancy Reddick Greer); died 23 Aug 1891, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States; was buried Aug 1891, Vernal, Uintah, Utah Territory, United States.

    Notes:

    First Sunday School superintendent of Ashley Town organized 22 February 1880 (Builders of Uintah, DUP, pg. 10).

    Alfred married Deborah Elizabeth Hardy 21 May 1856, Salt Lake, Salt Lake, Utah, USA. Deborah (daughter of Joseph Henry Hardy and Lucy Thorndyke Blanden) was born 25 May 1842, Hancock, Waldo, Maine, USA; died 20 Feb 1936, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States; was buried 23 Feb 1936, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States. [Group Sheet]


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Willis F. Johnson was born 1 May 1806, North Carolina, USA (son of Snellen Johnson and Mary Foreman); died 20 Dec 1853, Brenham, Washington, Texas, USA; was buried 22 Dec 1853, DeWitt, Texas, USA.

    Notes:

    Lafayette was the county seat of Chambers County, Alabama from 1833 to present. Originally known as Chambersville, name changed to Lafayette in 1835. Incorporated in 1835. Post office established in 1875.

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    Cemetery notes and/or description:
    Description: An old cemetery - the later portion (German) is tended, the older Anglo-Saxon side is overgrown. About 2.5 miles ENE of Greenvine on a gravel road. There are 55 to 60 grave spaces indicated by brick or rock surrounds or rock markers with no legible information on them.

    The following article is excerpted from the Historical Marker application, written circa 1991:

    Bethlehem Cemetery in south Washington County, Texas, is a cemetery containing persons and their family members who were among the very first Anglo-American settlers to Stephen F. Austin's colony, the "old three hundred". The Allcorn (sometimes spelled Alcorn) family, who have family members in this cemetery, were the second Anglo family to arrive in present Washington County spending the last night of 1821 by a creek they subsequently named with dawn, "New Year's Creek".

    Bethlehem Cemetery is located on five and three-fourths acres of the original Josiah Lester League in Washington County, a headright league granted to Lester by the Mexican government and later conveyed by him to Erwin Brown. It was Erwin Brown, in turn, who conveyed the five and three-fourths acre parcel on August 13, 1851, to the trustees of the Bethlehem Academy for the purpose of a settlement school and house of worship for the Baptist and Methodist denominations. The first trustees receiving the deed were James C. Crenshaw, James Lane, Leander Burns, Willis Johnson, and I. M. Harris.

    The site soon also became a "burial place for the neighborhood", as cited in an officially recorded agreement signed April 14, 1873, between the Bethlehem trustees and one J. E. Gray for erecting a fence around the cemetery. The first burial for which there is an extant marker was that of Susan J. Burdett, age 39, who died in 1852 (though Henry Burdett, age about 65, may have died earlier; his tombstone gives only his age and not date of death).

    Little Rufus Mallets, one of the earliest burials with an extant headstone, appears on the 1860 mortality census (1859 deaths): he died of the "flux" in November, 1859, at the age of one. Also on that mortality census were members of the Armstrong, Crenshaw, Barnhill, Woods, Bowers and Sanders families--- most of them infants, who may have been buried without headstones in many cases. It is a sad commentary on the infant mortality rate of the day to read that census.

    Bethlehem Cemetery is now a beautiful, spacious, old (and new) cemetery, located on the very top of a high rolling hill that overlooks the Mill Creek valley, home to the earliest of the Anglo-Texans settlers. Some of these earliest of settlers belonged within one lifetime to the Republic of Mexico, the Republic of Texas, the United States of America, and the Confederate States of America-and some a second time to the United States of America.

    Today the cemetery is in a remarkably attractive condition. Several plots are enclosed still by their original wrought iron fences, standing guard after all these years. The feeling of the cemetery is one of quiet, rural peace and endurance. The cemetery was restored by a group of citizens banded together at nearby Greenvine Lutheran Church March 6, 1988. Donations were taken at this first meeting and one man hired to rid the site of the major obstructions. Then citizens literally lined up shoulder to shoulder and cut their way into the jungle with chain saws. A couple of years prior to that some persons crawling through the brambles, briars, and brush, and snake holes, seeking an ancestor's tombstone, were trapped and got out only by tearing up clothes and skin-the older part of the cemetery had gotten to that state. After the chain saw crews' attack, men, women and children followed up against the brush, weeds, and trash, carefully working around the old tombstones and iron fences. Anyone viewing the cemetery today will have a hard time imagining what it was like three years ago.

    The Bethlehem Cemetery group makes this application to the state of Texas for a historical marker for following reasons: this is, no doubt one of the more historical cemeteries of the state, both for its location and for the pioneers buried in it; these pioneers gave so much to the Republic and to the state that they are deserving of respect and perpetual remembrance; and a historical marker will contribute toward protecting this site from future neglect and any future vandalism. Present day and future citizens need to know who built this state and where its origins lie; and they need occasionally to stop and visit these peoples graves in this lovely place. Bethlehem Cemetery is today part of what remains of colonial Texas.

    Source: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&GSln=Doerntge&GSiman=1&GScid=2383&CRid=2383&pt=Bethlehem%20Cemetery&

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    Wharton County, Texas (979) 532-2381
    https://coclerk.co.wharton.tx.us/external/User/Login.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2fexternal%2fIndex.aspx
    No records of Willis Johnson from 1845-1900. Researched 10/14/2013

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    Yorktown Public Library - 103 West Main, Yorktown, Texas 78164
    (361) 564-3232
    yplbeth@yahoo.com
    ***Nothing as far back as 1850s***

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    Yorktown Historical Museum
    144 West Main
    Yorktown, TX 78164
    (361) 564-9115

    Has old tax records that haven't been indexed

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    Milam County Courthouse and all county records were destroyed by fire in April 1874.

    Willis married Nancy Reddick Greer Abt 1825. Nancy (daughter of John D. Greer and Sarah "Sallie" Hunt) was born 9 Aug 1805, Hillsboro, Jasper, Georgia, USA; died 9 Oct 1878, Fairview, Lincoln, Wyoming, USA; was buried 9 Oct 1878, Fairview, Lincoln, Wyoming, USA. [Group Sheet]


  2. 3.  Nancy Reddick GreerNancy Reddick Greer was born 9 Aug 1805, Hillsboro, Jasper, Georgia, USA (daughter of John D. Greer and Sarah "Sallie" Hunt); died 9 Oct 1878, Fairview, Lincoln, Wyoming, USA; was buried 9 Oct 1878, Fairview, Lincoln, Wyoming, USA.

    Notes:

    James McGaw was an early LDS missionary in Texas in 1848 to the Dallas area of Texas. In 1851 he may have been in Grimes County (borders Washington County) and may have converted the Sprouses. Washington Lafayette Jolley was the caption of the company that left Texas in 1854 to Utah.

    Edward W. East mentions Preston Thomas as a missionary in Port Sullivan, Texas and he KEEP A JOURNAL. Preston Thomas was a captain of a wagon train leaving Texas in 1856.

    An 1848 missionary companion of James McGaw was William Martindale.

    See: http://www.ldschurchnewsarchive.com/articles/19911/First-LDS-bishop-in-Idaho-a-pioneer-for-gospels-sake.html


    Preston Thomas's March 14, 1849 letter to Orson Hyde mentions that a number of interesting fact:
    - Preston Thomas and William Martindale meet James McGaw at Weston, Missouri (on the Mississippi River)
    - Preston Thomas visits is brother Daniel Claiborne Thomas at his home in Burton, Texas (8 miles from Brenham)
    - Martindale and McGaw baptized 5 persons east of Burton in the Brazos River (FIND NAMES).
    - Preston Thomas baptized a young man in Washington County before going to the settlements on the Guadalupe River to preach.


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    Seth M. Blair Journal Entry September 12, 1854 "Sept. 12th Br Me today baptized Jas. Johnson bro of Br S.M. Johnson who was converted by the Lord through my preaching -

    13th Today blessed 9 children and baptized 5 - Sarah East (RB) James Sharp, Nancy Johnson and Margarett and Adeline Jones - thus the Lord has blessed his servant and now raised up a church of 24 members with the 9 children blessed no 34 members of the church in this place some of whom are enjoying the gifts etc - for which I pray the Lord to accept the grattitude of his servants _____ to _____ increase the work." (pages 45-46)


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    Washington Lafayette Jolley and John Osler were probably the first Mormon missionaries that the Johnson family encountered in 1852(per "Reminiscences of E. W. East).

    Henry G. Moyle was probably another early missionary.

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    According to the Johnson-Greer-Davis Connection book "After John’s death Nancy was back with her clan ready to strike the trail when the call came from President Brigham Young to go to southern Idaho and northern Utah." John Sprouse died 27 Oct 1858 and on the 27th of June 1860 Nancy is still in the 6th Ward in SLC according to the 1860 census. We don't have record of Nancy north of SLC until the 1870 census.

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    1851 Missionary James McGaw arrives in Texas

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    1852 John Brown, Preston Thomas, Washington Jolley and William Camp are called to serve missions in Texas.

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    1854 William C. Martindale arrived in Texas.

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    "The Community of Laketown has always maintained a belief in the value of formal education. The first organized school was held in 1869, and conducted by Nancy Greer Johnson, three months out of the year. Later, around 1876, a bright, well educated young man, Robert Spence, came to Laketown and began teaching."

    Source: Laketown Master Plan December 2007, page 7,http://laketownutah.com/uploads/master_plan.pdf

    Children:
    1. Sarah Ann Johnson was born 9 Aug 1827, Hillsboro, Jasper, Georgia, USA; died 28 Apr 1916, Owensville, Robertson, Texas, USA; was buried , Owensville Cemetery, Owensville, Robertson, Texas, USA.
    2. Snellen Marion "Cub" Johnson was born 27 Oct 1827, Hillsboro, Jasper, Georgia, USA; died 10 Jun 1900, Lonetree, Uinta, Wyoming, USA; was buried 12 Jun 1900, Johnson Cemetery, Uinta County, Wyoming, USA.
    3. Mary Willmirth Johnson was born Abt 1832, Chambers County, Alabama, USA; died 21 Jun 1855, Kansas, USA; was buried Jun 1855, Mormon Grove, Kansas, United States.
    4. 1. Alfred Summers Johnson, Sr. was born 14 Sep 1835, Chambers County, Alabama, USA; died 23 Aug 1891, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States; was buried Aug 1891, Vernal, Uintah, Utah Territory, United States.
    5. James A Johnson was born 13 Oct 1837, Hillsboro, Jasper, Georgia, USA; died 1874, Laketown, Rich, Utah, USA; was buried 1874, Laketown, Rich, Utah, USA.
    6. Hanna Victoria Johnson was born 13 Oct 1839, Autauga County, Alabama, USA; died 13 Apr 1903, Manassa, Conejos, Colorado, USA; was buried Apr 1903, Manassa, Conejos, Colorado, USA.
    7. Nancy Willmirth Johnson was born 22 Nov 1841, San Augustine, San Augustine, Texas, USA; died 13 Mar 1902, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States; was buried 15 Mar 1902, Maeser Fairview Cemetery, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States.
    8. John Lycurgus Johnson was born 25 Aug 1844, Brenham, Washington, Texas, USA; died 29 Jun 1908, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States; was buried 1 Jul 1908, Rockpoint Cemetery, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States.
    9. Willis Leonidas Johnson was born 1846, San Augustine, San Augustine, Texas, USA; was buried 1856.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  Snellen Johnson was born Oct 1772, Hillsboro, Jasper, Georgia, USA (son of Curtis Johnson and Elizabeth Snelling); died 3 Dec 1842, Hillsboro, Jasper, Georgia, USA.

    Notes:

    The following are references to Snelling Johnson in the Spotsylvania County Records 1721-1800:

    Page 483 - Jany. 28, 1796. James Nelson of Louisa Co. to Joseph Nelson of Spots. Co. £50 curr. 50 a. in Spots. Co., etc., etc. John Carter, Zachariah x Wharton, Snelling x Johnston. April 5, 1796.



    The 1790 and 1800 census records for Virginia were destroyed by fire during the War of 1812 with the British.

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    Hannah Greer (daughter of John D. Greer and older sister to Nancy Reddick Greer) and her husband Thomas Flew Nolan are living in Montecello, Jasper, Georgia (1820 census) in 1820 which is 9 miles from Hillsboro.

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    GRANTOR GRANTEE DATE RECORDED
    Irwin, Benjamin Snelling Johnson 2/10/1818
    Merritt, Thomas Snellen Johnson 5/5/1823

    Source: http://georgiaarchives.org/what_do_we_have/online_indexes/pdi/RG179/179-01-006.htm

    New court case for Snellen

    Ferrell, Cuthbert and Amos Jones vs. Snellen Johnson
    Johnson, Snellen and Alfred Johnson vs. Benjamin Barron
    Johnson, Snellen vs. Benjamin Marshall
    Johnson, Snellen and Alfred Johnson vs. Isaac C.W.T. McKissack
    Johnson, Snellen vs. Hezekiah W. Scovill
    Johnson, Snellen, Alfred Johnson and Reuben Dawkins
    Johnson, Willis, Alfred Johnson, Snellen Johnson, Jeptha Clements and John Grier vs. James Whitfield
    Moore, Aaron vs. Snellen Johnson

    Johnson, Alfred, Snelling Johnson, Administrator and LaFayette Johnson vs. W.C. Clement
    Johnson, Snelling vs. John H. Brantley for use of John Greer Johnson, Snelling vs. Hamilton Brown, Peyton Gwyn and James Gwyn
    Johnson, Snelling vs. Charles Kelsey, Alfred M. Hobby and Charles McIntire
    Johnson, Snelling and Jarrel Beasley vs. George Stephens,
    Steven Stephens, Administrator and William Stephens, Administrator
    Johnson, Snelling vs. John T.C. Towns

    Johnston, Snelling vs. James Cowen and Thomas B. Erwin
    Merrit, Thomas vs. Snelling Johnston.


    From this website: http://georgiaarchives.org/what_do_we_have/online_indexes/pdi/RG179/179-01-001.htm

    Snellen married Mary Foreman. Mary (daughter of Isaac Foreman and Sarah F Lucas) was born 5 Nov 1778, South Carolina, Britsh Colonial, USA; died 9 Apr 1856, Hillsboro, Jasper, Georgia, USA. [Group Sheet]


  2. 5.  Mary Foreman was born 5 Nov 1778, South Carolina, Britsh Colonial, USA (daughter of Isaac Foreman and Sarah F Lucas); died 9 Apr 1856, Hillsboro, Jasper, Georgia, USA.
    Children:
    1. 2. Willis F. Johnson was born 1 May 1806, North Carolina, USA; died 20 Dec 1853, Brenham, Washington, Texas, USA; was buried 22 Dec 1853, DeWitt, Texas, USA.
    2. Alfred Johnson was born 1807, South Carolina, USA; died 8 Jan 1874, Hillsboro, Jasper, Georgia, USA.

  3. 6.  John D. Greer was born 19 Jun 1761, Mount Pleasant, Adams, Pennsylvania, USA (son of Thomas Greer and Jane Dunlap, son of Thomas Greer and Jane Dunlap); died 2 Feb 1843, Troup County, Georgia, USA.

    John married Sarah "Sallie" Hunt 14 Feb 1782, Edgefield District, South Carolina, USA. Sarah (daughter of Nathaniel Hunt and Nancy Reddick, daughter of Nathaniel Hunt and Nancy Reddick) was born 26 Feb 1763, Edgefield, Edgefield, South Carolina, USA; died 8 Aug 1835, Troup County, Georgia, USA. [Group Sheet]


  4. 7.  Sarah "Sallie" Hunt was born 26 Feb 1763, Edgefield, Edgefield, South Carolina, USA (daughter of Nathaniel Hunt and Nancy Reddick, daughter of Nathaniel Hunt and Nancy Reddick); died 8 Aug 1835, Troup County, Georgia, USA.
    Children:
    1. Riddick Greer was born 11 Dec 1782, Hancock County, Georgia, USA; died 20 Oct 1802.
    2. Thomas Greer was born 30 Dec 1784, Washington County, Georgia, USA; died 17 Aug 1850, Jasper County, Georgia, USA.
    3. Jane Greer was born 13 Mar 1787, Hancock County, Georgia, USA; died 1852, Georgia, USA.
    4. James Alexander Greer was born 1 Oct 1789, Hancock County, Georgia, USA; died 11 Oct 1840, Montgomery County, Texas, USA.
    5. Gilbert Dunlap Greer was born 29 Oct 1792, Hancock County, Georgia, USA; died 23 Mar 1852, Coweta County, Georgia, USA.
    6. Sarah Hunt Greer was born 10 Jan 1794, Hancock County, Georgia, USA; died 4 Aug 1825.
    7. John Cox Greer was born 4 Oct 1796, Hancock County, Georgia, USA; died 8 Mar 1804.
    8. Hannah Greer was born 13 May 1798, Hancock County, Georgia, USA; died 1814.
    9. William D Greer was born 18 Jun 1800, Warren County, Georgia, USA; died 22 Dec 1852.
    10. Nathaniel Hunt Greer was born 26 Oct 1802, Hancock County, Georgia, USA; died 24 Jun 1855, Little Nemaha, Kansas Territory, USA.
    11. 3. Nancy Reddick Greer was born 9 Aug 1805, Hillsboro, Jasper, Georgia, USA; died 9 Oct 1878, Fairview, Lincoln, Wyoming, USA; was buried 9 Oct 1878, Fairview, Lincoln, Wyoming, USA.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  Curtis Johnson was born 1730, Virginia, United States (son of Jonathan Johnson Sr. and Priscilla Snelling); died 15 Oct 1799, Washington, Virginia, United States.

    Curtis married Elizabeth Snelling Abt. 1763, Washington, Virginia, United States. Elizabeth (daughter of Mr. Snelling and Mrs. Snelling) was born 1747, Botetourt, Virginia, United States; died 1824, Washington, Virginia, United States. [Group Sheet]


  2. 9.  Elizabeth Snelling was born 1747, Botetourt, Virginia, United States (daughter of Mr. Snelling and Mrs. Snelling); died 1824, Washington, Virginia, United States.
    Children:
    1. 4. Snellen Johnson was born Oct 1772, Hillsboro, Jasper, Georgia, USA; died 3 Dec 1842, Hillsboro, Jasper, Georgia, USA.

  3. 10.  Isaac Foreman was born 1752, South Carolina, USA (son of George Foreman and Christie Lynn Saling); died 7 Feb 1833, Autauga County, Alabama, USA.

    Notes:

    Issac Foreman awarded cash entry patent 4 September for 39.89 acres of land in Chambers County, Alabama.

    Document number: 14732
    Statutory reference: 3 Stat. 566
    Act or Treaty: 24 April 1820
    Land description: 1 SWNW St. Stephens No 19N 17E 35


    South Carolina, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1790-1890 about Isaac Foreman
    Name: Isaac Foreman
    State: SC
    County: Ninety-sixth District
    Township: To Township Listed
    Year: 1779
    Database: SC Early Census Index



    U.S. Census Reconstructed Records, 1660-1820 about Isaac Foreman
    Name: Isaac Foreman
    Gender: M (Male)
    State: South Carolina
    County: Ninety Six District
    Town: Turkey Creek and Savannah River
    Residence Year: 1780
    Household Remarks: He is on "A List of Petit-Jury Men and Jury Men in Civil Causes" from "Between Turkey Creek & Savannah River."

    Isaac married Sarah F Lucas 1777, South Carolina, USA. Sarah was born 20 Aug 1753, Edgefield, Edgefield, South Carolina, USA. [Group Sheet]


  4. 11.  Sarah F Lucas was born 20 Aug 1753, Edgefield, Edgefield, South Carolina, USA.
    Children:
    1. Sarah Foreman was born Abt 1770, Halifax, Halifax, North Carolina, USA; died 21 Oct 1834, York County, South Carolina, USA.
    2. Miranda Foreman was born Abt 1775.
    3. 5. Mary Foreman was born 5 Nov 1778, South Carolina, Britsh Colonial, USA; died 9 Apr 1856, Hillsboro, Jasper, Georgia, USA.
    4. Jacob Foreman was born Abt 1780, Autagua, Alabama, USA; died Bef 1833.
    5. Elizabeth Foreman was born Abt 1782, North Carolina, USA; died 10 Jan 1863, Benton, Lowndes, Alabama, USA.
    6. Edmund Johnny Foreman was born 1784, Tennessee, USA; died 1869, Texas, USA.
    7. Nancy Foreman was born 1785, Alabama, USA; died 28 Dec 1828, Alabama, USA.
    8. George Foreman was born 1786, Autagua, Alabama, USA; died 22 Apr 1834, Autauga County, Alabama, USA.
    9. Anna Louise Foreman was born 1788, Edgefield, Edgefield, South Carolina, USA; died 1 Mar 1852, Spalding County, Georgia, USA.
    10. Amie Foreman was born 1793, Autagua, Alabama, USA; died 1852, Spalding County, Georgia, USA.
    11. Mirina Foreman was born Abt 1805, Edgefield County, South Carolina, USA; died Bef 1833, Autauga County, Alabama, USA.

  5. 12.  Thomas Greer was born 14 Oct 1731, Mountmell, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom (son of Thomas Greer and Rachel Sara Morton); died 11 Nov 1793, Richmond, Georgia, United States.

    Thomas married Jane Dunlap. Jane (daughter of Gilbert Dunlap and Agnes Greer) was born 1735, Greene, Oconee, Georgia, United States; died 1793, Greene, Oconee, Georgia, United States. [Group Sheet]


  6. 13.  Jane Dunlap was born 1735, Greene, Oconee, Georgia, United States (daughter of Gilbert Dunlap and Agnes Greer); died 1793, Greene, Oconee, Georgia, United States.
    Children:
    1. 6. John D. Greer was born 19 Jun 1761, Mount Pleasant, Adams, Pennsylvania, USA; died 2 Feb 1843, Troup County, Georgia, USA.

  7. 14.  Nathaniel Hunt was born Abt. 1740, Georga, United States (son of Ralph Hunt and Lucinda Lucrecy); died Abt. 1825.

    Nathaniel married Nancy Reddick. Nancy (daughter of Abraham Reddic and Living) was born Abt. 1742, Georga, United States; died Deceased. [Group Sheet]


  8. 15.  Nancy Reddick was born Abt. 1742, Georga, United States (daughter of Abraham Reddic and Living); died Deceased.
    Children:
    1. 7. Sarah "Sallie" Hunt was born 26 Feb 1763, Edgefield, Edgefield, South Carolina, USA; died 8 Aug 1835, Troup County, Georgia, USA.


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