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Joel Chandler Harris died on July 3, 1908, of acute nephritis and was buried in Westview Cemetery in Atlanta. Obituary writers were not exaggerating when they eulogized this celebrated middle Georgia writer as "the most beloved man in America."

Courtesy of Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University.

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