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Ashe County cemetery committee reports mapping, volunteer drives and urgent sites after storms
Summary
The county cemetery committee updated the board on extensive mapping work, use of ground-penetrating radar to locate graves, adoption efforts, volunteer activity and storm-related damage to several remote cemeteries.
Members of the Ashe County Cemetery Committee briefed the Board of Commissioners on inventory, volunteer coordination and storm impacts to historic burial sites across the county.
Committee members said they have visited roughly 392 cemeteries and located 1,181 burial sites in the county's records. They reported cleaning 44 cemeteries, and 19 of those have identified local adopters who will maintain the sites going forward. Committee members said they are limiting cleanups to cemeteries that have…
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