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Letter: Squires Cemetery Comments re: Squires Cemetery on the move to new home By Darryl Smith The headstone in the Bobby Morrison photo op belongs to Molly Squires Harmon. She was born December 2, 1862 in Columbia and died June 22, 1888 in Louisville. Fortunately the grave location has been documented and photographed since it is in danger of being destroyed for "progress". Maybe the board can find descendants that will give permission to relocate the graves, but how do they propose finding/moving the unmarked graves in the cemetery (there are at least 2)? Pretend that they aren't there? I see this turning into a typical "dig up a shovelful of dirt, throw it in a box, rebury it and call it good" desecration operation that most government cemetery "relocations" devolve into (here's looking at you, Army Corps of Engineers). The cemetery was there long before the Commerce Park. If it's a problem now it was a problem then; if it is a potential deal-killer then the property shouldn't have been acquired in the first place. If I'm not mistaken, the cemetery appears to be located close to the park's North boundary line. It seems that a simpler solution would be to simply redraw the boundary, put the tiny cemetery parcel on the tax rolls as "exempt" as many old cemeteries are, and be done with it. Maybe some cultures don't want to be located directly on a hallowed burial ground, but surely being in proximity to one shouldn't be a problem. I can't imagine any future CP plant manager wants to be the "right here (stamps foot on factory floor), there used to be folks buried here but we dug them out in the name of widget production" guy. Just my humble opinion, FWIW. --Darryl Smith This story was posted on 2023-04-25 16:25:16
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