A good start at Evergreen Cemetery
The Penny Cemetery Fund’s big clean-up at Evergreen Cemetery was today. A rotating set of volunteers and a dedicated crew of men with chainsaws & a wood-chipper reclaimed at least a half-acre from the dense forest covering most of the 60+ acre cemetery. One of the more than 30 graves uncovered today was that of A.D.Price of the historic Jackson Ward funeral home.
[...] of the graves reclaimed from the forrest during a clean-up today at Evergreen Cemetery in the East End was that of A.D.Price, who founded the A.D.Price Funeral Home. Maggie Walker and John Mitchell Jr. [...]
Thanks to all of you that came out. You and MC Hernandez’s crew were amazing.
A little slide show of the day – look close for our hero, John Murden taking on one section.
http://studiowolf.jalbum.net/evergreen3/
The RTD today has a piece on the clean-up and a slide show of images from around the cemetery:
Great pictures from the day from Mike Lynaugh Photographer:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikelynaugh/sets/72157622633062871/show/
http://www.flickr.com/groups/evergreen_cemetery/pool/show/with/4084081506/
Wasn’t the Maggie Walker site already reclaimed last year by another volunteer group?
They deserve a shout out too.
Agree – they deserve a BIG shut out. John Shuck, David Darnell plus scores of volunteers have been chipping away at the cemetery for a couple of years.
Maggie Walker’s site was the nicest I’ve seen it since I’ve been going there. They did an incredible job out there the weekend of the 24th.
The photos are incredible. Many, many thanks to all of those folks who are taking on the herculean task of cleaning up Evergreen. I hope more people will help!
I like to thank John, David and all of the volunteers for their efforts. My great-great grandparents, W.I. Johnson are buried in Evergreen.
The follow-up cleanup scheduled for today is cancelled because of the weather.
There are companies that will pay for timber, it might be worthwhile looking into that, it may defray some of the cost.
My memory is that another group wanted to take this over, and demanded that the Penny Cemetary Fund back away. Has any work been done since then?
Reply to comment #11 “another group wanted to take over. . . and demanded that Penny Cemetary Fund back away.” I would like to know who this group was. As coordination or the restoration efforts any gruop that approaches must speak and get approval from us. In addition, any group that is claiming to raise any monies on behalf of the cemetery must submit a proposal for our approval. This is standard policy within any governmental, or non-profit organization. We have yet to receive a proposal from the Penny Fund on their intent and purpose for any monies that they are claiming to raise on behalf of the cemetery.
Regarding comment #10 we have had timber companies to come out and inspect the timber, they had a species name for the wood, but as you can see it is still there.