Betty, How sad that things like that happen. In an old cemetery here in Dallas, TX. were my great- grandfather, who died in 1892 is bury it has happen twice. The first time my great-grandfather's stone was broken off, but the second the stone was taken. I'm now going to have to replace it or his grave will be lose to future generation. Cindy White -----Original Message----- From: Betty Jane Hylton <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 7:31 PM Subject: [TNWASHIN] Oak Hll Cemetery >>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 > >