>From the Johnson City Press, Tuesday, April 11, 2000 Gravestones vandalized at city cemetery "It became a sadder day than usual at Oak Hill Cemetery Monday after Peter Naher, graveyard manager, arrived at work to discover an astonishing amount of vandalism done to over 50 gravestones there. Several grave markers at Oak Hill Cemetery of Johnson City, 205 Whitney St., were overturned an damaged sometime after 10 p.m. Sunday, according to Naher, manager of the cemetery... He estimated that damages totaling between $5,000 and $10,000 had mounted from the vandalism, which must have occurred sometime Sunday evening after the cemetery locked its gates at 8. Some of the headstones were overturned, others were cracked. I stopped counting after 50, Naher said... Fifteen of the cemetery's oldest gravestones were broken, Naher said. This cemetery was started in 1867 and is the burial site of Henry Johnson, founder of Johnson City... Some of the markers were cemented to a heavy base, and when the gravestones were turned over, the whole thing came up out of the ground." -- Betty Jane Hylton Co-coordinator, Washington County, TN TNGenWeb Page http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnwashin Editor, Watauga Association of Genealogists Bulletin