{"id":412,"date":"2010-07-06T09:03:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T13:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/searching-for-a-marker-from-the-korean-war.html"},"modified":"2010-07-06T09:03:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-06T13:03:00","slug":"searching-for-a-marker-from-the-korean-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/searching-for-a-marker-from-the-korean-war.html","title":{"rendered":"Searching for a Marker from the Korean War"},"content":{"rendered":"Continuing the search commissioned by the widow Joyce Feazell\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2010\/07\/a-request-from-an-old-friend-find-me-a-tombstone.html\">\nfor a tombstone\nnoted by her late husband, John Feazell,<\/a>\non a propaganda pamphlet dropped by the North Koreans in Korea about 1952.\nPreviously we determined the tombstone was real.\nSo where is it?\n<p>\nRemember the front of the pamphlet gave a location for the tombstone.\nA bit of work with google maps showed the highway between\nBloomingdale and Pooler would be US 80.\nSo far, so good. Let&#8217;s try to narrow it down.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe deceased&#8217;s last name was Horning,\nand there is something called\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.epodunk.com\/cgi-bin\/genInfo.php?locIndex=84804\">\nHorning Memorial Cemetery<\/a> near Bloomingdale.\nBut that&#8217;s not on US 80; it&#8217;s on US 17 between Bloomingdale and I-16.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&#038;source=s_q&#038;hl=en&#038;geocode=&#038;q=horning+memorial+cemetery,+bloomingdale,+ga&#038;sll=31.004404,-83.273431&#038;sspn=0.047746,0.081282&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;hq=horning+memorial+cemetery,&#038;hnear=Bloomingdale,+Chatham,+Georgia&#038;t=h&#038;ll=32.114022,-81.322415&#038;spn=0.001474,0.00254&#038;z=14&#038;iwloc=A&#038;cid=16151343779853222907&#038;output=embed\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"350\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"425\"><\/iframe><br><small><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&#038;source=embed&#038;hl=en&#038;geocode=&#038;q=horning+memorial+cemetery,+bloomingdale,+ga&#038;sll=31.004404,-83.273431&#038;sspn=0.047746,0.081282&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;hq=horning+memorial+cemetery,&#038;hnear=Bloomingdale,+Chatham,+Georgia&#038;t=h&#038;ll=32.114022,-81.322415&#038;spn=0.001474,0.00254&#038;z=14&#038;iwloc=A&#038;cid=16151343779853222907\" style=\"color: #0000ff; text-align: left;\">View Larger Map<\/a><\/small>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThat might be the right location, but even though\n<a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&#038;source=s_q&#038;hl=en&#038;geocode=&#038;q=horning+memorial+cemetery,+bloomingdale,+ga&#038;sll=31.004404,-83.273431&#038;sspn=0.047746,0.081282&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;hq=horning+memorial+cemetery,&#038;hnear=Bloomingdale,+Chatham,+Georgia&#038;ll=32.113967,-81.321906&#038;spn=0.001474,0.00254&#038;t=h&#038;z=19\">\ngoogle maps<\/a>\nhas pretty good resolution there for both satellite and streetview\nimages, the stone doesn&#8217;t appear to be there.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAh, but the book\n<\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n<a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=YRVswe0eCQwC&#038;pg=PA40&#038;lpg=PA40&#038;dq=%22incompetent,+greedy,+confused%22+bloomingdale,+georgia&#038;source=bl&#038;ots=t4uAeGtEZS&#038;sig=Be3Knwc2vxU2MxVrVDp0Qlh0UMg&#038;hl=en&#038;ei=SFQITKzZJ8H68Aa83dl4&#038;sa=X&#038;oi=book_result&#038;ct=result&#038;resnum=1&#038;ved=0CBYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&#038;q=%22incompetent%2C%20greedy%2C%20confused%22%20bloomingdale%2C%20georgia&#038;f=false\">\nSentimental Savannah: Reflections on a Southern City&#8217;s Past<\/a>,\nby Polly Powers Stramm says:\n<blockquote>\n&#8216;Longtime county residents may remember that the marker ordered by\nJudge Horning stood for many years in Bloomingdale alongside U.S. 80.\nWhen the highway was widened, Robers said, the marker was moved to\nthe stretch of Bloomingdale Road between Interstate 16 and U.S. 80. Later,\nthe imposing piece of granite was relocated to Gravel Hill Cemetery.&#8217;\n<\/blockquote>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.findagrave.com\/cgi-bin\/fg.cgi?page=cr&#038;CRid=34195&#038;CScn=gravel+hill+cemetery&#038;CScntry=4&#038;CSst=12&#038;\">\n<img decoding=\"async\"  src=\"http:\/\/image1.findagrave.com\/photos250\/photos\/2009\/170\/CEM47036562_124552634999.jpg\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.findagrave.com\/cgi-bin\/fg.cgi?page=cr&#038;CRid=34195&#038;CScn=gravel+hill+cemetery&#038;CScntry=4&#038;CSst=12&#038;\">\nFindagrave.com<\/a> actually doesn&#8217;t find that name there,\nbut findagrave&#8217;s listings are supplied by users,\nand given that this stone is referred to in the book only as a marker,\nnot an actual tombstone, the likelihood is that there is no body\nunder it.\nIn which case that marker might not be included even if a census\nof the cemetery is complete.\n<p>\nSo I told Joyce that Gravel Hill Cemetery was the most likely location.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nShe wanted to see, <a href=\"\/blog\/2010\/07\/lets-see-the-marker-from-the-korean-war.html\">\nand called in a field agent.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Continuing the search commissioned by the widow Joyce Feazell for a tombstone noted by her late husband, John Feazell, on a propaganda pamphlet dropped by the North Koreans in Korea about 1952. Previously we determined the tombstone was real. So where is it? Remember the front of the pamphlet gave a location for the tombstone. 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