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    1. Re: [MSITAWAM-L] Introduction
    2. Hi, My name is La Darla Walker Keith. We just returned from a trip to Tenn & MS to put up some gravestones. My great,great grandfather and great,great grandmother are buried in Itawamba county, just south of Tremore, in what I have seen called the Evans-Gilmore Cemetery. It is due south of Tremore on the east side of the road on the side of a hill. About a 1/4 mile or 1/2 mile up a dim dirt road from the secondary road. Anyway we placed the new stones in front of the existing markers, his was only a field stone. Their names are Richard B. dickinson and Mary Whitley Dickinson. The cemetery is completely overgrown with at least one fallen tree over graves. It appears deer hunters have a stand within the graveyard and have been standing it upright and hunting from it. One of the chain link fences around the Gilmore graves has been damaged in the last couple of yers and part of it is missing. The chicken wire fence that was around my ancestor's grave is pretty much gone (but I think the over 100 year age caused it to deteriorate. Is there any society which see to such things as old cemeteries? When we were there in 1989, there were even flowers on the graves and it was in good shape then. I think we counted over 2 dozen, perhaps more marked graves. Thanks, La Darla

    06/07/2001 08:09:59