| Camp 2034 Places Signs on Area Cemeteries |
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Here is the article listed on The Tennessean website. Click this link to view the article on tennessean.com Private Paul Beech Co. H 20th TN. Inf Reg, CSA & Private William Hughes Co. B 24th TN. Inf. Reg, CSA are buried in the Beech-Hughes Cemetery in unmarked graves. Camp 2034 has VA markers for both of them and will plan a memorial service to place them, date undecided. |
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Thursday, 12/13/07
Veterans group seeks help with neglected cemeteriesFrom Staff Reports
FAIRVIEW — Members of Capt. Ed Baxter Camp 2034 Sons of Confederate Veterans in Fairview have purchased and are placing signs at area family cemeteries where Confederate soldiers are buried. According to camp historian Larry Stinson, people from all over the country come to this area seeking the burial sites of their ancestors while doing family genealogy. Having signs at the cemeteries will give the researchers and others the name of the cemetery. Like other areas, many of the rural family cemeteries in Fairview are overgrown and neglected. Several have been destroyed by development or "farmed over." Camp member Carl Walker Sr. calls the condition of family cemeteries a social tragedy. "People are too busy to take time to care for their ancestors' grave sites and many will not donate money for cemetery upkeep." Members of Camp 2034 try to clean up a few area cemeteries each year and would like to enlist more community support for the project. Signs have been purchased for these cemeteries: Taylor, Walker, Joe & Sack Lampley, Rials-Sullivan, Hall, Hay, Beech-Hughes, Brown-Chester, Ivey and Overby. For information on the SCV cemetery project, contact Dennis Lampley at 799-0916.
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