[UA] Update to interesting news item...

[Yiannakos]

This is getting to be an epidemic...

The question is, what're they looking for? 130 year old metal from
soldier's graves, and a General's skull? Sounds like ritual components
to me... 

Or can Clios get their buzz off of historical items as well as
locations? I forget.

And when you add in the plague of flies in a little town about a
half-hour from here , it really gets weird...

(BTW, sorry about the sucky formatting of the articles)


---Dave ('s not here man)


www.rochesternews.com/0627graves.html
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Vandals hit Groveland graves

Deep holes are found alongside caskets of Civil
War-era soldiers at Williamsburgh 

 By John Kohlstrand
 Democrat and Chronicle

 GROVELAND, N.Y. (June 27, 2000) -- Vandals have disturbed the
                      graves of two more Civil War-era veterans, one of
them descended from
                      a Rochester founder.

                      Five holes have appeared within the last two
months in the
                      Williamsburgh Cemetery off Route 63 in Groveland.
Each is 5 feet deep
                      and shaped like a casket, town historian Larry
Turner said.

                      Two holes were dug near the tombstone of Army Maj.
Fitzhugh Birney, a
                      military lawyer. Another two holes appeared near
the grave of Navy Capt.
                      Samuel Adams Lee. 

                      A fifth hole wasn't near a gravestone, Turner
said.

                      Livingston County sheriff's deputies are unsure
whether anything was
                      taken. They are checking to see whether the
incidents are related to last
                      week's theft of Civil War Gen. Elisha G.
Marshall's skull from Mt. Hope
                      Cemetery in Rochester.

                      Turner said he suspects thieves armed with metal
detectors are
                      searching for Civil War-era relics. A well
preserved belt buckle or sword
                      can be worth thousands of dollars. 

                      "They think they are going to dig up one of those
graves and find a
                      bonanza and get rich," Turner said.

                      The theft of Marshall's skull was accompanied by
Satanic symbols, but
                      the work in Groveland was not, sheriff's Maj. Jim
Szczesniak said.

                      "We don't have anything to indicate a
(relationship), but you never
                      know," said city police spokesman Carlos Garcia.

                      Birney was the son of James Birney, an
abolitionist who ran for
                      president on the Liberty Party line in 1840 and
1844. His maternal
                      grandfather was Col. William Fitzhugh, who with
Col. Nathaniel
                      Rochester and Maj. Charles Carroll bought the
Genesee River land that
                      now forms downtown Rochester.

                      Because of his family connections, Birney rose
quickly in the Army, but
                      he died of an infection in 1864 at age 22.

                      Lee wasn't so successful. When a ship's rigging
fell on his foot, doctors
                      had to amputate, Turner said.

                      Then, when recovering in hospitals, Lee became
addicted to painkillers,
                      Turner said. In 1882, Lee died of an opium
overdose.

                      Turner said he is upset about the vandalism.

                      "I want these guys stopped," Turner said. "I put
too much work into
                      these cemeteries to have them all messed up."

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