My grandmother ,Mary E. Smith, is buried in Oak Hill cemetery. We were able to find this out, unfortunately for us hers was one of the many in this cemetery that are unmarked so it is even sadder that the ones there had to be torn up by vandals...Susan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Betty Jane Hylton" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 8:30 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 > >