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Body Paragraph 2 – Point #2
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Outline Example
TOPIC: Star of David Cemetery in Hopkins, Georgia
Thesis: The Star of David Welsh Cemetery is essential to remembering the Revolutionary War community of immigrants from Wales which they named Hopkins in Southeast Georgia.
Introduction paragraph: The only remaining physical part of the revolutionary war era town of Hopkins is its cemetery. What happened to the rest of the town of over 400 citizens? How is the cemetery essential to remembering the town and the people who settled there?
Body Paragraph 1 – Point #1
Town lost its timber processing plant.
Supporting Information:
1. Timber cheaper in land closer to Savannah
2. Mismanagement of plant
3. Disease in the workers
Body Paragraph 2 – Point #2
Town fire in 1782
Supporting Information:
1. Intentionally set
2. No money to rebuild
3. Cemetery was at a distance from fire
Body Paragraph 3
The information on the tombstones give a glimpse into the history of Hopkins
Supporting Information:
1. Tombstone often gives the occupation of the person: shift supervisor, farmer, seamstress.
2. The inscriptions sometimes gives their position in the community: mayor, sexton, lawyer.
Concluding Paragraph
The Star of David Cemetery allows us a brief glimpse into the small, extinct community of Hopkins, Georgia.
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