From the June 26, 1931, Deseret News, Salt Lake City, Utah "Lost Grave of Old Ironsides' Master found."
Philadelphia, June 26. AP.
In a tumbledown cemetery now being abandoned has been found the long forgotten grave of a man who "served his country for forty years."
The grave -- obscured for years by tangled weeds -- is that of Captain John Gwinn, former commander of "Old Ironsides" -- soon to start on her post-restoration cruise.
Most of the bodies have been exhumed from the old cemetery, but no one has claimed that of the man whose tombstone reads: "In Memory of John Gwinn, United States Navy. Born June, 1791; Died Palermo, Sicily, Sept. 1849, While in Command of United States Frigate Constitution."
Members of the Private John McArthur post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars hope to have the body removed to the national cemetery at Arlington.
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