Editing Ethan Allen (section)

==Disappearance of his grave marker==
Sometime in the early 1850s, the original plaque marking Allen's grave disappeared; its original text was preserved by early war historian [[Benson John Lossing|Benson Lossing]] in the 1840s. The inscription read:<ref>{{cite web| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=kfM_AAAAYAAJ&q=The+Pictorial+Field-Book+of+the+Revolution+Vol1| title = The Pictorial Field-book of the Revolution: Or, Illustrations, by ..., Volume 1 p. 161| last1 = Lossing| first1 = Benson John| year = 1855}}</ref>

{{quote box|width=40%|align=center|qalign=center|style=font-size:100%|The<br />Corporeal part<br />of<br />General Ethan Allen<br />rests beneath this stone<br />The 12th Day of Feb., 1789<br />Aged 50 years.<br />His spirit tried the mercies of his God,<br />in whom he alone believed and strongly trusted<ref name="HolbrookGraveText">[[#Holbrook|Holbrook]], p. 259.  Holbrook notes that the age is incorrect; Allen was actually 51.</ref>}}

In 1858, the Vermont Legislature authorized the placement of a 42-foot (13 m) column of Vermont [[granite]] in the cemetery, with the following inscription:<ref name="Holbrook259">[[#Holbrook|Holbrook]], p. 259</ref>

{{quote box|width=40%|align=center|qalign=center|style=font-size:100%|Vermont to Ethan Allen<br /> Born in Litchfield Ct 10th Jan AD 1737<br />Died in Burlington Vt 12th Feb AD 1789<br />and buried near the site of this monument}}
[[File:EthanAllenGrave.JPG|thumb|upright|right|Monument to Allen in Green Mount Cemetery]]

The exact location within the cemetery of his remains is unknown.<ref name="Jellison333">[[#Jellison|Jellison]], p. 333</ref> While there is a vault beneath the 1858 [[cenotaph]], it contains a [[time capsule]] from the time of the monument's erection.<ref>[[#MonumentCommittee|Vermont Committee on Ethan Allen Monument]], p. 5</ref> According to the official 1858 report on the Ethan Allen monument, the funeral of Ethan Allen had taken place within Green Mount Cemetery; however the reason his remains had not been found at his memorial plaque {tablet} was because "...&nbsp;by the fact that some twenty years since, the dead of the Allen family had been arranged in a square enclosed by stone posts and chains, by Herman Allen, the nephew of Ethan Allen, and this tablet, then ''lying upon a dilapidated wall of brick work'', was ''reconstructed with cut stone work'', and it is presumed that, as a matter of convenience in giving a regular form to the enclosure, was ''removed some feet from its original position''&nbsp;..."<ref>{{cite web| url = https://archive.org/stream/reportofcommitte00verm#page/4/mode/2up| title = 'Report of the committee under the act providing for the erection of a monument over the grave of Ethan Allen'. p. 5 1858 by Vermont Committee on Ethan Allen Monument; Pomeroy, John Norton, 1828–1885; Marsh, George Perkins, 1801–1882; Vermont General Assembly. Senate| year = 1858 |location=Montpelier, Vt. | publisher = E. P. Walton, printer}}</ref> It was thus apparent it was actually a cenotaph tomb reconstruction that Benson Lossing sketched and presumed to be the actual tomb of Ethan Allen in his 1850 ''The Pictorial Field-book of the Revolution''.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=kfM_AAAAYAAJ&q=The+Pictorial+Field-Book+of+the+Revolution+Vol1| title = The Pictorial Field-book of the Revolution: Or, Illustrations, by ..., Volume 1 |at=Sketch of Allen tomb by Lossing. p. 161 | last1 = Lossing| first1 = Benson John| year = 1855}}</ref>