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By Jed Duvall
Special to the Rappahannock News
Would you like a cemetery? All yours, all four acres, with countless (silent) neighbors?
Kenneth Kerrick of Masonic Lodge # 78 is so frustrated over the confusion about who is buried in the cemetery on the edge of the Tbwn of Washington that he sometimes blurts “you can have it, the whole thing, and the $52,000 bank account goes with it!”
Don’t rush to take Mr. Kerrick up on this offer. You Would have to spend at least ten percent of the funds on mowing every year. Nobody likes an unsightly array of concrete and marble stones, even though in many cases it is not known whose bones lie thereunder.
The four acres on the gentle slope just north of town, on the west side of the Fodderstack Road, have been home to the departed for more than a hundred years. The Masonic Lodge (Number 78 is the one that occupies the second floor of the Washington Baptist Church) has held title to two acres of the land since 1906. Later, in 1926 oF 1949, depending on how you read. the. land records, two more acres
See CEMETERY, Page A2
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