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Rev. Jean Francois Rivet IN554 |
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 Picture Courtesy of Jim Kuntz
 Picture Courtesy of Jim Kuntz
REV. JEAN FRANCOIS RIVET
1757 - 1804
First Headmaster of
Jefferson Academy
Later Vincennes University
Monument Front:
Sacred to the Memory of
JEAN FRANCOIS RIVET, V.G. Born at Grosmorne, Island of Martinique, 1757. Died at Vincennes, Indiana, February, 26, 1804.
Monument Right:
"Defunctus Adhuc Loquitur": "He Being Dead Yet Speaketh."; Hebrews XI, 4 Quoted in his last will by Father Rivet.
Monument Left:
I ask that I may be buried in the midst of the people confided to me, that is, near the center of the cemetery.
Rear of Monument:
To the memory of Indiana's first public school teacher. This monument is respectfully dedicated.
Dedicated by the Rivet Circle of the Daughters of Isabella, Vincennes, Ind. Dedicated Feb. 25, 1944.
Vigo, St., center of cemetery next to Old Cathedral, Vincennes, Knox County Indiana
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