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    1. [GAGEN] Another dilemma
    2. Michele Lewis
    3. I have another little dilemma I need your advice on. McDuffie is a very rural county and there are family cemeteries out on private property all over the place. The best way to find these is by knocking on doors. I was out on Luckey's Bridge Road when I stopped at a house and talked to man that told me an interesting story. He told me that approx 20 years ago, there was a man that was plowing in the field across from his house and he hit a vault. It was the grave of Henry Goings. The man stopped and then some people came out from Dearing including a pastor of a church. They removed the bones, looked at them, then put them back in the hole. The man plowed over it. This man says there were several graves out there. There was also another plot back further in that same field that is also gone. The man I talked to told me that he went to the grandfather of the current owner of McCorkle's Nursery. (The field was purchased by McCorkles Nursery shortly after this incident). The grandfather of the current owner acknowledged the presence of the plowed over cemetery and said that he would restore the cemetery and put a fence around it. It is now 20 years later, McCorkles still owns the property and the grandson is now running it. I had a man in Dearing confirm this story. He too knew about it and he is not related to the first man that I spoke to. I have been trying to locate any researchers researching the Goings family and have had no response. I do plan on interviewing more local residents to see if I can figure out who all was buried there. My question is... Should I go to McCorkles Nursery and confront them? Hugs... Michele Lewis GaGenWeb Coordinator McDuffie Co, GA *** All outgoing mail checked by Norton AntiVirus ***

    03/28/2003 01:32:31