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Person John Gideon Yarnell
Date 4/26/1917
Place Fort Morgan
Country United States

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John Gideon Yarnell died of accidental drowning at Fort Morgan, Baldwin County, Alabama - Fort Morgan is a historic masonry pentagonal bastion fort at the mouth of Mobile Bay, Alabama, United States. Named for Revolutionary War hero Daniel Morgan, it was built on the site of the earlier Fort Bowyer, an earthen and stockade type fortification involved in the final land battles of the War of 1812. Construction was completed in 1834 and it received its first garrison in March of the same year. Address: 110 State Highway 180, Gulf Shores, AL 36542 - Architect: Simon Bernard