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Unknown [LeRoi' Williams' funeral]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09587.126 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: Roanoke, Virginia Type: Photograph Date: circa October 1943 Pagination: 1 photograph : b&w ; 11.6 x 11.3 cm. Order a Copy

Three men standing over LeRoi's casket, draped with an American flag. There are other mourners in the background. Photograph is the same as GLC09587.121.

Williams, LeRoi S. (1919-1943)

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