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At nrst, ittamiitonj wanted to put up some kind of huge monument in there. He is nothing but a troublemaker.’’
One reason Hamilton might have been considered a troublemaker is that he wasn’t willing to stop with landscaping his ancestral cemetery. From the beginning, Hamilton asked both previous owner Wiliam Parker and Rodgers to concede a ten foot easement all around the cemetery along with the access road. The easement would allow the descendants of those interred in Lawson to preserve their cemetery without fearing future incursions by Rodgers or future property owners. This type of easement is a standard recommendation of the Virginia Department of Historic Preservation in cases of cemeteries located on private property.
According to Hamilton, Rodgers had flatly rejected this plan, along with others that included Hamilton offering to swap property elsewhere in the county for the cemetery. However, that all changed at Tuesday’s meeting. BOS.
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