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--cemetery name and location from LDS Colegrove Cemetery, McKean County, PA (private land)
Stephen Lucore and the father of John DuBois were said to have come together from France and aided the colonists in the War for Independence. Stephen came from Massachusetts to Bennett's Branch, and after marriage, lived at Mill Run; in 1832 he bought the tract on Mt. Pleasant, now owned by his eldest son Lemuel; afterward he moved to Emporium and operated a saw mill. At the age of 45, Stephen was bitten by a dog, probably rabid, for the bitten man died in agony soon thereafter. he was a class leader and exhorter in the Methodist Church and his house was the itinerant's home when the circuit ran 40 miles, from Emporium to Sabula.---Allen Rosenkrans 1899.
After Stephen was bitten by the dog he was chained to a tree and left to die. (The citizens were protecting themselves and their families because there was nothing to be done for the stricken man.)---Florence Sykes
"Died of Rabies, chained to a tree." Hist. of McKean, Elk,Cameron & Potter Co., p.779.
History of the Counties of McKean, Elk, Cameron & Potter, 1890, pp. 866-900.
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