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Old Photograph Robert Burns Mausoleum Dumfries Scotland
Old photograph of Robert Burns Mausoleum in St. Michael's churchyard in Dumfries, Scotland. On the morning of 21st of July, 1796, Robert Burns died in Dumfries, at the age of 37. The funeral took place on Monday the 25th of July 1796, the day that his son Maxwell was born. He was at first buried in the far corner of St Michael's Churchyard in Dumfries; a simple " slab of freestone " was erected as his gravestone by Jean Armour, which some felt insulting to his memory. His body was eventually moved to its final location in the same cemetery, the Burns Mausoleum, in September 1815. The body of his widow Jean Armour was buried with his in 1834.
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