Comments on: City to Establish Committee Dedicated to Memorializing Unmarked Graves at Capital City Club

By: Jerry Kimbro

Jerry Kimbro — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 06:45:51 +0000

How do we know it isn’t a cow or something? Dig a grave up. Get some DNA and find out what and who is buried there!

By: MIB

MIB — Thu, 15 Oct 2020 22:15:47 +0000

What I don’t see:
How are they identifying the remains? Are they going to do DNA tests?
mtDNA can be recovered & sequenced going back at least 30K years, now. Y-DNA & autosomal not so far back, but usually far beyond 90 years in most cases.

Oetsi, the ice man, found at the southern edge of the alps in South Tyrol, just north of the Vinzgau/Vintschgau/Val Senales, was partially sequenced, along with what species he was in the process of making a new bow out of, what he ate for breakfast, what he used to make his clothing, what kinds of grass he used to insulate his shoes… and hence where he had been in his last day & weeks…and this despite the gross mishandling of his remains by local authorities.

By: TallahasseeeHistorian

TallahasseeeHistorian — Thu, 15 Oct 2020 19:47:31 +0000

The cemetery is almost certainly related to the Houstoun plantation, which once spanned all of what is today Country Club Estates, Myers Park, and Indianhead Acres. A family descendent remembers seeing the graves before the golf course was expanded in 1936. You can read the history here:

http://www.wooddrives.com/assets/HoustounPlantationCemetery_04-19-2019.pdf

By: Reed Mahoney

Reed Mahoney — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 13:59:08 +0000

This seems simple. Thirty-five years remaining on the lease, at $1.00 per year?
Surely someone at City Hall can fork over $35.00. Then, the citizens can decide how to proceed.

By: Roger

Roger — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 01:57:59 +0000

The remote sensing anomalies should be ground-truthed before any final decisions are made. There are many subsurface features that look like graves in GPR data, including tree roots. It’s highly unlikely there as many unmarked graves as are being interpreted by the NPS.

By: dave

dave — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 13:25:47 +0000

What if they spend a lot of time and money only to find that the graves are confederate soldiers? Wouldn’t that be a laugh.

By: Snidely Whiplash

Snidely Whiplash — Sun, 11 Oct 2020 14:47:29 +0000

Pandering 100% pandering.
Now somebody find a real and compassionate solution.
But first dont you think you elected pandering folks should confirm what’s under those “grave like deperesions”?
No Snidely we prefer to pander.

By: Hope

Hope — Sun, 11 Oct 2020 13:41:14 +0000

Why don’t they mark the graves properly and compassionately? Create a Memorial out of respect and do not try to hide it; then maintain it in perpetuity?

The city does not need to buy it as the city does not have the funds or the need.

We do need to respect gravesites and walk back and correct our errors of the past.

When the property was first sold and developed were the gravesites noted on the survey?

By: Celtic Kat

Celtic Kat — Sat, 10 Oct 2020 03:58:53 +0000

I worked at Capital City Country Club (CCCC) from 1991-2005. During that time, the management, Board of Directors and most members knew about the possibility of the graves’ existence since it was brought to our attention by a FAMU professor (whose name escapes me – Charles U. is all I remember). Erecting signs about the site and fencing it off was suggested but never followed through. The Democrat often gets the history of CCCC and its arrangement with the City regarding the lease incomplete, if not incorrect. As far as CCCC being in “dire staits”, it is a member owned club that employs a management company to run it. CCCC has been “in the red” for the last 35 years (or more).

By: Edward Lyle

Edward Lyle — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 22:21:25 +0000

Why do I get the feeling that sometimes life imitates art?… can you say Poltergeist?

“ You moved the cemetery, but you left the bodies, didn’t you?! You son of a bitch, you left the bodies and you only moved the headstones! YOU ONLY MOVED THE HEADSTONES! WHY?! WHY?! “