Mary Read child" (known as "pleading the belly"), and received temporary stays of execution. Read died of a violent fever while in prison. Her 28 April 1721 burial is in the records of St. Catherine's church in Jamaica. There is no record of the burial of her baby, suggesting that she may have died while pregnant. Mary Read Mary Read (1685 – 28 April 1721), also known as Mark Read, was an English pirate. She and Anne Bonny are two of the most famed female pirates of all time, and among the few women known to have been convicted of piracy during
Grace Anne Dorney Koppel Grace Anne Dorney Koppel Grace Anne Dorney Koppel (born January 8, 1941) is an American attorney and since 2006 a national spokesperson for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). She has appeared on multiple television programs in support of NHLBI's Learn More Breathe Better campaign. Married Ted Koppel on May 17, 1963. Ted and Grace Anne have four children: Andrea (political and Chinese topical journalist), Deirdre, Andrew, and Tara. In 1993 Ted and Grace Anne paid $2.7 million for 16 acres overlooking the Potomac River in Potomac, Maryland. The couple filed a lawsuit to hold their neighbors to an agreement to