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Honoring veterans of Revolution
SAR and DAR salute area founding fathers Everett and McCall
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A color guard made up of members from several Georgia chapters of the Sons of the American Revolution stand at attention during a musket and cannon fire salute during a grave-marking ceremony for Revolutionary War soldiers Charles McCall and John Everett at the Everett/McCall Cemetery near Metter on Saturday, May 12.
In a remote, wooded area of what is now Candler County, between the Excelsior community and the Canoochee River, two Revolutionary War veterans influential in the early government of the state of Georgia and of Bulloch County are buried among their kin.
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