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Note: Charles B. Howland has the Navy cutlass of George B. Mott. I found a very interesting notation in Google under "George Burt Mott." I never heard a word about this in any of the family tales? The INTERNATIONAL CEMETERY Of INCHEON (South Korea) by Doctor Jean-Marie Thi�baud founder of the International Academy of Genealogy For the opening to the international trade of the port of Incheon in 1883, it was necessary to think a place for the foreigners died on the ground of Korea. It is known under the name of international cemetery (or cemetery for the foreigners) of Chemulpo (1). March 30, 1914, undoubtedly because of work of the port or the increasing urbanization, one transferred the tombs to Buksung-dong, Chung-gu. Seriously damaged by the troops of North on June 25, 1950 during the first year of the war of Korea, the cemetery remained with the abandonment during several years. Then, May 25, 1965 decided to move it once again, in the place which is his today, 53, Cheonghak-dong, Yeonsu-gu. For a long time, it does not have any more a guard and its grids are hermetically closed by a transverse iron bar and a solid lock insensitive with the desire of the traveller to more know some about these foreigners who were among the first to press the ground of the kingdom of Choson and to leave their life there. By seeing the state of the tombs, the disappearance of the alleys under layers of humuses and vegetation weighed down by the rain ti�dasse beginning May, the thickness of the ship's boys and especially of dust which cover the stones and the steles and make quasi impossible the reading of their inscriptions Russian, American, French, German, Chinese, etc, one includes/understands quickly that this place now is given up, delivered to itself and the corrosion of the lapse of memory, wilder than that which cannot be prevented from corroding the stones. Here, much of small anonymous white crosses to cover with the bodies whose field artillery erased until the names, there the tomb stones of two priests hung French missionnaires coast at coast with a carcass of vault (2) and starting with the sacro-holy Ici formula rests, often anchors of navy to sign with sure blows of the burials of sailors. These are the last which perhaps make assemble the greatest puffs of emotion: often they are young sailors died in roads of Incheon or whereas their boats approached the coasts of Korea. Dates close to death let suppose that some of them were victims of epidemics or accidents which have occurred on their buildings. And solidarity between sailors obliges, the monuments were high thanks to the generosity of their companions, as several still readable inscriptions point out it. Before giving up some as of theirs out of remote ground, they had with c?ur to raise steles decorated with anchors and ropes to them, the anchors to show where the race of these children of the sea had abruptly stopped and the ropes to point out the bonds which link the sailors, whatever their nationalities. Names and nationalities of the quoted boats: RNI Marco Polo (Italy) Manjour (Empire of Russia) USS F.S. Baltimore (the USA) USS Enterprise (the USA) To seize this tended cord that the last generations do not seem to have had the idea to slip into the files of the country, it appeared essential to us to raise the rare names which remain and which constitute as many connect connecting Korea to the rest of the world: (1) Of the old name of Incheon, not to confuse with the subway station of the same name in the south-west of the metropolis of Seoul. (2) the most imposing monument of the cemetery but it is today impossible to know the name of that which set it up. Abbreviations O: n�(e) +: d�c�d�(e) The texts between hooks are biographical notes added by the author. INSCRIPTIONS: George Burt Mott O in New York (the USA) 3.3.1836, + in Korea 10.07.1883.
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