Cash’s home up for historic mark
CHARLES MANSON’S grandson isn’t giving up his plan to claim and bury the mass murderer, even after GoFundMe pulled the plug on his fund-raising website Thursday.
“If we can’t raise money with GoFundMe, we’ll find another way. It will definitely be a group effort. It’s not just one person, it’s a lot of people holding hands,” Jason Freeman told the Daily News.
Freeman, 41, said he was on a Thanksgiving walk in the woods of Ohio when he learned the crowd-sourcing page set up by his friend John Jones was deactivated.
The fund-raiser reached $979 of its $15,000 goal before GoFundMe shut it down. It was meant to cover the legal, travel and burial fees associated with claiming Manson’s remains in California.
The notorious cult leader, 83, died Nov. 20 in a California hospital. He spent more than 45 years in prison for directing his troubled Manson Family followers to murder seven people in California in 1969. Among their victims was actress Sharon Tate, the pregnant wife of director Roman LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The boyhood home of country-music icon Johnny Cash is being considered as a nominee for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Arkansas Historic Preservation Program’s review board is to meet Wednesday to consider 14 state properties for nomination to the list of the nation’s historic places, including the Cash home that was built in 1934 in Dyess in northeastern Arkansas, about 30 miles northwest of Memphis, Tennessee.
The house and 40 acres were provided to the Cash family as part of a federal government economic recovery program during the Great Depression.
Preservation Program spokesman Mark Christ told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that a final decision on whether the property is included on the list will be made by the National Park Service.
Cash was born in 1932 in Kingsland, Arkansas, according to the official website devoted to the musician. His family later moved to Dyess.