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Man killed in duel with Andrew Jackson given new burial site

The great, great, great grandson of Charles Dickinson placed the first scoop of dirt over his new gravesite Friday.

Dickinson was killed 204 years ago after losing a pistol duel with Andrew Jackson.

"This is the culmination of many, many years of searching, trying to prove where he was buried, finding his grave, exhuming his remains, bringing him here to Old Nashville Cemetery and re-interring him," said Charles Miller....
Read entire article at WKRN (TN)