Use this as a guide on how to submit documentation (see page 4 of application). Marker Subject:

Lt. Presley N. O'Bannon, USMC	Name of person completing application: Joe Smith
FACTS	SOURCES
List each important fact that is relevant to this marker subject. All places, dates, sites, names of people involved, etc. must be documented.	Each fact must be verified with notation of the source material. Include a copy of the page from each document that was used.
First American to raise U.S. flag on foreign soil.	Acts of Kentucky, 1920, p. 734.
At Battle of Derne on shores of Tripoli, April 27, 1805.	The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, vol. 18, no. 52, pp. 73-76 and vol. 54, pp. 21-23.
Led attack that overcame Barbary Coast pirates who were holding American seamen for ransom.	The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, vol. 18, no. 54, pp. 21-23.
Served in state legislature 1812, 1817, 1820-21,	The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, vol. 18, no. 52, pp. 480, 776. The Story of Logan County by Edward Coffman, p. 113.
and Senate 1824-26.	Collins's Historical Sketches of Kentucky, p. 480.
Died in 1850.	Information on gravestone in Frankfort Cemetery.

 

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