Marker stolen from 240-year-old veteran's grave
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Police are investigating a historic war marker stolen from a 240-year-old grave in Maine.
Scarborough police said Sunday they are still looking into the theft of a brass Society of Colonial Wars cross at the headstone of veteran John Fogg at Black Point Cemetery in Scarborough.
Fogg died Oct. 22, 1778 at age 49.
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The Portland Press Herald reports that cemetery trustees learned of the marker's disappearance during Memorial Day weekend.
Trustee Robert Hall says the marker's removal left a hole in the ground.
The headstone also marks the burial spot of Fogg's wife, Hannah, who died in 1790.