Monthly Archives: July 2017
August 2017 Fire Eaters Meeting
Tree Removal – Oakwood Cemetery
Monday July 24 , 2017
Edmund Ruffin Fire Eaters Camp 3000
Graves & Monuments Committee
Chairman Jim Tingle and member Herb Carver removed a small tree from atop grave markers in Confederate section (D) also picked up trash in Confederate section (A) as well as give assistance to two ladies from Georgia looking for a Confederate ancestor.
July 2017 – The First Shot
Hot off the Presses!!
The July edition of The First Shot is ready.
Edmund Ruffin’s Grave Site
Chairman Jim Tingle
Graves & Monuments Committee
Vandalism at Oakwood
7/13/2017 Oakwood: Vandals ripped the flags off from more than 50 stick flags that were placed on the graves of our Confederate veterans. What you see, in the photo, here is just some of the damage that was was done.
Herb and I were able to replace a majority of the flags that were vandalized, but ran out of flags so were unable to replace them all.
Graves & Monuments Committee
Jim Tingle, Chairman
Grave Committee Report
Tuesday July 18, 2017
Members of the Edmund Ruffin Fire Eaters camp 3000 Graves & monuments committee, went to the family grave site of Edmund Ruffin to clean headstones and replace tattered and or fadded flags. Upon their arrival and to their dismay a large tree limb had fallen across the fence that borders the grave site. The damage, if any, to any of the headstones can not be determind until the limb is removed Tuesday July 18 , 2017. We will have the equipment and volunteers on site at that time.
Graves & Monuments Chairman, Jim Tingle