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This was the plantation and cemetery of my great7-grandparents, Peter Hack Hack (1716-1802) and Ann Custis Hack (1725-1790), and later of their son Peter Hack (1754-1844). The Hack Monument was erected in 1929 over the old cemetery by two prominent descendants of the latter Peter Hack, B. Drummond Ayres and Henrietta Dawson Ayres Sheppard (1871-1960). Mrs. Sheppard's husband, Harper Donelson Sheppard (1868-1951), founded the Hanover Shoe Company at Hanover, PA, and the Sheppards used their fortunes from this for philanthropic causes, including her hobby of genealogy.
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