Possibilities exist if looking for solutions

Mr. Phillip Patterson city administrator, with all due respect, in response to your comments about driving by Hico Cemetery and not seeing people “milling around”… that is not an accurate indication that people don’t go by there and spend a few minutes there.

As a distant relative of the people there, I can tell you it is a place to come and stand where you know your people once stood. It would be much better if the site was original, so you’re at the exact location of the grave and not just a place where the stones had been moved to.

As genealogy is becoming more and more main stream there may come a time when you see more distant family members there. It’ll

be a shame for them to learn that first the stones were moved and then the grave areas were paved over with cement almost 40 some years later.

People should ask themselves how they would feel if Oak Hill all of a sudden had a sidewalk added down the middle of it right over graves too, with of course, the stones being moved before hand. Maybe it would have been better to attempt to move the stones back in place over their correct grave using your GPR and done away with some of the “Round Memorial” area or built

a guard rail and the wide sidewalk on the outer edge so that the cemetery could be left in peace and your citizens safe on their walks or a one-way street in that area so that there would be more room for a wide side walk.

Lots of possibilities exist if one looks for alternate solutions. Not everyone would be happy I’m sure. But at least one less “old thing” would be tossed aside or tore down in the name of progress.