PHILADELPHIA — On Oct. 16, a group of women with ancestral ties to colonial America placed a marker in a Southwest Philadelphia cemetery at the second of Elizabeth Griscom Claypoole’s three graves.
They did this knowing that the woman, also known as Betsy Ross, isn’t there.
In her busy afterlife, Ross — who may or may not have sewn the first official American flag — was buried at age 84 in Society Hill in 1836.
