cemeteries - Danny Lee Blanton & Mary Jordan Prince
Subject: cemeteries
From: Danny Lee Blanton & Mary Jordan Prince
Date: May 17, 1999

We were all outraged at the destruction and desecration in Patterson
Cemetery. We could not understand why these young people did such a
thing. Well it is not always the young or foolish. Sometimes it can be
the upstanding people in our communities. The overanxious developer, a
greedy farmer or someone just does not care as long as they are not his
relatives. Case in point.

When I was young I remember these glistening white and marble tombstones
sitting in a cemetery out in the middle of a field. Even as a young lad
I noticed that each year is seemed there were fewer stones and  wondered
if the few dollars made from a few more bushels of soybeans or corn was
that great. To the best of my memory there were 20-25 graves. This week
I surveyed this cemetery looking for relatives and to put it on the
Brunswick Genweb site. To my dismay there were only 5 stones left.
Someone had put steel posts and a chain around the remaining stones,
but, to a large tractor they weren't much resistance and so one of them
had been knocked down. We the genealogists need to watch the cemeteries,
especially those that seem to be abandoned. For  us they are a gold mine
of information that once lost are irreplaceable.

here it is,
Danny


Beck Cemetery

Located in Brunswick County on US 17, 3/4 mile north of NC/SC State Line
on west 
side of US 17 in a field. Easily accesible but unkept and overgrown.

surveyed on 12 May 1999 by Danny Lee Blanton

1. Beck, Edna M    28 Jun 1912  -  11 Jan 1930

2. Beck, Della Virginia	   30 Aug 1921  -  15 Oct 1921

3. Beck, Lula P	    26 Feb 1910  -  5 Jun 1925

4. Beck, P M	14 Feb 1866  -  21 Sep 1925

5. Carter, Snatha  w/o Murry Beck    13 Aug 1877  -  13 Jun 1943

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