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From: "Lois Mauk" <>
Subject: [CEMETERY-L] Restoration of St. Peter's Cemetery
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 20:06:36 -0500

"Cemetery holds key to history of region"
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
10/31/1999

NEW GASCONY, ARKANSAS -- St. Peter's Cemetery near Pine Bluff is now on the
National Register of Historic Places and will be dedicated at 3:30 p.m. on
Sunday, Nov. 7. Two time capsules will be buried -- one to be opened in 25
years, the other in 50 years.

The first recorded burial here was in 1827; the most recent in 1927.

Before restoration, weeds had grown thigh-high, vines choked the pecan
trees, the tombstones had been broken by tractors and bush hogs. At one
time a farmer, without the permission of the church, used the fenced-in area
to pen his hogs.

Full story at:
http://www.ardemgaz.com:80/today/ark/B12cem31.htm

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