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The Final Report on the excavation of Vernon Hall Cemetery
~REPORTS: Location of Gov. Caswell's Grave?
Close up views of the caskets (photos compliments of Dr. Ewen)
Nov. 8, 2000, Day 2 of the Excavation
The Excavaton Begins! Dr. Ewen and students Oct. 28, 2000 (photos by Ted Sampley)
List members who attended "The Dig" on Oct 28, 2000
Ted Sampley showing where another vault was discovered 35 years ago 10/27/2000
Searching for Richard Caswell's Grave
October 23, 2000
July 20 2000
1913 Newspaper Article "Owns Grave of Richard Caswell"
Save the Cemetery Plea from Susan Hoffman
ECU Researchers Want to Excavate Land to Find Caswell's Grave KINSTON, N.C. (AP)
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24 May 2000 I am asking for all the Caswell
descendants (and others interested) of RICHARD CASWELL
and CHRISTIAN DALLAM (originally of England and Maryland
to North Carolina) and their family, most notable their
son RICHARD CASWELL JR. (first Governor of North
Carolina) and wives MARY MACKILWEAN and SARAH HERITAGE to
come together to help save three cemeteries from any
further development and desecration. The situation is appalling and
sickening to say the very least. One cemetery, the state
has allowed part of it to be paved over for a parking lot
for a medical office, another lies between an empty lot
and broken down boarded up house without fence or safe
guard of the graves and the site for Richard Caswell's
grave site at the Caswell Memorial is missing part of the
land now owned by a packing plant I believe (still
investigating the deeds). There is more to the story, if
you want further information or names and addresses to
write to, please email me. I am Richard Caswell Jr's 5th
great! grand-daughter and I will be darned if I let this
disgraceful situation last any longer!
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