Thats great Betty,it says it all. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2002 5:26 PM Subject: [FLJACKSO] Mt Zion and Mr. D. E. Stewart The Preacher. > > This is a copy of the letter I am faxing to Judge Reynolds...Betty > > Mt Zion and Mr. D. E. Stewart, The Preacher. > > GEORGE S. REYNOLDS, III > Judicial Assistant is Sherry McHan > Phone 850 627-7780 (Gadsden) > Fax # 850 627-5323 (Gadsden) > > > Dear Judge Reynolds, > > This letter is about Mt Zion Cemetery. > > My name is Betty James Smith, from 1997 to 2001, I started and maintained the > web pages for Liberty, Gadsden and Jackson County Florida. > > We (volunteers and I) have worked very hard to get as much information on the > Internet for these and other counties. One of the many projects we work on is > the cemeteries. We go out and write down the information from headstones to > preserve that information for future generations by placing that information > on the Internet. This information then becomes free to access by all at their > Public Libraries via the Internet. > > After many years the old headstones sometimes deteriorate and all the > information might not be readable. Yet these old headstones mark the place > our ancestors are buried. > > I would not like to see any type of monument removed from a cemetery unless > a new monument is installed. > > Sometimes people put up wooden monuments that rot and decay. These also > should not be taken down unless new ones are installed in the place of the > old wooden monuments. > > Many of the cemeteries in the panhandle have been destroyed by greedy people > who want to reclaim the land to build or farm on the land. This has happened > many times, we go looking for the old cemeteries and find a field or a > housing development where the old cemetery once was located. > > I feel anyone who damages a headstone should be made to replace said > headstones out of his/her own pocket and write a letter of apology that has > to be put in all area newspapers. > > Sincerely, > Betty James Smith > March 30, 2002 > > > To View a web page for Cemeteries. > http://www.rootsweb.com/~fljackso/cemetery.htm > Cemeteries that have been destroyed or vandalize. > If you can add to this list please e-mail [email protected] > 1. Rocky Creek - African - American - County may have paved over part of this > cemetery. Then a mobile home has been put beside of it and part of the yard > is the old cemetery. Now a wood lot is being put on top of the rest of it. > This Cemetery has at lest one headstone. Last name of POOSER, first name > unknown, female. (Check Pooser Cemetery below) > > 2. Hawley's Cemetery - White - Hawley Cemetery is not under water. But was > destroyed. I talked with an elderly Sneads resident who saw the cemetery. It > was a family cemetery with an old iron fence around it. It was located on > high ground where Seminole Lodge is today. Before Seminole Lodge area was > built the area was bulldozed and stuff pushed down to the lower land. When > the boat area was dredged that's how the headstones were found. The Hawley > Cemetery probably has buildings over it now. The Hawley's at one time owned > sections 23 and 24 land. Today the State prison Dairy Farm and Seminole Lodge > is on this land. There is a Hawley Street in Sneads today named after the old > ones. Wayne N Carpenter > > 3. Compass Lake - African - American , all headstones stolen. (This happened > in Polk Co Fl and years later a house was torn down and the blocks under the > house turned out to be headstones.) > > 4. Greensboro - White, Dr Goddard was buried there and had a big beautiful > marble headstone, the owner bulldozed it away. > > 5. Miles Family Cemetery - White - all heastones were bulldozed in 1940's. > Graves were later moved to Springhill. > Judge Robert McCrary wrote letter to Phillip Farris telling him to the > fence Miles Cemetery, which was on his property and Phillip Farris was > credited with destroying the headstones. > > 6. Crutchfield Cemetery - White - all headstones were cleared and a field is > there now. One headstone has been recently put by the road CSA headstone. > > 7. The Byrd (Bird) Cemetery - White - on River Road north of Sneads was > destroyed during the late 1970s. The cemetery was bulldozed and what remains > of the iron fence that surrounded it can now be seen under a pile of rocks. > > 8. Shores Mill Cemetery - White - Section 7 Township 3 North Range 11 West, > located in the South West Quadrant of Jackson County. This is cemetery #175 > from the WPA survey. Directions from WPA: From the Atlanta and St Andrews > Bay Depot in the town of Round Lake, go north on US 231 for one mile, turn > right (northeast) on dirt road and go 1 5/10 miles to cemetery which lies 40 > feet on right (east) of road. This cemetery is apparently gone; the location > is now planted pines. The cemetery was in existence during the 1940s. > > 9. Scurlock Cemetery - White - all headstones bulldozed. > > 10. Cook and Beauchamp Family Cemetery - White - plowed under - not > headstones found. > > 11. Simpson Cemetery - White - Not found today. > > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >