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Article: Wilderness cemetery: Lacey's Spring residents want new care for old burial ground.
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- Decatur Daily (Decatur, AL)
- Article date:
- August 19, 2006
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Byline: Ronnie Thomas
Aug. 19--LACEY'S SPRING -- Larry Thomson and his wife, Margaret, drove along a wagon trail off McCutcheon Loop Road toward a tree grove surrounded by a cotton field.A soldier's tombstone, a lone sentinel, stood guard above scrub brush on the southern perimeter of the 2-acre plot.
Peering between oak and hickory trees, and over stubby redbuds strangled by wildflowers, weeds, briers and ferns, they saw Cpl. David Lee Turner wasn't alone.They spotted another tombstone. And then another.
The Thomsons, 20-year residents of Lacey's Spring, thought they had uncovered a grand site in their historic community that time ...