Alan: The timberman was prosecuted..but he was killed by a drunken driver before the case was settled..several thousand dollars was received by a group of family members...(which is in a CD for the cemetery's benefit) In 1977, my grandfather was buried there..I became active in getting a public road up to the site. The late James Record and Dr.Francis Roberts assited me with getting the cemetery and Town of New Market on the Ala Historical Register..in 1989..this project "taught" me quite abit of Madison County history.. Sadly..our nonprofit corporation can't keep the large six acre site "cleaned up"! more than 400 gravesites with as many as 200 slave graves are there..about 135 markers remain.. Recently, the County Commission opened up a public road to the site.. all the way to the top of the old "graveyard hill"...and most of the cemetery is cleared of brush,etc. We are trying to decide what to do with the oldest part of the cemetery...Charles Rice told me years ago that he thought some of the oldest, unmarked graves were soldiers from the War of 1812...it's so sad...just row upon row of sunken graves...as the large spring below the hill and campground on Mountain Fork Creek dates back to Andrew Jackson days..(letter's indicate he camped there)..and with all the Indian artifacts on the "hill"...could the cemetery also be the burial ground for the early Native Americans? I located church minutes of the Mount Paran Cumberland Prebysterian Chruch for early as 1838..at Memphis, TN..then Samuel Davis deeded the six acres, including the campground to the CPC at New Market in 1842.. It's so difficult to maintain such a large area.. hopefully, we will be able to get placement on the National Register of Historic Places.. and maybe some funding.. as most of the old families have died out... we also plan to place a Confederate flag in one area..near the almost 20 soldiers graves.. Many of the old slave graves have "handmade markers"..and several descendants are buried there all the way to WWII..one with a purple heart even! Any ideas on preservation would be appreciated... Thanks alot for this wonderful site!!