Name:   Lifer - Subject:   Lake History Date:   8/10/2016 11:46:55 AM

All true diver.  They paid a local mortician $10 per grave to seek permission and move the Graves.  At the time the best funeral offered was $2. Hundreds of Graves were moved.  He got wealthy. The Graves on graveyard island were left because they were above 490. Erosion has taken a huge toll on it.  It was shared up with rip rap abiut 10-12 years ago. I think, but have seen maps to confirm,  that originally it was connected to the island due South of the remnants of graveyard. It was most certainly much much larger in the past as evidenced by the shallow water and hazard bouys around it.

As for stumps,  it is my understanding that everything that would be exposed by annual drawdown had stumps removed. The drawdown then was fifty feet so basically almost all were removed.  I've seen pics of large swathes of land that looks ready to plant. This has been discussed before.  I read the whole reservoir was "clear cut". But apparently stumps were left in some areas. On the other extreme they cut nothing when Henry Neeley was built and paid dearly for it later.