No, it is not and it needs a better key to be useful to the public.
Kay
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Is that map up on the Internet?
On 8/8/2012 1:58 PM, Kay Peninger wrote:
> Craig,
>
> Many of the tombstones at St. John's Church have been moved, lost,
> removed, or destroyed by man or the environment, over the years.
> Samual Mordacai writes of the state of disarray of the graveyard in
> his book, Richmond in Bygone Years.
>
> There are no cemetery records from that era and a map was not done
> until a project by a VCU history department intern in 2005.
>
> We can't say that it is "likely" because we don't have any evidence to
> prove this one way or the other.
>
> Best,
> Kay Peninger
> Executive Director
> St. John's Church Foundation
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Craig Kilby
> Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2012 12:25 PM
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> Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] War of 1812 Service for Charles Wills
>
> Eric,
>
> Mike Lyman writes to me that (1) if your Charles Wills was a wealthy
> merchant, why does he not have a tombstone? and (2) if you contact St.
> John's cemetery and they can say it is at least "likely" he is buried
> there, he will include him in the revised Addendum for the book.
>
> Contact information at St. John's is:
>
> Judith Bowen-Sherman 804 649-7938 website
> www.historicstjohnschurch.org
>
> Craig
>
>
>
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