The City of Parsons discussed options for the Corrick Cemetery at White Gables during their June 17th meeting. The agenda item was raised by Council Member Melissa Jones.
“This is the Corrick Family Cemetery,” Jones said.
The site, situated on City owned land, has historical significance, Jones stated. Jones asked the Council if the City wished to clean up the area or try to get grant funding to restore the cemetery. Relocation of the graves was not an option to the Council.
Jones said she would like to see Mausoleum erected at the cemetery to house cremains. The City Cemetery does not have room for a Mausoleum, the Council discussed, but there is room at the Corrick Cemetery to erect one on the 50 acre site with 3.97 acres at the White Gables property alone.
“The only place we could put it would be at the maintenance garage and you’re going to have a lot drainage issues and build up the ground to get it leveled,” Jones said of the City Cemetery.
Council Member Tim Turner said the Council explored the option of a Mausoleum at the City Cemetery previously.
“I think we need to clean up that entire property…there where White Gables used to set, all those trees growing up and that brush growing up and clean up the cemetery as we do that because it is an eyesore when you first come into town,” Turner said.
City Manager Michael Simmons said he would reach out to County Administrator Shelia DeVilder about the grant the County received to restore the Cemetery at Camp Kidd.
The matter was referred to the Cemetery Committee to coordinate with Simmons on the project.
Jones provided the Council with a list of known burials at the site. Two graves are marked with nine unmarked:
- William Corrick, 9/10/1800 – 4/24/1882
- Deborah (Marteney) Corrick, 4/30/1808 – 5/01/1889
- Joseph Marteney Corrick, 2/02/1841 – 8/11/1861 (died of fever)
- David Corrick, 7/15/1848 – 8/7/1861 (drowned)
- Jetson Corrick, 5/15/1847 – 5/25/1850
- Elias Corrick, 7/12/1853 – 4/30/1862 (burned to death)
- Sampson Phillips, 1841 (Germany) – 7/13/1861 (killed at Corricks Ford Battle CSA and interred in Corricks’ Cemetery. Pvt. Co. H 23rd VA Reg – a sharpshooter)
- Pvt. Chaplet (Confederate Sharpshooter) no dates provided
