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    1. [TNHENDER] Oak Grove Cem., near Lexington
    2. David Donahue
    3. I have been checking my 1998 work and updating this cemetery. I have two questions if anyone can help. East of the church and across the road from the eastern section of Oak Grove Cemetery are three markers (and three burials) for the family of Rev. Elzie S. Garner. Is this area part of Oak Grove Cemetery, or is this a new family cemetery separate from Oak Grove? Does anyone know who is responsible for Oak Grove cemetery, say, who does one ask to get permission to bury here or to claim space for future burials. I found a conflict in one of the older rows in the eastern part of the cemetery. Three small circular "W" markers have been placed to hold space, either where there is no space at all or where the space has already been claimed by another family. The "W" space holders are in the immediate area where three running rows merge into two. The gap in the markers is caused by the row merger, not because space is unused. If the E.J., B.J. and W.T.J. markers to the east of the line of "W" space holders are replacement Jowers markers (my thought in 2003), there is no burial space here at all. Girtha Blankenship, Leonard Blankenship and either J.D. Blankenship or Lucille Blankenship are buried west of the line of "W" space holders. If the E.J., B.J., and W.T.J. markers are spaceholders (my thought in 1998), the Jowers family claimed the space first. I just want to report this so that the "W" space holders can be moved somewhere else before there is a problem. The double marker for Augusta & Laudie F. Blankenship south of the gap continues in the row east of the row with the double marker for J. B. and L. A. Alexander north of the gap (which is the last marker in its row). The rows in the eastern section of Oak Grove were not laid out, they just sort of happened. I hope to check and update the western section in the next couple of days. David

    10/29/2003 12:33:59