Part Three and last: On the advise of Richard Jernigan, my uncle Bill Kersey and two of Walter Turners children met at an attorney office to sign affidavits that thier father and other known relatives were in Rushing Cemetery. It was hard for them to remember all of the people that were buried there. They themselves were in thier late seventies and eighties. They did thier best to remember and did sign an affidavit. However it did not stop the subdivision. One day when the bulldoziers arrived to dig up the the cemetery , the lady that lived in the first house that was built, stood in front of the bulldozier and refused to let them dig, because she knew that the cemetery was there and how big it was. She was there almost from the beginning. That gave us reprieve for a while. We went back to Milton to get a copy of the recorded cemetery deed. Much to our amazement there was no deed, or any record of it anywhere. As we were sent from place to place , someone had called ahead and alerted them that we were on our way . We were told that there was no cemetery named Rushing Cemetery. The State Of Florida sent a State Man to look at the cemetery, while the bulldoziers were rev-ving up thier engines. We were blocking them from bulldozing up the cemetery. The All Mighty State Guy told them " there's no cemetery there, dig it up !" He also informed us that we were trespassing on private land and we would be arrested if we didn't leave. I had State document to the Rights of Engress and Egress to the cemetery and also had all of the needed State Statutes. Not worth the paper thier written on ( not in my case anyway ) I also had a copy from a book that was done on Confederate Veterans by the WPA. It had Rushing Cemetery listed. I got that copy from the Milton Library. The book no longer exists at that library, unless they have since replaced it ( doubtful). Richard Jernigan was able to establish that it was a cemetery and the land owners and my uncle agreed on an 80 ' X 80 ' plot to put a memoral there. My Uncle died about four years ago and I went to his house and got the tombstone that had been broken in half. I took it and got it fixed, and returned it to it's little plot of land where it began. One of the home owners tried to stop me, but I told him you will have to kill me to stop me ! I don't believe that my great grandfather is where I put his tombstone, but it is back and that is where it will stay. Everything else that we had put there ( a bronze plack with all of the names on it ) has been taken off and done away with. The neighbors throw yard debris on the plot of land. My poor ancestors are probably under someone's porch. I have since tried to get it listed as an abandoned cemetery. The State say's " it doesn't exist ". I 'd be willing to bet Evan that you will never ask me another question !! Thanks for letting me tell the story about Ben's traveling tombstone. It helps for others to know that these people lived. They were so violated in death. I have documents and pictures to back up my story. Doris