Item:
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Approval Request to Relocation of all Graves within the Abandoned Cemetery Identified as the "Emory Cemetery."
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Date of BOCC Meeting April 8, 2024
Request for Board Action:
Agenda Text
The Board is requested to approve the relocation of all graves within the abandoned cemetery identified as the "Emory Cemetery" under the supervision of the Health Director or the Health Director's designee pursuant to NCGS 65-106.
The Board previously approved the relocation of five (5) particular gravesites within Emory Cemetery (Action Item 23-0854, 12/11/2023). The subsequent discovery of additional graves was not expected, and so this additional request for approval applies the additional seventeen (17) graves located within Emory Cemetery.
The request for Board approval is being made pursuant to NCGS 65-106 by the current property owner JOHN G. UPCHURCH (Deed Book 9967, Page 285-287) to provide for perpetual care, safer access, protection from further vandalism, and interment of all decedents interred in Emory Cemetery in a cemetery more suitable to their memory and proper care. The gravesites are proposed to be disinterred from the current location at 3014 Carpenter Pond Rd, Raleigh, NC 27613 (Durham County) to be reinterred in a perpetual care cemetery pursuant to the direction and supervision of the Health Director or the Health Director's designee.
Alignment with Strategic Plan: This item aligns with Strategic Goal 5 - Accountable, Efficient and Visionary Government.
Resource Persons: Rodney Jenkins, MHA, Public Health Director and Patrick C. Eaton, REHS, Onsite Water Protection Supervisor
County Manager's Recommendation: The County Manager recommends that the Board approve relocation of the seventeen (17) additional gravesites located within the abandoned cemetery identified as the "Emory Cemetery," that the relocation shall take place under the supervision of the Health Director or Health Director's designee pursuant to NCGS 65-106.
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