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This photo taken May 1, 2015, shows the burial site of Benjamin Cole, the great-great-great grandfather of actor Ben Affleck, in Laurel Grove Cemetery in Savannah, Ga. The site only has a marker for a one-year-old relative, but city records show that at least 10 other relatives are buried in the site. Cole, who died in 1871, served as the local sheriff during the Civil War. Public records show Cole and his wife owned at least one slave and Cole held at least two dozen slaves temporarily as a legal trustee for other family members. Evidence that Cole owned slaves drove Affleck to ask PBS and Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates to remove his relative from a TV program exploring Affleck's family tree.(AP Photo/Russ Bynum)

This photo taken May 1, 2015, shows the burial site of Benjamin Cole, the great-great-great grandfather of actor Ben Affleck, in Laurel Grove Cemetery in Savannah, Ga. The site only has a marker for a one-year-old relative, but city records show that at least 10 other relatives are buried in the site. Cole, who died in 1871, served as the local sheriff during the Civil War. Public records show Cole and his wife owned at least one slave and Cole held at least two dozen slaves temporarily as a legal trustee for other family members. Evidence that Cole owned slaves drove Affleck to ask PBS and Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates to remove his relative from a TV program exploring Affleck's family tree.(AP Photo/Russ Bynum)

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