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A new grave for Black pioneer, Monte Cristo's 'largest man'
EVERETT — On a sunny morning last week, a small group watched fresh dirt poured around a new gravestone at the Evergreen Funeral Home & Cemetery.
Ben Lewis
B. July 1854 Africa
D. Aug. 1902 Robe, WA
Lewis lived with his family in Granite Falls until he died from an accidental gunshot wound. He left behind a wife and daughter and was buried in Everett.
He was a 32nd-degree Mason who belonged to a Masonic lodge in Seattle. At 6-foot-4, he was known as “the largest man in the Monte Cristo region,” an epithet printed on his new marker reads.
https://www.heraldnet.com/news/a-new-grave-for-black-pioneer-monte-cristos-largest-man/