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By Bill Kossler
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Dotted about the countryside of Rappahannock County are a multitude of old family graveyards.
Right now, there are two graveyards in particular whose occupants' families are trying to preserve and protect.
Marilyn Porter Price, who currently lives in Manassas, has family in a graveyard in the area behind the Flatwood recycling center, near the old Pine Knot Inn. While the land was sold to developers, Price is investigating how she can get access to the site. This is not to say that there has been any problem. Price, who was one of the first four blacks graduating in the earliest years of integration at the then new Rappahannock County High School, is just now finding out how she needs to go about ensuring the sanctity of the site.
Dr. James G. Hamilton is in a similar situation. Hamilton's family graveyard is just over the county line, near the intersection of US-211 and Rte. 621 in Amissville. Hamilton, a retired professor of African American studies, and currently a resident of Lunenburg, Massachusetts, is trying to preserve the graveyard, arrange to keep it up, and keep it in the family. In the course of a decades long quest after his family roots, Hamilton has found American Indians, colonial era free blacks, whites, slaves and European royalty on his family tree. Now, in his retirement, Hamilton is moving to Rappahannock, where his immediate roots are.
Bom in DC, Hamilton's mother was a native of Amissville, and his
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