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From: "mannannan" <>
Subject: Re: [STATE-COORD] Destruction of Kings Creek Plantation Cemetery
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 17:49:14 -0400
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If anyone is near that location, please take a digital camera and preserve
whatever is available there to be preserved.

There is an old cemetery in Cobb County on Canton Road at Shallowford Road
that is not well taken care of and I fear that developers will do the same.
The owner will not let anyone on that property to take care of it or to even
photograph the graves as she fears that it would devalue the property for
future sale.

I am trying to get ALL of Cobb County's cemeteries online.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~gacobb/

Richard





---------- Original Message -----------
From: "Shari Handley" <>
To:
Sent: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 11:49:45 -0500
Subject: [STATE-COORD] Destruction of Kings Creek Plantation Cemetery

> It is so upsetting when developers (or anyone, for that matter)
> desecrates an old cemetery. Please read the note below for news of
> an historic Eastern Shore Virginia cemetery that is threatened by
> the developer of a gated residential golf and retirement community.
> Be sure to click on the link and look at the pictures showing the appalling
> condition of the cemetery. For a view of what it looked like one
> year ago, see
> http://www.esva.net/ghotes/virtualcems/kcreek/images/kc00011.jpg .
>
> What a tragedy. These people should be ashamed of themselves. They
> have a web site at http://www.bay-creek.com/ . . . maybe we as
> genealogists ought to send our comments to them.
>
> Shari Handley
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [mailto:]
> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 10:32 AM
> To:
> Subject: [LDR] Re: Destruction of Kings Creek Plantation Cemetery
>
> Fellow LDR'ers
>
> I am forwarding this information from the GHOTES (Genealogy and History
> of
> the Eastern Shore) mailing list. Apparently the developer has plans
> to destroy the cemetery, either directly or through malign neglect.
>
> >Folks,
> >
> >On Saturday I took a few photos of the current state of Kings Creek
> >Plantation Cemetery, Cape Charles, Virginia -- the one that is
> threatened
> >by the developers of Bay Creek.
> >
> >The photos are in the Virtual Cemetery, Kings Creek Plantation, or here
> >is the direct link:
>
> >    http://www.esva.net/ghotes/virtualcems/kcreek/extra1.htm
>
> >If you compare those shots with those taken a year ago, you will easily
> >discern the difference.  The fence has been pulled back as if to make
> >way for someone to come in, perhaps a backhoe.
> >
> >The stones are in poor shape.
> >
> >Wayne Stith
>
> If you'd care to comment, the developer has a website at Bay Creek -
> - A gated residential golf and retirement community on the Eastern
> Shore of Virginia
>
> The Cemetery contains burials of members of the Stith, Stratton, and
> Wescoat
> families.
>
> C. R. V. Hall,
> Snow Hill
>
> ==== LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS Mailing List ====
> Your Delaware USGenWeb Site:
> http://www.degenweb.org/
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