May 16

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Significant events that happened (or will happen) on May 16.

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Deaths

  • 1773Dabney Carr died at Charlottesville of bilious fever. According to family tradition, in Thomas Jefferson’s absence Carr was buried at Shadwell, but upon his return Jefferson had a graveyard prepared at Monticello and reinterred Carr there at a spot the two had previously chosen, which served thereafter as the Jefferson family cemetery and Jefferson's own burial spot.

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