I had the pleasure of going to the S.C. Genealogical Society Conference in Columbia, SC this past weekend. It was a pleasure, losing 3rd gear was not, but that is another more expensive story. So coming down 95 and 301 I touched such places where Poythresses were and are. For the first time, north of Wilson on 301 I noticed Poythress Road. So I got to thinking and when I came home I found more Poythress Roads: Gloria B. Poythress 252.237.2711 (B) 1994 03-31-2001 1917-B Poythress Road 252.291.9166 (H) 03-09-1998 (Reappointment) Wilson, NC 27893 happens to be on the Board of Adjustment there not to mention being an event coordinator. RED CLAY RAMBLERS - bluegrass, Sat., Oct. 1 & Sun., Oct. 2, Camp Pow Wow, Poythress Road, Chatham Country. 7 p.m. $20/$10 forv12 and under. [I assume North Carolina] Mr. Willie T. Gates, of Poythress Road, Newnan, died Nov. 29, 1998 at Newnan Hospital. Mr. Gates was the husband of Mrs. Leona Gates. Funeral arrangements will be announced later. Sellers-Smith Funeral Home Inc., Newnan. and Mr. Brison "Brad" Evans, 28, of Poythress Road in Newnan passed away Sept. 8, 1997 at Peachtree Regional Hospital. Born Feb. 28, 1969, Mr. Evans was the son of the late Charlie A. Evans. He was preceded in death by a brother, Charlie Albert Evans Jr. Memorial services were held Sept. 11 at Sellers-Smith Funeral Home with the Rev. Marion H. Price Sr. officiating, assisted by the Rev. J.C. Strickland and minister Mary Nell Burden. ON MOTION of Commissioner McGuffey, seconded by Commissioner Schlumper, passing unanimously, the Board voted to approve the minutes from Regular Meeting held on March 20, 2001 with clarification that the county does not need to obtain right-of-way on Poythress Road, and approved the minutes from their Called Meeting held on March 26, 2001. {Coweta County, Ga.} 15. Final Approval of Glen Ridge, Phase Two: Consideration of a request by Musigny, Inc. for final approval of Glen Ridge, Phase Two, consisting of four (4) lots on approximately 19.9 acres, off SR #1534 (Poythress Road) in Baldwin Township {Chatham County, N.C.} I guess you had to be there. Craig Craig R. Scott, CGRS Willow Bend Books 65 East Main Street Westminster, MD 21157-5026 [email protected] www.WillowBendBooks.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Diana Diamond" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 2:54 PM Subject: Virginia Graveyards > Interesting, Maynard. > > The article you posted late last week about a Prince William record book > posted on Ebay reminded me of this article . Old grave stones are another > possible source of new genealogical material in Virginia. > > Who knows? Some of those missing Poythress links may turn up yet. > > Diana > > > Reclaiming Forgotten Family Graveyards > Counties Are Mapping Obscure Cemeteries In Bid to Shield Them > > By Michael Amon > Washington Post Staff Writer > Sunday, July 8, 2001; Page C01 > > > In fast-growing Prince William County, the sleep of the dead is disturbed > just as the sleep of the living -- by the din of construction. > > For years, residents believe, bulldozers making way for fancy town houses > have paved over family graveyards and slave burial sites. The county, like > much of Virginia and Maryland, is full of centuries-old cemeteries -- many > of which are almost undetectable to developers. > > "On just about any development of any size, there's bound to be a cemetery > within a stone's throw that needs to be protected," said Don Wilson, a > historian at the Bull Run Regional Library near Manassas. > > But Prince William officials face a problem common across the expanding > Washington region: They don't know where the graves are. So the county is > taking measures to keep cemeteries away from the cement. Over the next year, > it will search for and document every graveyard in the county -- from the > large Manassas city cemetery to those as small as a couple of fieldstones > that date to the Revolutionary War. > > The effort is similar to others across the Washington region. In Loudoun > County, private historians at the Thomas Balch Library in Leesburg have been > documenting graveyards and supplying the information to the county for 18 > months. Fairfax completed a study of its cemeteries in 1995. And this year, > Maryland embarked upon a project to identify and map each of the state's > 6,000 to 9,000 burial sites. > > "The new people who come in are just plain ignorant of the graveyards," said > Kristin Kraske, president of the Coalition to Protect Maryland Burial Sites > Inc. "Nobody has mapped them out or anything. You don't see them until you > hit them, and that has happened." > > In Prince William, the new cemetery information will update county maps that > the planning office uses when reviewing potential developments. Current maps > display about 255 cemeteries, but they're not accurate, said county planner > Robert Bainbridge. > > "The map will protect people from violating Virginia law," Bainbridge said. > It is a misdemeanor to intentionally disturb a cemetery in Virginia. > > Ron Turner, the local historian hired to conduct the survey, predicted that > he would find at least 150 forgotten cemeteries before next spring. With the > help of satellites, Turner will pinpoint the longitude and latitude of every > graveyard he finds. > > Not knowing where the cemeteries are has been a problem for developers. > > In 1985, the Potomac Mills shopping center had to build around two small > family burial grounds. Mills Corp., which built and operates the mall, > preserves and maintains the graveyards of the Pattersons, who were > 19th-century dairy farmers, and the Nashes, a family that lived in the > Dumfries District since the turn of the century. Each is isolated from the > shopping center by a fence. > > Construction crews at Baltimore-Washington International Airport once turned > up a potter's field. > > And several graves have been found on what will soon become one of Prince > William's largest subdivisions -- the $3 billion, 2,500-home Southbridge > development on the Cherry Hill Peninsula. > > One of them is Dunnington Cemetery. Typical of many old family plots, > Dunnington is little more than a few depressions in the ground surrounded by > vegetation and forest and covered with periwinkle, a flower often planted on > graves before the 20th century. > > It is in the middle of what planners hope will become a Reston-style town > center with more than 3.7 million square feet of commercial office space. > Southbridge developer Mike Anderson said he is going to try to make the > graveyard a prominent feature of the development. > > "When all is said and done, you'd rather not have a cemetery on the land > because it adds a constraint, but you can also use it to make a connection > between the past and the future," Anderson said. > > Not far from Dunnington is Tebbsdale Cemetery, where Revolutionary War Col. > Willoughby Tebbs was buried in 1803. The graveyard is named on county maps, > but when Anderson began surveying the land, he found it on the other side of > a creek, about a half-mile from its purported location. > > Cemetery documentation efforts are common in the South, where family plots > often outnumber church and city cemeteries. The issue is particularly keen > in Virginia, said Brian Conley, a Fairfax historian who documented > cemeteries. > ***** > In 1623, the Virginia House of Burgesses passed a law requiring large > plantations to have cemeteries, eliminating the need for large community and > church plots, Conley said. "That same idea was passed on to smaller > plantations and family farms," Conley said. "The model followed into the > early 20th century." > ******* > In Maryland, family cemeteries have rubbed shoulders with development and > expansion. > > In May, the King and White families in Howard County persuaded public > officials not to take land from their 172-year-old family cemetery to widen > a road. > > The King-White cemetery has 29 headstones, but the family believes there are > many unmarked graves and slaves who might have been buried closer to the > road, said Sylvia Crutchfield, a White descendant who lives in Alexandria. > > In the next year, the families will have an archaeologist survey the land > and identify all the graves. > > And many Kings and Whites want the family cemetery to be their own final > resting place. > > "I will be buried there myself," Crutchfield said. "These are my ancestors. > This is my family. This land belonged to us for centuries. It's something > that you know is permanent." > > > > © 2001 The Washington Post Company > > > ==== POYTHRESS Mailing List ==== > The Poythress Web Page is at http://www1.minn.net/~atims/ > > > > >