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From: "J.Price" <>
Subject: [GAWILKIN-L] Cemetery Moving
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 09:57:02 -0800

Posted on: Wilkinson Co. Ga Query Forum
Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ga/Wilkinson/907

Surname: Lee, Young, Batcheldor
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Marsha, as a person who has ancestors scattered all over GA, including
Wilkinson Co., I feel strongly about moving any of our cemeteries. This
is a copy of the message I sent to one of your legislators, I hope it does
some good:
Subject:

Robert Brown

Date:

Thu, 23 Nov 2000 11:50:46 -0600

From:

Janis Price

To:



Mr. Brown,

I see you are the vice-chairman for the Economic Development committee.
This gives
you a terrific responsibility not only for the future, but also for the
past. As a teacher of
history and a concerned citizen with many ancestors from your area, I am
concerned
about the following item I read about McIntyre, GA, considering moving
a cemetery. I
have seen the trauma to our older citizens in this area over moving cemeteries
with their
loved ones in them. I agree with one citizen's opinion, but with a possible
suggestion.
They suggested fencing in the cemetery and putting the parking around it.
If that is not
feasible, why not build a parking garage over it, carefully choosing where
to put the
supports to keep from disturbing the graves, and starting the parking on
the second level.
The lower level would be the cemetery, now protected from the elements,
which would
allow family members to visit no matter what the weather. In our town,
a Slave cemetery
was left in care of a local hospital under the terms that they provide
the care for the
cemetery in order to get the land to build the hospital. Our dead deserve
to be honored,
not desecrated. This hospital over the years began to neglect their charge
and when time
came to expand, they built building and paved parking right over the dead.
It disgusts me.
I know that when the great judgement day comes, these wonderful people
will rise right up
through that pavement, but it's the dishonor of the act that hurts. No,
I am not African
American, but I am human, and I was taught to respect the dead by my parents.
We are
to be role models...if we allow this desecration of the McIntyre cemetery,
what will we do
next in the name of progress?

"This message is to inform everyone of the request by the Englehard
Co. in McIntyre, GA to have a cemetery moved. This cemetery has
individuals buried there who lived on the poor farm in Wilkinson Co. This
was
to be their final resting place and the Wilkinson Co. Historical Society
is hoping
that anyone who might have ancestors buried here and anyone else who might
oppose this move please contact the McIntyre City Council at 102 Railroad
Street, McIntyre, Ga 31054."

Please provide leadership, in the name of OUR ancestors, to preserve this
resting place
that was chosen by them, or their people, for their rest until the end
of time.The fact that
they had
nothing in life is an even greater reason to give them dignity in death.

A concerned Alabamian,

Janis Price

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