Grace Keiper Staller
“We as an organization are forever indebted to Grace K. Staller for her incredible 13-year effort to commemorate and honor our ancestors. She overcame many obstacles and as a result we are please to report that all 56 Signers now have a plaque or cenotaph installed at an appropriate locations to commemorate their heroic sacrifice.”
Charlottesville, VA meeting March 31, 2017
Since 2004, the Society has implemented a project to honor the Signers of the Declaration by placing a plaque at the grave of each Signer to honor their memory and their great deed of signing the Declaration of Independence. The plaques are placed when permission is granted from the cemeteries involved. A bronze plaque engraved with the Signers name is permanently install at the grave site.
Grave Marker Dedication Ceremony – July 5, 2004
Today, the chair of our grave marker committee, Grace Staller, and descendants of John Morton mark the commencement of a new program by placing a DSDI plaque at the gravesite of John Morton to commemorate his Independence. It is fitting that we do so.
This is taken from the Spirit magazine of 2004 page 5
The following Signers have been honored:
| John Adams | Cenotaph, Congressional Cemetery, Washington, DC |
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| Samuel Adams | Cenotaph, Congressional Cemetery, Washington, DC |
| Josiah Bartlett | Universalist Church, Kingston, NH, Plaque at his Homestead owned by DSDI Member Ruth Albert |
| Carter Braxton | Chericoke, DSDI Plaque at Family Family Estate owned by Alice Siegel, Richmond |
| Charles Carroll of Carrolton | Cenotaph,, Congressional Cemetery, Washington, DC |
| Samuel Chase | Old St. Paul's Cemetery, Baltimore, MD |
| Abraham Clark | Rahway Cemetery, Rahway, NJ |
| George Clymer | Friends Meeting House, Trenton, NJ |
| William Ellery | Common Ground Cemetery, Newport, RI |
| Benjamin Franklin | Christ Church, Philadelphia, PA |
| Elbridge Gerry | Cenotaph, Congressional Cemetery, Washington, DC |
| John Hancock | Cenotaph, Congressional Cemetery, Washington, DC |
| Benjamin Harrison | Berkeley Plantation, Charles City, VA |
| John Hart | Old Baptist Meeting House, Hopewell, NJ |
| Joseph Hewes | Christ Church, Philadelphia, PA |
| Thomas Heyward, Jr. | St. Luke's Church, Jasper County, SC |
| William Hooper | Guilford Courthouse NMP, NC |
| Stephen Hopkins | Christ Church, Philadelphia, PA |
| Francis Hopkinson | Christ Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, PA |
| Samuel Huntington | Old Norwitchtown Cemetery, New London , CT. |
| Thomas Jefferson | Cenotaph, Congressional Cemetery, Washington, DC |
| Francis Lightfoot Lee | Tayloe Family Estate, Warsahw, VA |
| Richard Henry Lee | Burnt House Fields, Coles Point, VA |
| Francis Lewis | Trinity Chruchyard, Manhattan, NY |
| Philip Livingston | Prospect Hill Cemetery, York, PA |
| Thomas McKean | Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA |
| Arthur Middleton | Cenotaph, Congressional Cemetery, Washington, DC |
| Lewis Morris | The Cryt, St. Anne's Episcopal Churchyard, Bronx, NY |
| Robert Morris | Christ Church, Philadelphia, PA |
| John Morton | Old St. Paul's Cemetery, Chester, PA |
| Thomas Nelson, Jr. | Cenotaph, Congressional Cemetery, Washington, DC |
| William Paca | Cenotaph, Congressional Cemetery, Washington, DC |
| Robert Treat Paine | Cenotaph, Congressional Cemetery, Washington, DC |
| John Penn | Guilford Courthouse NMP, NC |
| George Read | Immanuel Episcopal Churchyard, New Castle, DE |
| Caesar Rodney | Christ Episcopal Churchyard, Dover, DE |
| George Ross | Christ Church, Philadelphia, PA |
| Edward Rutledge | St. Philip's Church, Charleston, SC |
| Benjamin Rush | Christ Church, Philadelphia. PA |
| Roger Sherman | Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT |
| James Smith | Cenotaph, Congressional Cemetery, Washington, DC |
| Richard Stockton | Cenotaph, Congressional Cemetery, Washington, DC |
| Thomas Stone | Thomas Stone National Historic Site, Port Tabacco, MD |
| George Taylor | Easton Cemetery, Easton, PA |
| Matthew Thornton | Thornton's Ferry Cemetery, Merrimcak, NH |
| William Williams | Old Cemetery, Lebanon, CT |
| James Wilson | Christ Church, Philadelphia, PA |
| John Witherspoon | Princeton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ |
| Oliver Wolcott | East Cemetery, Litchfield, CT |
| William Whipple | North Cemetery, Portsmouth, NH |
| George Wythe | St. John's Episcopal Church, Richmond, VA |
