The resting place of Marshal Ney?

 French researchers for the French television series Histoire au Scalpel have finally debunked the (admittedly unlikely) theory that Marshal Ney  miraculously escaped execution and can be identified with Peter Stuart Ney, a schoolteacher from Rowan County, North Carolina, who died in 1846.

After a lot of unproductive digging on the site of Ney's tomb at the Third Creek Presbyterian Churchyard in July 2022, the French team were finally able to secure a DNA sample for testing.  They now report a negative conclusion.

French researchers conclude that Napoleon’s famed Marshal Ney is not the Peter Stuart Ney buried in Rowan Co. church cemetery (wbtv.com)

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