I am from the community where the relocation camp in Monticello was. My grandparents Sykes and josephene Griffin always lived in that comunity. I have heard my grandmother speak of the "Killin" camp the one located at the fairgrounds many times she always said the prisoners were Italians and Germans. She spoke more of the Germans how that they would be cleaning the ditches on Hwy 35 east. I have been all over the camp when I was a boy there were a few buildings left. They had a church that was partially still standing and also the smokestack I believe from the kitchen. There were some prisoners who died their and were buried but when the war was over I believe they removed their bodies( I believe that is what my grandmother said.) She also had alot of silverware stamped U.S.A. she got from the camp when the war was over. The camp at Jerome was a Japanese camp. Mr. Ernest Ellington had a part in that camp and the land where the camp was his family now owns. There is a monumen! t erected their stating it was a Japanese camp and there also was one at Rowerr. When the war was over my grandfather Sykes Griffin helped tair down some of the houses at Rowher and Jerome and built a house in the Enon comunity across from the old school. Michael Griffith

Michael, I tend to agree with your version of the POW camps. My dad help build the camp at Jerome and he said it was for Japenese prisoners. C.L. Jones >From: MICHAEL GRIFFITH <michael_griffith@sbcglobal.net> >Reply-To: ARDREW-L@rootsweb.com >To: ARDREW-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [ARDREW] Prisin Camp at Monticello >Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 18:27:24 -0800 (PST) > >I am from the community where the relocation camp in Monticello was. My >grandparents Sykes and josephene Griffin always lived in that comunity. I >have heard my grandmother speak of the "Killin" camp the one located at the >fairgrounds many times she always said the prisoners were Italians and >Germans. She spoke more of the Germans how that they would be cleaning the >ditches on Hwy 35 east. I have been all over the camp when I was a boy >there were a few buildings left. They had a church that was partially still >standing and also the smokestack I believe from the kitchen. There were >some prisoners who died their and were buried but when the war was over I >believe they removed their bodies( I believe that is what my grandmother >said.) She also had alot of silverware stamped U.S.A. she got from the camp >when the war was over. The camp at Jerome was a Japanese camp. Mr. Ernest >Ellington had a part in that camp and the land where the camp was his >family now owns. There is a monumen! > t erected > their stating it was a Japanese camp and there also was one at Rowerr. >When the war was over my grandfather Sykes Griffin helped tair down some of >the houses at Rowher and Jerome and built a house in the Enon comunity >across from the old school. > >Michael Griffith >