This is indeed good news. Ron Parks ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 2:05 AM Subject: FL-WFGS Digest, Vol 3, Issue 75 > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. The Old Muscogee Cemetery (Jerry Merritt) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 14:57:01 -0500 > From: Jerry Merritt <[email protected]> > Subject: [FL-WFGS] The Old Muscogee Cemetery > To: "Escambia, FL List" <[email protected]>, WFGS > <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > I got a call from Helen Allen, one of the people who helped clear and > survey the Old Muscogee Cemetery several years ago. She related to me > that the N. W. Florida Water Management Dist has bought a lot of land > along the Perdido River and the cemetery is part of that purchase. This > is good news. They have already repaired the road to the cemetery that > was washed out by Ivan and left that way by the county. They have also > cleared the cemetery, built a road down to the Old Black Cemetery and > will clear that this weekend. They intend to put up a fence and a gate > and enforce the rules about trespassing there after dark. > > In a related item, there will be an Honor Guard Service at the cemetery > this Saturday to place flags on the grave of veterans. If you have any > ancestors there who are vets, you can call Delton Boswell at cell > 554-2883 to find the time of the ceremony and to let him know of any > vets that you are aware of. > > Perhaps late this fall when it gets cool again, we can get a group > together to go back to the cemetery and lay out our survey grid again > and complete the survey we started before Ivan interrupted us. We have > mapped one quarter of the cemetery already and with enough people could > complete the survey in one or two days. > > We don't want to be working up there now. The crew clearing the area > killed a 5 foot rattlesnake last week. Where there is one, there are > bound to be others. > > Jerry Merritt.