Remains of KKK leader Nathan Bedford Forrest exhumed from Tennessee park

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Remains of KKK leader Nathan Bedford Forrest exhumed from Tennessee park
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‘We wanted this process to be respectful, to be something that healed divisions,’ Shelby County Commissioner Van Turner says

A “Victorian cradle” with the initials of Mr Forrest was found, leading them to the location of his remains. The graves of the general and his wife were finally found 10 feet below the park plaza. The grand wizard’s casket remained whole, but his wife’s had decayed and her remains were placed in a temporary casket.

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