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After the war, in 1784 , Sybil married a lawyer from Catskill named Edmund Ogden ; they had one child, Henry, who founded Fort Riley, Kansas. Sybil lived in Unadilla until her death in February , 1839 ; she was buried near her father in the Maple Avenue Cemetery in Patterson, New York . If you look at the accompanying photograph of her headstone, you will see that her first name is spelled "Sibbell" instead of "Sybil." This spelling error was never corrected on the grave marker. There are also many signs posted along her historic route; some of the signs spell her first name "Sibyl" instead of "Sybil." It was easy for people to misspell her first name. A statue of Sybil, sculpted by Anna Hyatt Huntington , was erected along her route near Carmel in 1961 to commemorate her ride; a smaller copy of the statue is located on the grounds of the DAR Headquarters in Washington, DC . In 1975 she was honored with a Stamp in the " Contributors To The Cause " United States Bicentennial series. . |
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