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From: jann woodard <>
Subject: [ARCLEVEL] Cemetery
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 10:38:26 -0700 (PDT)

Rebecca tried to send this to the list but it wouldn't
go through.

Jann
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rebecca <>
> To:
> <>
> Cc: <>
> Date: Friday, September 15, 2000 3:25 PM
> Subject: Fw: Reynolds Family Cemetery
>
>
> >
> >Below is a post to me concerning this cemetery.
> >If anyone has information on the people buried
> >there or on the history of the immediate area,
> >please reply to James Mooney, listed in the cc.
> >Rebecca DeArmond
> >
> >My name is James Mooney and I am an archeologist
> working for Michael Baker
> >Jr., Inc., an engineering company that is
> conducting the environmental
> study
> >for the Southeast Arkansas I-69 Connector Project
> from Pine Bluff to Wilmar
> >(HWY 278).
> >
> >. . .a small historical research project I would
> like to conduct to record
> a
> >previously unrecorded cemetery in the very
> northeast corner of Cleveland
> Co.
> >
> >As part of our work we asked local individuals for
> data on all cemeteries
> >and historic and prehistoric sites so that we could
> avoid them with the new
> >highway.
> >
> >The Reynolds Cemetery was brought to my attention,
> we briefly recorded it
> >and submitted the data to the Arkansas
> Archeological Survey and will avoid
> >it. However the cemetery is in very poor shape and
> the surviving family
> >members (Owen family of Griffith Springs Road area)
> and myself would like
> to
> >prepare a brief history of the cemetery and
> individuals interred, and
> >present the data to the local libraries, historical
> societies, and state
> >agencies (we also wish to put a fence and sign
> around the cemetery).
> >I imagine the paper to be very brief, putting the
> cemetery in context, and
> >giving data on each person, their background and
> perhaps some data on the
> >local sawmill and timber camp,with a few maps and
> perhaps some photos.
> >Tonight we will present the proposal and background
> highway info to the
> >Cleveland Co. Historical Society.
> >James Mooney
> >
> >
>


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