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Connecticut-native Kenneth Sawyer said that this large stone
marker wasnât visible when he first moved into his Murfreesboro
home last August. It was covered behind masses of overgrowth and
tree saplings. He, Rutherford County Historical Society member
James Allen Gooch and President of the New England Historic
Cemetery Restoration Project, Inc. Michael Passmore have put in the
work to restore the family burial site of the Carothers and
Fletchers over the last few months.
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Rutherford County Historical Society member James Allen Gooch
demonstrates witching, a âlow-techâ process used to locate graves
in the cemetery. The same process was once used to locate sites for