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    1. Miscellaneous Files - Calloway County - Winchester Cemetery -TVA Grave Relocation Project
    2. Bill Utterback
    3. My friends - I have completed the conversion of another of the files which I have on old 5 inch floppies, which I call "Miscellaneous Files". I collected these years ago when computers were still in their infancy. The file which is now ready is the Winchester Cemetery in Calloway County. This record comes from the Tennessee Valley Authority archives and is related to the Kentucky Dam and Lake Project, which required the relocation of some 20,000 graves in KY and TN in the late 1930's and early 1940's, due to the flooding of the area once the project was completed. The Winchester Cemetery did not have any grave removals, as it was just above the minimum height required to avoid relocation of graves. However, the original access road would be inundated, which required a study to determine how to reroute the access road to keep it above the water line. As a result, the TVA surveyed this cemetery in 1941, and the results are shown in this file. There were 72 known graves, with about 50 of that 72 bearing identification, or ID was obtained from a relative(the names of whom are shown, and the relationship to the deceased). This is a very old cemetery, with the earliest death date shown for Eglantine Knight in 1835. Surnames in this file include: Winchester, Dunn, Knight, Butler, McCuiston, Valentine, Kimbro, Vinson, Gregory, Hutson, Garrison, Henry, McCormick and Eldridge. Subscribers to the JP and Calloway lists can obtain this file by sending a request directly to me. Please request the "Winchester File". The file is available in rich text format (RTF) and Adobe Acrobat PDF format. The file will be sent as a rich text format attachment to an e-mail message unless PDF is requested. The file is not available in plain text format and cannot be sent in the body of an e-mail message. The complete file will be sent, as time constraints do not permit me to go into the file and extract data about individual names. We will continue, from time to time, with these grave relocation reports. -B ====================================================================

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