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On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Anne Evans <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
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> DANVILLE, VA. July 1, 2013 – A coalition of black and white descendants of
> families associated with the Fearn Plantation area in Danville, Va., the
> last capital of the Confederacy, have issued a letter urging thousands of
> their kin and other advocates to protest the city’s plans to disrupt the
> graves at Fearn Burying Ground found on the property, without proper
> study and erection of a memorial.
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> The city wants to convey the entire site to a Chinese company for
> development as a furniture-assembly plant. As the nation commemorates the
> 150th anniversaries of the Emancipation Proclamation and many milestones of
> the Civil War, destruction of such an important piece of American and
> Virginian history is an outrage and a disservice to the memories of
> Danville’s pioneer families and the enslaved people who made the city
> “the World’s Best Tobacco Market,” organizers said.
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Why would they not have to remove and rebury at some other suitable site
SINCE IT IS A KNOWN GRAVEYARD. That is what Va Power had to do when they
put in the big dam and had to relocate a lot of graves including my
Revolutionary War Ancestor in Bedford County.
--
Douglas Burnett
Satellite Beach
FL
As a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists (APG), the
National Genealogical Society (NGS), the Florida State Genealogical
Society(FSGS) and the Virginia Genealogical Society(VGS), I support and
adhere to the APG's Code of Ethics.
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